When positive reviews on social networking sites backfire: The role of social comparison and malicious envy

Social media sites have recently gain an essential importance in the contemporary societies، actually، these sites isn't simply a personal or social tool of communication among people، its role had been expanded to become "political"، words such as "Facebook، Twitter and YouTube" are common words in political fields of our modern days since the uprisings of Arab spring، which sometimes called (Facebook revolutions) as a result of the major impact of these sites in broadcasting process of the revolution message over the world by organize and manage the revolution progresses in spite of the governmental ascendance and official prohibition.

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Social Networking Sites Continuance: An Application of Extended Theory of Planned Behaviour

Telecom Business Review ◽

10.21863/tbr/2015.8.1.006 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Himanshu Rajput

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Theory Of Planned Behaviour ◽

Standard Theory ◽

Planned Behaviour ◽

Privacy Concerns ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Continued Use ◽

Moderating Role

Social networking sites (SNSs) have become popular in India with the proliferation of Internet. SNSs have gained the interests of academicians and researchers. The current study is an endeavor to understand the continuance of social networking sites in India. The study applies an extended version of theory of planned behavior. Additional factors privacy concerns and habits were incorporated into the standard theory of planned behaviour. A survey was conducted in a Central University in India. Overall, data was collected from 150 respondents. PLS-SEM was used to test the proposed model. All the hypotheses except the moderating role of habits between intentions and continued use of social networking sites, were supported by the results. Habits were found to affect continued use of social networking sites indirectly through continued intentions.

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Childhood emotional abuse and problematic social networking sites use in a sample of Italian adolescents: The mediating role of deficiencies in self‐other differentiation and uncertain reflective functioning

Journal of Clinical Psychology ◽

10.1002/jclp.23138 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alessandro Musetti ◽

Vladan Starcevic ◽

Valentina Boursier ◽

Paola Corsano ◽

Joël Billieux ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Emotional Abuse ◽

Reflective Functioning ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Childhood Emotional Abuse ◽

Italian Adolescents

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Social Comparison Orientation and Cyberbullying Perpetration and Victimization: Roles of Envy on Social Networking Sites and Body Satisfaction

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/08862605211023486 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 088626052110234

Author(s):

Jingyu Geng ◽

Yuhui Wang ◽

Hongxia Wang ◽

Pengcheng Wang ◽

Li Lei

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Social Comparison ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Body Satisfaction ◽

The Body ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Satisfaction Scale ◽

Slope Test ◽

Social Comparison Orientation

Although some studies have explored the psychological and behavioral outcomes of social comparison orientation (SCO), few have explored the associations of SCO with cyberbullying perpetration and victimization. The current study aimed to investigate the associations of SCO with cyberbullying perpetration and victimization, and considered envy on social networking sites (SNS) as a mediator and body satisfaction as a moderator in these relations. To test our expectations, 941 adolescents aged between 10 and 16 years ( M = 13.15, SD = 1.18) completed multiple questionnaires, namely the Social Comparison Orientation Scale, the Revised Cyber Bullying Inventory, an envy scale revised for the SNS context, and the Body Areas Satisfaction Scale. Correlation analysis revealed that cyberbullying perpetration and cyberbullying victimization were significantly and positively correlated with SCO and envy on SNS, and significantly and negatively correlated with body satisfaction. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed that envy on SNS played a mediating role in the associations of SCO with cyberbullying perpetration and victimization. The results of SEM and simple slope test analysis indicated that body satisfaction weakened the direct association of SCO with envy on SNS and further weakened the indirect associations of SCO with cyberbullying perpetration and victimization via envy on SNS. Specifically, individuals with high levels of SCO were more likely to feel envious on SNS, and further tended to bully others and be bullied online when they were dissatisfied with their bodies. In other words, positive body satisfaction protected individuals with high levels of SCO from cyberbullying perpetration and victimization by decreasing their feelings of envy on SNS.

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Older and Younger Job Seekers' Impression Management on LinkedIn

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000269 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 61-74

Author(s):

Franciska Krings ◽

Irina Gioaba ◽

Michèle Kaufmann ◽

Sabine Sczesny ◽

Leslie Zebrowitz

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Networking ◽

Impression Management ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

The Internet ◽

Job Seekers ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Job Offers ◽

Research Show

Abstract. The use of social networking sites such as LinkedIn in recruitment is ubiquitous. This practice may hold risks for older job seekers. Not having grown up using the internet and having learned how to use social media only in middle adulthood may render them less versed in online self-presentation than younger job seekers. Results of this research show some differences and many similarities between younger and older job seekers' impression management on their LinkedIn profiles. Nevertheless, independent of their impression management efforts, older job seekers received fewer job offers than younger job seekers. Only using a profile photo with a younger appearance reduced this bias. Implications for the role of job seeker age in online impression management and recruitment are discussed.

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Vulnerable Narcissism in Social Networking Sites: The Role of Upward and Downward Social Comparisons

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.711909 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Fanchang Kong ◽

Meiru Wang ◽

Xingjie Zhang ◽

Xiaoyao Li ◽

Xiaojun Sun

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Social Comparisons ◽

Vital Role ◽

Media Effect ◽

Vulnerable Narcissism ◽

The Media ◽

Underlying Mechanisms ◽

Comparative Theory

Social networking sites (SNSs) have provided a new platform for people to present their narcissism. The objective of the current study was to investigate the underlying mechanisms between active and passive SNS use and vulnerable narcissism among college students. In achieving this, the study based its method on the media effect and social comparative theory and recruited 529 participants to complete the Surveillance Use Scale, Iowa–Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure, and Hypersensitivity Narcissistic Scale. The results showed that active and passive SNS use were positively related to upward and downward social comparisons. Active and passive SNS use also indirectly predicted vulnerable narcissism through the parallel mediation of upward and downward social comparisons. This study also revealed the vital role of social comparison in the association between SNS use and vulnerable narcissism.

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