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How exposure to peers’ Portrayal of luxury lifestyles on social media hurts the self

Year: 2017

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Findings of two experimental studies show that exposure to peers' Instagram accounts portraying a luxurious lifestyle may negatively affect one's state self-esteem, due to negative social comparison.Exposure to peers' luxurious lifestyle leads to the notion that the signaler is better off, decreasing one's state self-esteem.Moreover, these negative effects on state self-esteem are stronger for highly materialistic individuals.Though, luxuriously looking Instagram accounts of peers may also cause inferences of the signaler being a braggart.However, results show that this bragging only leads to negative effects on state self-esteem for highly materialistic individuals and not for less materialistic individuals.

Source: Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)

Authors: Marijke De Veirman, Veroline Cauberghe, Liselot Hudders

Language: English

Topic: Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2760122319

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Cites: 15

Cited by: 4

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