آیا مردم مایل به اشتراک نظرات سیاسی خود در فیس بوک هستند؟ بررسی نقش نگرش خودپنداری در مارپیچ سکوت

Social networking sites such as Facebook have become a major platform for American political discussion. However, publicly expressing opinions on Facebook can make individuals perceived negatively by their Facebook friends, contributing to the spiral of silence. The purpose of this study is to extend the spiral of silence framework by integrating the perspective of online self-presentation to investigate the psychological processes of Facebook users' political self-disclosure through commenting, sharing and posting behaviors. Survey data from 283 Facebook users confirmed the opinion-congruence based mechanism argued by the classic spiral of silence theory, and found that Facebook users’ willingness of online engagement in controversial issues is also related to self-presentational concern and approval-based contingency of self-worth.