Social media and self-esteem
- The relationship between social media and self-esteem is complex, as studies tend to find a mixed pattern of relationships and meta-analyses tend to find small, albeit significant, magnitudes of statistical effects. One explanation is that social media use does not affect self-esteem for the majority of users, while small minorities experience either positive or negative effects, as evidenced by recent research calculating person specific within-person effects. This suggests that the true relationship between social media use and self-esteem is person-specific and based on individual susceptibilities and uses. In recognition of these advancements, we review recent empirical studies considering differential uses and moderating variables in the social media-self-esteem relationship, and conclude by discussing opportunities for future social media effects research.
Author details: | Drew CingelORCiD, Michael C. C. Carter, Hannes-Vincent KrauseORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101304 |
ISSN: | 2352-250X |
ISSN: | 2352-2518 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35245885 |
Title of parent work (English): | Current opinion in psychology |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/02/02 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2024/01/03 |
Tag: | Self-esteem; Self-reflection; Social comparison; Social feedback; Social media |
Volume: | 45 |
Article number: | 101304 |
Number of pages: | 6 |
Funding institution: | Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) [16DII127] |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Künste und Medien |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 304 Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren |
Peer review: | Referiert |