dc.contributor.author | Bobkowski, Peter S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pearce, Lisa D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-03T21:03:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-03T21:03:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-12-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bobkowski, P. S., & Pearce, L. D. (2011). Baring their souls in online profiles or not: Religious self-disclosure in social media. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50, 744-762. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5906.2011.01597.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22438 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study measured the prevalence of religious self-disclosure in public MySpace profiles that belonged to a subsample of National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) wave 3 respondents (N=560). Personal attributes associated with religious identification as well as the overall quantity of religious self-disclosures are examined. A majority (62 percent) of profile owners identified their religious affiliations online, although relatively few profile owners (30 percent) said anything about religion outside the religion-designated field. Most affiliation reports (80 percent) were consistent with the profile owner’s reported affiliation on the survey. Religious profile owners disclosed more about religion when they also believed that religion is a public matter or if they evaluated organized religion positively. Evangelical Protestants said more about religion than other respondents. Religiosity, believing that religion is a public matter, and the religiosity of profile owners’ friendship group were all positively associated with religious identification and self-disclosure. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
dc.rights | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Baring Their Souls in Online Profiles or Not? Religious Self-Disclosure in Social Media, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2011.01597.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-disclosure | en_US |
dc.subject | Religious identity | en_US |
dc.subject | Social media | en_US |
dc.subject | Emerging adults | en_US |
dc.title | Baring Their Souls in Online Profiles or Not? Religious Self-Disclosure in Social Media | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Bobkowski, Piotr | |
kusw.kudepartment | Journalism | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2011.01597.x | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |