Citation

Guohua Z, Yanying D, Li L, Xianliang Z. Procedia Eng. 2012; 29: 1651-1655.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.proeng.2012.01.189

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Nowadays, more and more adolescents surf the internet and represent themselves on the internet. However, there has been no satisfactory measure of such concerns. A self-report instrument, the Scale of Adolescents' Online Self-Presentation has therefore been developed. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of large samples (N=597) of adolescents established the reliability and validity of the instrument, and a two-factor structure was identified, including perceptions of online body decoration and online body decoration behaviors. The results indicated that the Scale of Adolescents' Online Self-Presentation has trustworthy reliability and validity. Furthermore, the result of using the SAOSP in adolescents has been discussed.