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JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE
Volume 206, Issue 8, Pages 598-605Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000855
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Social anxiety; toxic self-disclosures; rejection sensitivity; internet addiction
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This work aimed to explore the relationship between social anxiety with benign and toxic online self-disclosures with the mediating role of rejection sensitivity, self-regulation, and Internet addiction. In this study, 358 students who were active members of social networks at the Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Iran were evaluated in the form of a structural equation model. The results substantiated that social anxiety could explain 47% of the variance in benign online self-disclosure and 27% of toxic online self-disclosure with the mediating role of rejection sensitivity, self-regulation, and Internet addiction. It was found that people with high social anxiety had higher rejection sensitivity and lower self-regulation. Also, people with higher social anxiety had directly higher benign and toxic online self-disclosures. The results indicated that self-regulation did not have a direct impact on benign online self-disclosure; however, it had a direct negative impact on toxic online self-disclosure.
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