Feeling Better But Doing Worse: Effects of Facebook Self-Presentation on Implicit Self-Esteem and Cognitive Task Performance

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Social comparison, social media, and self-esteem. (2014, unknown): “Finally, it is important to position our work within the context of other research showing that SNS use actually improves self-esteem (Gonzales & Hancock, 2011; Toma, 2013; Wilcox & Stephen, 2013).”
Follow me and like my beautiful selfies: Singapore teenage girls' engagement in self-presentation and peer comparison on social media (2016, background): “Much extant research on online self-presentation has focused on young adults' thought expression and image management through the presentation of written information (DeAndrea & Walther, 2011; Stern, 2007; Toma, 2013).”
Do Mass Mediated Stereotypes Harm Members of Negatively Stereotyped Groups? A Meta-Analytical Review on Media-Generated Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Lift (2017, background): “Activities on Social Networking Sites, such as Facebook, were connected to heightened feelings of self-worth and self-integrity (e.g., Toma, 2013).”
Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review (2019, background): “Following these studies, looking at one’s own SNS profile enhances participants’ self-esteem compared to SNSunrelated offline activities (Gonzales & Hancock, 2011) or viewing other people’s profiles (Toma, 2013; Toma & Hancock, 2013).”