Envy on Facebook: A Hidden Threat to Users' Life Satisfaction?

By Hanna Krasnova, Helena Wenninger, Thomas Widjaja, Peter Buxmann. Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2013

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being (2016, positive): “3,7 In addition, there is experimental evidence conﬁrm-ing that Facebook has negative effects on well-being: Facebook use leads to deterioration of mood 8 and declines in the affective dimension of well-being.”
Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence. (2015, neutral): “This distinction is important because crosssectional work has linked passive Facebook usage with reduced levels of subjective well-being (Krasnova et al., 2013).”
Social Media and Loneliness (2019, background): “Although Burke et al, (2010) and Krasnova et al. (2013) found that there were significant correlations between SNS and loneliness, this research did not show any significant correlations between the preferred order in checking platforms and loneliness.”
Too Many ‘Friends,’ Too Few ‘Likes’? Evolutionary Psychology and ‘Facebook Depression’ (2015, background): “Beyond further investigating ‘Facebook depression,’ however, there may be other effects of the medium that are worthy of enquiry (Krasnova et al., 2013).”
Designing an Online Infrastructure for Collecting AI Data From People With Disabilities (2021, methodology): “For qualitative data, we conducted an interpretative qualitative analysis [36] that started with open coding in two phases [31].”
Instagram #Instasad?: Exploring Associations Among Instagram Use, Depressive Symptoms, Negative Social Comparison, and Strangers Followed (2015, neutral): “15,22 This is particularly important because of the increasing size of people’s social networks, which have tripled over the last decade, jumping from an average of 150–200 8 to 649, 38 which most likely reﬂects a trend toward including more distant ac-quaintances and strangers.”
Facebook's emotional consequences: Why Facebook causes a decrease in mood and why people still use it (2014, background): “They tie in with previous findings pointing to the negative emotional states Facebook can put its users in (Burke et al., 2010; Krasnova et al., 2013).”
Using Social Media for Social Comparison and Feedback-Seeking: Gender and Popularity Moderate Associations with Depressive Symptoms (2015, positive): “Furthermore, preliminary findings suggest that negative social comparison on Facebook may be associated with lower life satisfaction (Krasnova et al. 2013), as well as increased rumination and depressive symptoms (Feinstein et al.”
Putting the “self” in selfies: how narcissism, envy and self-promotion motivate sharing of travel photos through social media (2020, methodology): “This could explain previous findings that social media usage increases levels of envy (Taylor & Strutton, 2016) and leads to lower life satisfaction (Chou & Edge, 2012; Krasnova et al., 2013).”
Social Network Sites, Individual Social Capital and Happiness (2016, background): “In particular, it has been found that the use of Facebook can trigger negative emotions such as jealousy, social tension, and social overload (Krasnova et al. 2013).”
The emotional responses of browsing Facebook: Happiness, envy, and the role of tie strength (2015, background): “These types of positive posts can lead to upward comparisons and envy (Krasnova et al., 2013).”
Social Comparison, Envy, and Depression on Facebook: A Study Looking at the Effects of High Comparison Standards on Depressed Individuals (2015, background): “Indeed, feelings of envy (Chou & Edge, 2012; Krasnova et al., 2013) and depression (Feinstein, Bhatia, Hershenberg, & Davila, 2012; Kross et al., 2013) have been linked to OSN exposure.”
Passive and Active Facebook Use Measure (PAUM): Validation and relationship to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (2017, methodology): “…of Facebook activity (Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014; Verduyn et al., 2015), (b) through access to server logs from Facebook (Burke et al., 2010), or (c) by using subscales which measure feature use from other Facebook measures (Krasnova et al., 2013; Shaw, Timpano, Tran, & Joormann, 2015).”
Explaining Females’ Envy Toward Social Media Influencers (2018, background): “For example, studies have reported a positive association between Facebook use and envy (Chou & Edge, 2012) and also shown that envy mediates the relationship between social media use and life satisfaction or depression (Krasnova et al., 2013; Tandoc et al., 2015; Verduyn et al., 2015).”