Facebook and self-perception: Individual susceptibility to negative social comparison on facebook.

By Dian A. de Vries, Rinaldo Kühne. 2015

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

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Heavy social networking and online compulsive buying: the mediating role of financial social comparison and materialism (2021, background): “Consequently, SNSs users tend to compare themselves with those happier than them (De Vries & Kühne, 2015) which triggers the inclination to make financial comparisons that, in turn, increases materialistic tendencies.”
Social Degeneration through Social Media: A Study of the Adverse Impact of ‘Memes’ (2019, background): “A survey among 231 emerging adults (age 18–25) showed that Facebook use was related to a greater degree of negative social comparison [24].”
Upward social comparison on social network sites and depressive symptoms: A moderated mediation model of self-esteem and optimism (2017, background): “According to social comparison theory (de Vries & Kühne, 2015; Festinger, 1954), upward social comparison would lead individuals to be more aware of the fact that they are worse off than others.”
The digital revolution and its impact on mental health care. (2019, background): “Indeed, negative social comparisons on social media websites are associated with depression, low self-esteem (Berry et al., 2018; de Vries & Kühne, 2015; de Vries, Möller, Wieringa, Eigenraam, & Hamelink, 2018; Feinstein et al., 2013; Lup, Trub, & Rosenthal, 2015), paranoia (Berry et al., 2018) and…”
Social Comparison as the Thief of Joy: Emotional Consequences of Viewing Strangers’ Instagram Posts (2018, background): “People differ in the degree to which they compare themselves to others on social media (Lee, 2014) and in the degree to which they feel like they are worse off than others on social media (de Vries & Kühne, 2015; Lee, 2014; Lup et al., 2015).”
Passive social networking site use and well-being: The mediating roles of social comparison and the fear of missing out (2019, background): “In turn, making upward social comparisons on Facebook is linked with lower life satisfaction (de Vries & Kühne, 2015; Gerson, Plagnol, & Corr, 2016) and self-esteem (Lee, 2014; Vogel, Rose, Roberts, & Eckles, 2014), as well as greater anxiety symptoms (Lee, 2014) and depressive symptoms (Chow &…”
Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review (2019, methodology): “Articles were mapped to the (1) social comparison process if they measured being exposed to content provided by others, either by passive use in general (Verduyn et al., 2017) or by browsing others’ profiles (de Vries & Kühne, 2015).”
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Passive Social Networking Site (SNS) Usage and Users’ Subjective Well-Being (2018, background): “Passive SNS usage, also called content consumption, including directed or random consumption of social content, may reduce social capital (de Vries & Kühne, 2015; Oh, Ozkaya, & LaRose, 2014) and psychological well-being.”