ABSTRACT

Emerging adults are increasingly “unfriending” their parents on Social Networking Sites (SNS). A survey among 300 emerging adults who recently moved out of the parental home investigated whether family communication patterns were related to shielding of SNS content from parents and whether perceived undesirability of privacy invasion mediated this relation. Structural equation modeling analyses showed that emerging adults from high conformity-oriented families reported higher perceived undesirability of privacy invasion, which related to higher shielding of SNS content. In contrast, emerging adults from high conversation-oriented families reported lower perceived undesirability of privacy invasion, which related to lower shielding of SNS content.

摘要

新兴成年人越来越多地在社交网站（SNS）上与父母“不交朋友”。对最近搬出父母家庭的300个新兴成年人进行的一项调查研究了家庭沟通模式是否与屏蔽父母的SNS内容有关，以及是否认为不受欢迎的隐私入侵会介导这种关系。结构方程模型分析表明，来自高度合规性家庭的新兴成年人报告说，他们对隐私入侵的感知更高，这与对SNS内容的更高屏蔽有关。相比之下，来自以对话为主的家庭的新兴成年人报告说，对隐私入侵的不良感觉降低了，这与对SNS内容的屏蔽程度降低有关。