نقش واسطه ای خودافشایی و نقش تعدیلی جنسیت و اضطراب اجتماعی در روابط بین ارتباطات آنلاین نوجوانان چینی و روابط دنیای واقعی آنها

Based on theory and previous research, we examined relationships among gender, social anxiety, self-disclosure, quality of real-world friendships and online communication by Chinese adolescent Internet users. Results indicated that online communication and self-disclosure are not related to quality of friendship, and online communication is positively related to self-disclosure. For adolescent boys and adolescents with high social anxiety, online communication can explain more variance in users’ self-disclosure, indicating that gender and social anxiety moderate the relationship between online communication and online self-disclosure.