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Facebook and self-perception: Individual susceptibility to negative social comparison on facebook.
Dian A. de Vries,Rinaldo Kühne +1 more
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In this paper, the authors investigated the indirect relationship between Facebook use and self-perceptions through negative social comparison and found that negative social comparisons are detrimental to perceptions about the self.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2015-11-01. It has received 165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social comparison theory & Social competence.read more
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The digital revolution and its impact on mental health care
TL;DR: It is argued that, as developments in digital technology are outpacing the evaluation of rigorous digital health interventions, more advanced methodologies are needed to keep up with the pace of digital technology development.
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Social Comparison as the Thief of Joy: Emotional Consequences of Viewing Strangers’ Instagram Posts
TL;DR: In this article, the emotional consequences of viewing strangers' positive posts on Instagram were investigated from a social comparison perspective, and it was found that strangers' posts on social media are expect...
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Psychosocial well-being and social media engagement: The mediating roles of social comparison orientation and fear of missing out:
TL;DR: Investigation of how three indicators of decreases in well-being are connected to social media engagement finds that loneliness, depression, and anxiety are positively related to increases in SME and SCO, which in turn positively predict SME.
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The Mediating Roles of Upward Social Comparison and Self-esteem and the Moderating Role of Social Comparison Orientation in the Association between Social Networking Site Usage and Subjective Well-Being.
TL;DR: Structural equation modeling revealed that upward social comparison and self-esteem mediated the relationship between SNS usage and users’ subjective well-being, and it was found that social comparison orientation moderated the association between passive S NS usage and Users’ upwardsocial comparison.
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Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps
TL;DR: Accumulating evidence indicates that social media can enhance or diminish well-being depending on how people use them, and future research is needed to model these complexities using stronger methods to advance knowledge in this domain.
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