Online self-disclosure: Validation study of the French version of the real me on the net questionnaire
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Online self-disclosure: Validation study of the French version of the real me on the net questionnaire Marie Danet 1
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Raphaële Miljkovitch 2 & Anne-Sophie Deborde 2
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract Because online interactions are anonymous, they may facilitate self-disclosure. The Real Me on the Net questionnaire designed by Tosun and Lajunen assesses the tendency to reveal one’s inner world on the Internet rather than in face-to-face interactions. It provides information on whether participants feel more secure on the Internet in comparison to Breal-life^ interactions. The current study aims to test the construct validity of the French version of the Real Me on the Net. This study included 256 adults. Participants completed the self-report questionnaire anonymously. A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the one-factor structure described by Tosun and Lajunen (Computers in Human Behavior, 26(2), 162–167, 2010). The French version of the Real Me on the Net has good internal consistency. This study confirms the good psychometric qualities of this self-report questionnaire. This instrument can be useful in investigations on Internet use motives. Keywords Self-disclosure . Internet . Real me . Assessment . Online relationships . Anonymity
Introduction The advent of new means of communication (eg., social networks, MMORPG...) has changed the way of interacting. Consequently, they may also change the way users reveal themselves. Self-disclosure refers to the feeling one can show who she/he really is. Social interactions vary according to whether they are Bvirtual^ (online) or Breal^ (face-to-face; McKenna and Bargh 2000). The anonymous nature of online interactions enables people to have more control over their interactions as they can get connected when they want and take time to think about what they are willing to say. Anonymous and asynchronous interactions thus encourage self-disclosure and thereby give the opportunity to feel more authentic (Bargh et al. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-0003-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Marie Danet [email protected] 1
University of Lille, EA 4072 - PSITEC - Psychologie: Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition, F-59000 Lille, France
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Laboratoire Paragraphe, Equipe CRAC, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
2002). John Bargh and Katelyn McKenna refer to the concept of a BReal Me^ (Bargh et al. 2002; McKenna et al. 2002) in studying the way people self disclose. Derived from the concept of a Btrue self^ introduced by Rogers (1951), the BReal Me^ is Bthat version of self that a person believes he or she actually is, but is unable to or prevented from (for any of a variety of reasons) presenting to others in most situations^ (McKenna et al. 2002). McKenna and her colleagues (2002) developed the Real Me on the Net questionnaire based on this concept. This self-report examines how easily participants
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