Instagram: Motives for its use and relationship to narcissism and contextual age

By Pavica Sheldon, Katherine Bryant. Computers in Human Behavior, 2016

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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‘Instafamous’ – credibility and self-presentation of micro-celebrities on social media (2019, background): “As more than half of Instagram subscribers are female, this work explores the behavior of female users (Sheldon & Bryant, 2016).”
Sharenting and the extended self: self-representation in parents’ Instagram presentations of their children (2020, methodology): “Time and thought were given to the visual quality including filters, lighting, framing, and cropping so as to portray an idealized image, in accordance with past research on other Instagram users (Sheldon & Bryant, 2016).”
Sensitive Self-disclosures, Responses, and Social Support on Instagram: The Case of #Depression (2017, background): “Prior research [74] suggests that people use Instagram for surveillance, documentation, coolness, and creativity.”
The role of digital influencers in brand recommendation: Examining their impact on engagement, expected value and purchase intention (2019, neutral): “However, people who fall into this age group are heavy users of social networking sites such as Instagram (Djafarova & Rushworth, 2017; Sheldon & Bryant, 2016).”
Introducing the Social Media Literacy (SMILE) model with the case of the positivity bias on social media (2020, background): “…of social media (e.g., automatically showing picture-enhancing filters when posting a picture) facilitate the construction of positive content and thus the participation in the positivity bias (Boyd & Ellison, 2008; Sheldon & Bryant, 2016; Walther, Van Der Heide, Ramirez, Burgoon, & Pena, 2015).”
Uses and Gratifications of Problematic Social Media Use Among University Students: a Simultaneous Examination of the Big Five of Personality Traits, Social Media Platforms, and Social Media Use Motives (2018, background): “Other studies have found that individuals use Instagram for the gratifications of surveillance, documentation, coolness and creativity (Sheldon and Bryant 2016).”
The Role of Social Media Content Format and Platform in Users’ Engagement Behavior (2021, background): “Instagram has an app-based design with a very aesthetic platform (double tap for liking) (Sheldon & Bryant, 2016), and it is evident that users tend to “like” more on this platform than for the same posts on Facebook.”
Norms of online expressions of emotion: Comparing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp (2017, neutral): “This ties in with existing research that has pointed toward a focus on self-promotional content on Instagram due to its visual properties (Sheldon and Bryant, 2016), and the popularity of negatively valenced content on Twitter (e.”
The Relations Among Social Media Addiction, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction in University Students (2017, background): “Also, some studies showed a positive relationship between Instagram use and narcissism, where users high in narcissism tend to post more selfies and spend more time on Instagram (Andreassen, Pallesen, et al., 2016; Moon, Lee, Lee, Choi, & Sung, 2016; Sheldon & Bryant, 2016).”
A Tale of Four Platforms: Motivations and Uses of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat Among College Students? (2017, background): “Sheldon and Bryant (2016) found that Instagram users place less emphasis on connecting with other people and more on personal identity and self-promotion, in addition to other motives, including surveillance and knowledge gathering about others, documentation of life events and general cool-ness,…”