scholarly journals Use of Instagram, Social Comparison, and Personality as Predictors of Self-Esteem

Psico-USF ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-724
Author(s):  
Luiza Seabra Fagundes ◽  
Tiago Azevedo Marot ◽  
Jean Carlos Natividade
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Suppression Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

Abstract In the face of a population that is increasingly connected electronically, the objective of this research was to test the predictive power of Instagram’s use intensity, social comparison and the five major personality factors of self-esteem. The survey, made available on the internet with sociodemographic questions and four scales, was answered by 625 Brazilians, of which 63.7% were women. The results indicated neuroticism and social comparison (abilities factor) as negative predictors of self-esteem. Extraversion, agreeableness, consciousness, social comparison (opinions factor), and age were shown to be positive predictors of self-esteem. For women, the higher the intensity of Instagram’s use, the lower the levels of self-esteem. The negative relationship between self-esteem and the intensity of Instagram use was mediated by social comparison (suppression effect). It is suggested that the harm of using the social network relates to the activity of comparing himself to other people.

External sources promoting resilience in adults with intellectual disabilities: A systematic literature review

2020 ◽  
pp. 174462952096194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Femke Scheffers ◽  
Xavier Moonen ◽  
Eveline van Vugt
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
External Sources ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

Background: Persons with an intellectual disability are at increased risk of experiencing adversities. The current study aims at providing an overview of the research on how resilience in adults with intellectual disabilities, in the face of adversity, is supported by sources in their social network. Method: A literature review was conducted in the databases Psycinfo and Web of Science. To evaluate the quality of the included studies, the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool (MMAT) was used. Results: The themes: “ positive emotions,” “ network acceptance,” “ sense of coherence” and “ network support,” were identified as sources of resilience in the social network of the adults with intellectual disabilities. Conclusion: The current review showed that research addressing sources of resilience among persons with intellectual disabilities is scarce. In this first overview, four sources of resilience in the social network of people with intellectual disabilities were identified that interact and possibly strengthen each other.

Name of Russian Podcasts: Semantics and Pragmatics

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
Violetta Gaputina
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Language Game ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Site ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Communicative Space

This article addresses the issues of organizing the communicative space of modern media. The main focus is on considering the names of podcasts - audio blogs on the Internet - in terms of the various language techniques used in them. The material for the study was podcasts operating on the platforms of the Internet site YouTube and the social network Vkontakte in Russia. 9 groups of podcast titles were identified by the type of reception underlying each name. It has been established that the corpus of titles in the podcasting industry is characterized by a wide variety. Among them, original names predominate, built on the basis of a language game, precedent texts, borrowings from other languages, stylistically marked words or implicit meaning, metaphorical, symbolic, ironic component embedded in them, which work on the implementation of a contact-establishing strategy for subsequent communication between mediators and the audience listeners.

scholarly journals Building a Trust Model for Social Network

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Rababah ◽  
Bassam Alqudah
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Trust Model ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
Network Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Student Trust

The revolution in information technology and the use of the internet changed the lifestyle of people. A major change was in the way of shopping. Companies started to offer their products online using social network s and people started to buy from the internet. Using social network has many benefits to the users starting from exploring a large variety of products to the very first way of ordering and the availability of the products 24 hours a day. One of the main problems that is found in using a social network is trusting the using social network social network s. the student concern about trusting to buy from the using social network social network s. Trust is a major concern for the merchant too; his concern is how to gain the student trust and to keep it. Many factors play a major role in acquiring the student trust in the online market. These factors rely on the social network characteristics such as design, interactivity and age and other factors vary from the social network quality, service quality, security policy of the social network, the privacy policy, the guarantee offered, the satisfaction of the user, the ease of use, the risk aversion and the culture factors. This study introduces the trusting affecting factors mentioned above and their effect on the trustworthiness factors (ability, benevolence, and integrity) a trust model has been built to show the relation between these factors and the trustworthiness factors.

scholarly journals Factors associated with foreign language anxiety

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinxing Jin ◽  
Kees de Bot ◽  
Merel C.J. Keijzer
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
The Social ◽  
Foreign Language Proficiency ◽  
Status Data

This paper reports a study that investigates and compares the effects of foreign language proficiency, social status of a learner’s family, self-esteem, and competitiveness on FL anxiety. Chinese university students (N = 146), who were learning Japanese and English, participated in this study. Social status data were collected once with the Social Status Scale. Other variables were measured twice over a two-month interval, using the Competitiveness Index, the Self-esteem Scale, the English/Japanese Classroom Anxiety Scale, and the English/Japanese Proficiency Scale. Results showed that foreign language proficiency, competitiveness, and self-esteem all significantly predicted foreign language anxiety levels. Foreign language proficiency was the best predictor, followed by self-esteem, then competitiveness. A negative relationship was revealed between these predictor variables and foreign language anxiety. Social status was not related to foreign language anxiety, either directly or indirectly.

scholarly journals The Moderating Role of Social Network Size on Social Media Use and Self-Esteem: An Evolutionary Mismatch Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Lim ◽  
Clement Lau ◽  
Norman P. Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Evolutionary Mismatch ◽  
Social Network Size ◽  
The Relationship

Existing meta-analyses have shown that the relationship between social media use and self-esteem is negative, but at very small effect sizes, suggesting the presence of moderators that change the relationship between social media use and self-esteem. Employing principles from social comparison and evolutionary mismatch theories, we propose that the social network sizes one has on social media play a key role in the relationship between social media use and self-esteem. In our study (N = 123), we showed that social media use was negatively related to self-esteem, but only when their social network size was within an evolutionarily familiar level. Social media use was not related to self-esteem when people’s social networks were at evolutionarily novel sizes. The data supported both social comparison and evolutionary mismatch theories and elucidated the small effect size found for the relationship between social media use and self-esteem in current literature. More critically, the findings of this study highlight the need to consider evolutionarily novel stimuli that are present on social media to better understand the behaviors of people in this social environment.

scholarly journals Narušavanje pravopisne norme u ranojezičnoj neformalnoj komunikaciji (na primjeru SMS poruka i internetske društvene mreže Facebook)

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1.) ◽  
Author(s):  
Slavica Vrsaljko ◽  
Tea Ljubimir
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Spelling Errors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Almost All

SMS messaging and communicating on social networks are increasingly widespread forms of informal communication. Mobile phones have almost all, and in addition they open profiles on the Internet social network, corresponding in this way with their peers. In writing messages is being recorded a large number of spelling errors, most of errors are those whose adoption is foreseen in the the lower grades of elementary school. In order to determine the level of mastery of linguistic norms, the message will be analysed as well as comments from the social networks of fourth-grade students.

scholarly journals Linguistics Characteristics of Social Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 2274-2281
Author(s):  
Majeed Mohamed Fareed Majeed ◽  
Abdurahman Adisaputera
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Multiple Authorship ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
The Social

In this paper we introduce the idea of an author about the use of slang language for the period of (16th -20th) century, while other give the use of slang language in the social network and the purpose of the said and the name giving to it. Also the factors that affect the variety of language which will reflect also on the language used in the internet. Hence a new linguistic expression was rising with the name of internet linguistic. We give also some popular internet slangs and its advantages also the emoticons and its different use between males and fameless and prefer to use the capitalize letters. This study also shows the effect of virtual communication on the individuals. We conclude that analytically the internet slang is a specific variety of language and characteristics according to the kind of output, also commonly used than speech, like feedback, emoticons, multiple conversations, hypertext links, persistence, and multiple authorship. Moreover it challenged the cooperative and politeness principles, relevance theory, humor, economy, and tolerance, it express the social identity, rather than illiteracy or the character limit of message services.

scholarly journals As relações de intertextualidade conforme as funções discursivas anafóricas no gênero digital comentário, no Facebook

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Tedesco V. Abreu ◽  
Cristina Normandia Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Coherence Property ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cohesive Function ◽  
Digital Genres

RESUMO: Recente estudo sobre o nível microdiscursivo e o nível macrodiscursivo do gênero digital comentário, na rede social Facebook, comprovou que esse gênero é uma superestrutura discursiva. Pautado na análise de funções discursivas de Tedesco (2002) de expressões anafóricas diretas, foi possível constatar em sequências textuais do gênero digital comentário o fenômeno da intertextualidade, propriedade de coerência textual. A intertextualidade é uma propriedade reconhecida em hipertextos. No entanto, observa-se que abordagens sobre a intertextualidade em hipertextos, especificamente na Internet, são deficitários por não exemplificarem como a propriedade de coerência é desenvolvida em gêneros digitais. Neste sentido, o presente artigo tem o objetivo de discutir a intertextualidade e suas particularidades discursivas a partir das funções discursivas de expressões anafóricas diretas em textos verbais de comentários publicados em perfil público da jornalista Eliane Cantanhêde. As expressões anafóricas diretas apresentam significativa função coesiva em textos verbais, as quais são estratégias textuais e cognitivas que muito contribuem para a produção de sentidos do texto e, assim, refletem que a instabilidade dos objetos no uso da linguagem. Essa é uma abordagem fundamentada na Linguística Textual, a qual apresenta a concepção de língua com uma atividade de interação que pressupõe a existência do sujeito social. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: intertextualidade; funções anafóricas; gênero discursivo comentário; Facebook.   ABSTRACT: Recent study on the micro-discursive and the macro-discursive levels of the digital genre comment, on the social network Facebook, proved that this genre is a discursive superstructure. Based on the analysis of discursive functions of Tedesco (2002) of direct anaphoric expressions, it was possible to verify the intertextuality phenomenon in text sequences of the digital genre comment, property of textual coherence. Intertextuality is a property recognized in hypertexts. However, it is observed that approaches on intertextuality in hypertexts, specifically on the Internet, are deficient because they do not exemplify how coherence property is developed in digital genres. In this sense, this article aims at discussing intertextuality and its discursive particularities from the discursive functions of direct anaphoric expressions in verbal texts of comments published in the public profile of the journalist Eliane Cantanhêde. The direct anaphoric expressions present a significant cohesive function in verbal texts, which are textual and cognitive strategies that contribute much to the production of meanings of the text and thus reflect that the instability of objects in the use of language. This is an approach based on Textual Linguistics, which presents the concept of language with an interaction activity that presupposes the existence of the social subject. KEYWORDS: intertextuality; anaphoric functions; discursive genre comment; Facebook.

scholarly journals Strategies of the Spanish press in the face of the Twitter algorithm change. Analysis of tweets published between 2018-2020

2022 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Antonio Díaz-Lucena ◽  
Victoria Mora-de-la-Torre ◽  
Lorenzo-J. Torres-Hortelano
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Face ◽  
15Th Anniversary ◽  
Spanish Press ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
Future Growth

Twitter recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. During this period, the platform has gone through several phases, culminating in a record number of subscribers and profits in 2021. Twitter is a household name all over the world and people know what it can or cannot provide, independent of the future growth that it may experience with new investments and updates. This article aims to verify two interrelated hypotheses, namely: the Spanish press already knows how to optimise the social network Twitter, as three decades have elapsed since its launch; and, secondly, the algorithm modification implemented by Twitter in 2018 has triggered a change in the positioning of the headers studied in this social network. In order to demonstrate both, the object of analysis will be conducted by a mixed approach through quantitative statistical processes (which will study the number of impacts and retweets and likes obtained), and inductive qualitative methods such as semi-structured interviews. This multidisciplinary approach will provide a more complete and in-depth analysis of the phenomenon. The research focuses on the period between 2018 and 2020, and addresses the participation on Twitter of the four main traditional newspapers (El País, La Vanguardia, ABC and El Mundo) as well as four native digital newspapers (20 Minutos, El Español, elDiario.es and El Huffpost). The analysis comprises more than 1.5 million tweets among the eight chosen newspapers.

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