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Valkenburg, Patti. and Peter, Jochen. "Adolescents’ Identity Experiments on the Internet: Consequences for Social Competence and Self-Concept Unity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p168975_index.html>

Valkenburg, P. M. and Peter, J. , 2007-05-23 "Adolescents’ Identity Experiments on the Internet: Consequences for Social Competence and Self-Concept Unity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p168975_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of adolescents’ online identity experiments on their social competence and self-concept unity. An online survey was conducted among a representative sample of 1,231 Dutch adolescents between 10 and 17 years of age. Using Structural Equation Modeling, we investigated the validity of four opposing effects hypotheses in an integrative antecedents-and-effects model. Adolescents who more often experimented with their identity on the Internet more often communicated with people of different ages and cultural backgrounds. This communication, in turn, had a positive effect on adolescents’ social competence, but did not affect their self-concept unity. In particular, lonely adolescents used the Internet to experiment with their identity. The social competence of lonely adolescents benefited significantly from these identity experiments.

The effects of self-monitoring and acquaintance on online and face-to-face interactions: An examination of the social identity model of deindividuation

Conflict, Identity and the Internet: Online Social Forums and Israeli/Palestinian Communication, Recrimination and Self-Determination