Social Comparison, Envy, and Depression on Facebook: A Study Looking at the Effects of High Comparison Standards on Depressed Individuals

By H. Appel, J. Crusius, Alexander L. Gerlach. 2015

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Reciprocal Relationship Between Passive Social Networking Site (SNS) Usage and Users’ Subjective Well-Being (2018, background): “This has made upward social comparisons almost unavoidable (Appel et al., 2015; de Vries & Kühne, 2015) as the presented information is positively skewed (Jordan et al., 2011; Lee-Won, Shim, Joo, & Park, 2014).”
I Like What She’s #Endorsing: The Impact of Female Social Media Influencers’ Perceived Sincerity, Consumer Envy, and Product Type (2020, methodology): “To measure how envious participants felt toward the influencer, the seven items used by Appel, Crusius, and Gerlach (2015) were adapted and anchored on a 7-point Likert scale (1¼ Strongly disagree to 7¼ Strongly agree).”
The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression (2016, background): “However, in the experiment by Appel and colleagues [38 ] depressed participants were more negatively affected by a high comparison target.”
Social Networking Sites, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “Appel et al [116] examined how depression may influence an SNS user’s interpretation of the profile information of other users.”
Social Comparison as the Thief of Joy: Emotional Consequences of Viewing Strangers’ Instagram Posts (2018, background): “Furthermore, in one quasi-experiment among 89 depressed and non-depressed adults, individuals who viewed profiles of attractive peers (in terms of job and education, friends, likes, and comments) reported more envy than those who viewed unattractive profiles (Appel, Crusius, & Gerlach, 2015).”
Explaining Females’ Envy Toward Social Media Influencers (2018, methodology): “The degree to which participants envied influencers’ life was measured by three items adapted from Appel et al. (2015): “I envy the influencers’ life shown on socialmedia,” “My life is inferior to influencers’ life shown on social media,” and “I wish to live like influencers on social media.””