Analyzing the Links Between Problematic Social Media Use, Dark Triad Traits, and Self-esteem
By Kağan Kırcaburun, Zsolt Demetrovics, Ş. B. Tosuntaş. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2018
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Social media use, which is regarded as a popular leisure activity around the world, brings about the risk of becoming problematic in its wake, and personality differences have been shown to relate with different levels of engagement in risky social media use. The purpose of this study was to examine the association of problematic social media use (PSMU) with Dark Triad (DT) traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism) and self-esteem. A total of 827 university students [495 (60%) women and 332 (40%) men, Mage = 20.36, SD = 1.47] filled out a questionnaire that included the Social Media Disorder Scale, Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Scale, and Single Item Self-esteem Scale. The direct effects of DT traits and self-esteem on PSMU and the indirect effect of narcissism on PSMU through self-esteem were investigated by applying structural equation modeling. Results indicated that, when controlling for gender and age, Machiavellianism and narcissism had small significant direct effects on PSMU, while the partial indirect link of narcissism via self-esteem was negligible. The model was able to explain 18% of the variance. Results were discussed in the light of existing literature.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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In Clinical Psychology
- Kağan Kırcaburun
- Ş. B. Tosuntaş
- Saleem Alhabash
- Mark D. Griffiths
- Daria J. Kuss
- Zsolt Demetrovics
- Joël Billieux
- Halley M. Pontes
In Social Psychology
In Sociology and Political Science
- Kağan Kırcaburun
- Mark D. Griffiths
- Ş. B. Tosuntaş
- Saleem Alhabash
- Daria J. Kuss
- Zsolt Demetrovics
- Laura Widyanto
- Scott E. Caplan
Citations in the corpus
- 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): “…Kim et al. 2008), Instagram (Kircaburun and Griffiths 2018a, b), Snapchat (Punyanunt-Carter et al. 2017), WeChat (Hou et al. 2017), Youtube (Balakrishnan and Griffiths 2017), and social media in general (Andreassen et al. 2017; Bányai et al. 2017; Kircaburun 2016b; Kircaburun et al. 2018a, b).”