US and HK adolescents differ in conversation-topic preferences: HK adolescents more often prefer instrumental help-seeking and self-disclosure, while US adolescents more often report nothing to say to chatbots¶
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q2 i? 62.0% of HK adolescents preferred instrumental help-seeking and 30.0% self-disclosure versus only 8.0% nothing to say; in the whole sample instrumental help-seeking was most common (51.3%). → Huinan Hu 2026
Evidence¶
Huinan Hu 2026¶
Huinan Hu, Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad, Enyi Jen, H. N. Cheung. (2026). Turn to chatbots for sharing feelings or seeking solutions? Differential associations of preferences for chatbot-mediated self-disclosure and instrumental help-seeking with adolescent interpersonal behaviors in the United States and Hong Kong. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qm6bg_v1
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Descriptive statistics from the survey of 2023 adolescents (NUS = 1276, NHK = 747) coding an open-ended topic-preference question; the whole-sample figures were 51.3% instrumental help, 31.2% nothing, 17.5% self-disclosure.
"62.0% of HK adolescents preferred to seek instrumental help from AI chatbots; however, HK adolescents preferred to self-disclosure (30.0%) over nothing to say to AI chatbots (8.0%)."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Adolescents with self-disclosure or instrumental help-seeking preferences show higher adaptive coping and prosocial behaviors, and the self-disclosure group shows the lowest maladaptive coping and bullying, in ANOVA comparisons — related
- Adolescents' preference for instrumental help-seeking from AI chatbots is positively associated with adaptive coping, which relates to more prosocial behavior and less bullying, consistently across US and HK samples — related
- In the whole sample, preference for self-disclosure with AI chatbots is associated with higher adaptive coping and lower maladaptive coping, linking to more prosocial behavior and less bullying — related
- Mediation effects of self-disclosure preference on interpersonal behaviors are significant in HK adolescents but largely non-significant in US adolescents, where maladaptive coping mediates toward more bullying
- The correlates of self-disclosure preference with AI chatbots diverge culturally: positive with adaptive coping in HK but not the US, and positively associated with maladaptive coping in the US but negatively in HK
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US and HK adolescents differ in conversation-topic preferences: HK adolescents more often prefer instrumental help-seeking and self-disclosure, while US adolescents more often report nothing to say to chatbots |
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US and HK adolescents differ in conversation-topic preferences: HK adolescents more often prefer instrumental help-seeking and self-disclosure, while US adolescents more often report nothing to say to chatbots |
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2026 |
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