Are people willing to share their political opinions on Facebook? Exploring roles of self-presentational concern in spiral of silence

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Highlights:

• Psychological processes of SNS users' political self-disclosure are examined.

• An extended spiral of silence model with a self-presentation approach is proposed.

• The opinion-congruence based mechanism argued by spiral of silence is confirmed.

• Approval-based CSW and self-presentational concern explain online expression.

• Two opposing dialectics of opinion expression on SNSs are discussed.

摘要

•Psychological processes of SNS users' political self-disclosure are examined.•An extended spiral of silence model with a self-presentation approach is proposed.•The opinion-congruence based mechanism argued by spiral of silence is confirmed.•Approval-based CSW and self-presentational concern explain online expression.•Two opposing dialectics of opinion expression on SNSs are discussed.

论文关键词:Spiral of silence,Political self-disclosure,Self-presentational concern,Approval-based contingency of self-worth

论文评审过程:Received 20 April 2017, Revised 19 July 2017, Accepted 20 July 2017, Available online 24 July 2017, Version of Record 29 July 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.07.029