Self-presentation and belonging on Facebook: How personality influences social media use and motivations
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Self-identity and self-esteem may be relevant to SNSs excessive use and addiction because SNSs allow self-presentation, and people with lower self-esteem tend to use SNSs to boost their positive self-perception.
“Last but not least, as a key feature of SNSs is allowing individuals to engage in different forms of self-presentation (Seidman, 2013), research has suggested that this may appeal to the different dimensions of self, such as self-identity and self-esteem (Lee et al., 2017b;Pelling & White, 2009).Thus, individuals may be attracted to indulge in SNSs use to derive their sense of self-identity (Lee”
From Till logout do us part? Comparison of factors predicting excessive social network sites use and addiction between Singaporean adolescents and adults (2017) · cites this paper as Seidman, 2013
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- Authors
- Seidman, G.
- Affiliations
- Albright College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Seidman, Gwendolyn
- ORCID
- Seidman, Gwendolyn
- Venue
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-02
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 402-407
- ISSN
- 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2151092491
- Cited by
- 920
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 26.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- self-presentation, Facebook use, sense of belonging, Big Five personality traits, neuroticism, agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, self-disclosure, ideal self, hidden self, motivations for social media use
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