Narcissism on Facebook: Self-promotional and anti-social behavior

By Christopher J. Carpenter. 2012

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

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Mirror or Megaphone?: How relationships between narcissism and social networking site use differ on Facebook and Twitter (2013, background): “This is inconsistent with previous findings (Carpenter, 2012) in which heavy Facebook users scored high in the ‘‘Grandiose Exhibitionism’’ aspect of narcissism.”
Is Facebook creating "iDisorders"? The link between clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders and technology use, attitudes and anxiety (2013, background): “In addition, a study by Carpenter (2012) tested the impact of Facebook activity on antisocial behaviors and found that entitlement/exhibitionism were related to certain antisocial behaviors such as retaliating against negative comments about oneself, reading others’ status updates to see if they…”
The dark side of Facebook: Semantic representations of status updates predict the Dark Triad of personality (2014, background): “The trait of Narcissism has been associated with the frequency of using Facebook (Buffardi & Campbell, 2008; Mehdizadeh, 2010; Ong et al., 2011) and with the number of friends on Facebook (Bergman, Fearrington, Davenport, & Bergman, riad of 2011; Carpenter, 2012).”
The Big Five, Self-Esteem, and Narcissism as Predictors of the Topics People Write About in Facebook Status Updates (2015, background): “…to gain validation for inflated self-views, consistent with the positive association of narcissism with the frequency of updating one’s status (Carpenter, 2012), posting more self-promoting content (Mehdizadeh, 2010), and seeking to attract admiring friends to one’s Facebook profile…”
Selfies and personality: Who posts self-portrait photographs? (2016, unknown): “Carpenter (2012) found that “Grandiose Exhibitionism” (a factor of narcissism) was related to self-absorption, whereas a need to be the center of others' attention (Ackerman et al., 2011) appears to be an important determinant of self-promotion on Facebook (via status updates, photos, and attaining…”
The Dark Triad and trait self-objectification as predictors of men's use and self-presentation behaviors on social networking sites (2015, background): “Narcissists use SNSs for self-promotion purposes, including projecting a positive self-image and acquiring a lot of ‘‘friends’’ (Bergman, Fearrington, Davenport, & Bergman, 2011; Buffardi & Campbell, 2008; Carpenter, 2012).”
“Let Me Take a Selfie”: Associations Between Self-Photography, Narcissism, and Self-Esteem (2017, background): “Other evidence suggests that narcissism is associated with more exhibitionistic or attention-seeking posts on Facebook (Carpenter, 2012), including self-referential statements or updates and more frequent location check-ins (DeWall et al., 2011; Wang & Stefanone, 2013).”
Dark Triad personality traits and adolescent cyber-aggression (2015, background): “In this study adolescents’ Facebook intensity, measured by the Facebook Intensity Scale, did not even correlate with narcissism, which also contradicts related findings confirming an association between adult narcissism and frequencies of adults’ Facebook use (Carpenter, 2012) and adults’ quantity o”
Twitter versus Facebook: Exploring the role of narcissism in the motives and usage of different social media platforms (2014, methodology): “Unlike Facebook, few empirical investigations have been conducted using Twitter (e.g., Chen, 2011; Hughes et al., 2012; McKinney et al., 2012; Panek et al., 2013).”
Trolling on Tinder® (and other dating apps): Examining the role of the Dark Tetrad and impulsivity (2017, background): “For example, narcissism has been linked to increased self-promotion (Carpenter, 2012), and Machiavellianism has been linked to relational aggression in women (Abell & Brewer, 2014).”
Analyzing the Links Between Problematic Social Media Use, Dark Triad Traits, and Self-esteem (2018, background): “Apparently, without an audience, presenting the selfimage does not mean anything for narcissists, and so they try to acquire new friends at the same time (Bergman et al. 2011; Carpenter 2012).”
Augment yourself through virtual mirror: the impact of self-viewing and narcissism on consumer responses (2018, background): “Meanwhile, more sophisticated methods such as mining consumers’ social media profiles may be useful for direct marketers to reveal core target consumers’ narcissistic tendency, because narcissistic consumers are shown to frequently post status updates and change profile pictures (Carpenter 2012).”