The relative contributions of implicit and explicit self-esteem to narcissistic use of Facebook
| Autor: | Erin R. Morris, Doug Davis, Manu Bhandari, Kevin Wise, Roma Subramanian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Conceptualization media_common.quotation_subject Self-esteem Implicit-association test Human-Computer Interaction Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Narcissism medicine Personality medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Computers in Human Behavior. 39:306-311 |
| ISSN: | 0747-5632 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.023 |
| Popis: | We investigated the relationship between narcissism and Facebook use.Narcissism was conceptualized as discrepant explicit and implicit self-esteem.We explored how these components of narcissism predict Facebook use.High explicit self-esteem predicted more other- than self-referent Facebook posts.High implicit self-esteem predicted fewer Facebook friends. This study aimed to explore the relationship between narcissism and Facebook use. Based on a conceptualization of narcissism as a discrepancy between implicit and explicit self-esteem, we investigated the relative contributions of each element of self-esteem to different Facebook behaviors presumed to represent narcissism. We measured the explicit and implicit self-esteem of 81 participants using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the Self-Esteem Implicit Association Test (IAT), respectively. Most participants then provided access to their Facebook accounts by friending a fictitious person. We coded a sample of these participants' online behaviors, and then analyzed how they related to the measures of self-esteem. Results suggest that implicit rather than explicit self-esteem drives Facebook behaviors associated with narcissism, with implicit self-esteem negatively correlated with number of Facebook friends. These results inform our understanding of the relationship between personality and online behavior. |
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