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Item Metadata only Cognitive and Behavioural Concepts of Cyber Activities: Information Processing of Online Content(2013) Hadlington, L. J.; Attrill, A.; Scase, M. O.Item Metadata only Revealing only the superficial me: Exploring categorical self-disclosure online.(Elsevier, 2011) Attrill, A.; Jalil, R.Item Metadata only Self-disclosure Online(IGI Global, 2012) Attrill, A.Item Metadata only Sharing only parts of me: Selective categorical self-disclosure across internet arenas(2012-07-31) Attrill, A.Research that has considered how individuals share their personal information in online compared to offline disclosures has often demonstrated heightened and accelerated disclosures in online interactions. Recent work has shown that this acceleration may be more likely to occur for the sharing of superficial self-information in initial general online interactions. This work was extended to explore the reported content of online disclosures in four different Internet arenas, social networking, instant messaging, general communication and online shopping. Using a self-disclosure scale amongst a sample of students to measure the revelation of information pertaining to individuals’ beliefs, relationships, personal matters, interests and intimate feelings, the current findings showed that self-disclosure could be more categorical and goal-directed than can be accounted for by existing cue-impoverished and text-based explanations of online self-disclosure. Participants reported selfdisclosing significantly less on online shopping sites than in the three communications type arenas. A consistent pattern of significant differences in the sharing of superficial (interests, relationships & personal matters) and more personal or intimate (intimate feelings & beliefs) information in instant messaging, social networking and general communication, along with an absence of significant intra-categorical disclosures is in line with hyperpersonal computer-mediated communication theory in that people selectively choose which information to self-disclose online, a proposal further supported by a significant decrease from relationship to personal matters information in instant messaging. These findings imply that categorical disclosures could be mapped onto the social cognitive self-memory-system model of autobiographical memory in line with the social penetration theory of self-disclosure. The findings along with non-significant differences in reported levels of overall selfdisclosure across the Internet arenas are theoretically and empirically discussed, giving particular emphasis to considering future directions for research aiming to elucidate and explain the social cognitive processes associated with self-disclosure online.Item Metadata only Theoretical considerations and implications of current online self-disclosure research: Is it the quantity or quality of sharing that counts?(2012) Attrill, A.Revealing information about the self online is receiving both increased mass media and psychological research interest. Called self-disclosure, the sharing of personal information occurs in cyberspace via both synchronous Internet arenas such as instant messaging and asynchronous communications such as email. Whilst reciprocal self-disclosure has been considered to underlie relationship formation and maintenance in offline settings (Altman & Taylor, 1973), the sharing of self-information online has often been suggested to occur at an accelerated and more intense rate, and to often attract inappropriate communications compared to offline self-disclosure. Reported research often focuses on this online to offline comparison with an emphasis on the increased rapidity with which people disclose increasingly more intimate and personal details about themselves to sometimes unknown others online. This accelerated disclosure has often been attributed to a sense of anonymity (Baker, 2005) and fear of reduced social rejection online (Pennebaker, 1989). Research will be discussed which demonstrates that this focus on the rapidity and quantity of online disclosures may be somewhat misleading. Distinctions will be made between voluntary and involuntary self-disclosure in a goal-directed manner across different types of Internet arena, as well as considering factors that influence online disclosures such as privacy and security concerns, the perceived realness of online communications and the intended recipient of online disclosures. Online self-disclosure will also be discussed within a theoretical approach which utilises a memory system model of self-knowledge (Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000) with a focus towards grounding the gradual and reciprocal disclosure of self-information online in a goal-directed hierarchical model of categorical processing.Item Metadata only Users’ Reactions to Failures and Frustrations Within Cyber Environments(Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, 2014) Scase, M. O.; Hall, J. K.; Attrill, A.