Author's Name:	Shengnan Wei, Hong Zou & Juan Wang
Subject Area:	Social Science and Humanities
Subject	Psychology
Section	Research Paper

Network Communication, WechatMoments use, On-line self-disclosure, On-line social support, College students’ Loneliness

To investigate the relationships between online self-disclosure and loneliness of college students as well as the mediating role of social support, the study took the WechatMoments (an SNS tool in China) for an example, recruited a sample of 250 college students from three different universities in the capital of China. Instruments are questionnaires contained revised questionnaires of WechatMoments use, self-command questionnaires of WechatMoments preference, and revised questionnaires of self-disclosure and loneliness. The results showed that:(1) Wechat use is pretty prevalent among college students. (2) The intensity of WechatMoments use is significantly positively correlated with loneliness. (3) The amount of self-disclosure is not significantly correlated with loneliness, but the negativity is significantly positively correlated with loneliness, the intent as well as the honesty are significantly negatively correlated with loneliness. (4) Online social support plays as a mediation between online self-disclosure and loneliness.