KnE Social Sciences

Published date: Oct 13 2025

Journal Title: KnE Social Sciences

Issue title: The International Conference of Psychology 2025 (IcoPsy 2025)

Pages: 72 - 89

DOI: 10.18502/kss.v10i25.19889

‎‎ HernawatiFaculty of Psychology, State University of Malang, Malang, East Java

Raissa Dwifandra Putriraissa.dwifandra.fpsi@um.ac.idFaculty of Psychology, State University of Malang, Malang, East Java

Social media serves as a platform for users to engage in self-disclosure. Self-disclosure is a form of communication intentionally used by individuals to reveal personal information to others. However, existing phenomena show that individuals in adolescence and early adulthood often avoid self-disclosure, one reason being the fear of negative evaluation. This study aims to examine the role of fear of negative evaluation in relation to self-disclosure on social media. The instrument used to measure fear of negative evaluation is a modified version of Leary’s (1983) scale, while the self-disclosure instrument is constructed based on the theory of Latifa. The analysis technique employed is simple regression analysis, with the hypothesis that fear of negative evaluation plays a role in influencing self-disclosure among emerging adults’ social media users. The results indicate that the hypothesis is supported, showing that fear of negative evaluation contributes to self-disclosure on social media, with a contribution rate of 12.2%.

Keywords: self-disclosure, fear of negative evaluation, late adolescent, early adulthood, social media

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