Seeking safer spaces: The mitigating impact of young adults’ Facebook and Instagram audience expectations and posting type on fear of negative evaluation

作者：

Highlights：

• FNE negatively correlated with number of Facebook friends and Instagram followers.

• Comfort level with types of posts were extremely similar for Facebook and Instagram.

• Participants were more likely to imagine family as audience on Facebook vs Instagram.

• Participants expected positive yet superficial responses to posts regardless of FNE.

摘要

•FNE negatively correlated with number of Facebook friends and Instagram followers.•Comfort level with types of posts were extremely similar for Facebook and Instagram.•Participants were more likely to imagine family as audience on Facebook vs Instagram.•Participants expected positive yet superficial responses to posts regardless of FNE.

论文关键词：Facebook,Instagram,Fear of negative evaluation,Imagined audience,Expected response valence,Communication anxiety

论文评审过程：Received 21 May 2019, Revised 20 August 2019, Accepted 3 March 2020, Available online 4 March 2020, Version of Record 27 April 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106333