Do Our Facebook Friends Make Us Feel Worse? A Study of Social Comparison and Emotion

Liu, Jiangmeng; Liu, Cong; Carcioppolo, Nick; North, Michael S.

doi:10.1111/hcre.12090

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“…That is to say, the participants had a stronger motivation to get favorable outcomes when they were comparing with a dislikeable player, possibly because they wanted to outperform that player (see also Lott and Lott, 1969 ). In line with our interpretation, individuals are particularly motivated to protect their self-interest when interacting with distrust people ( Lewicki et al. , 1998 ).…”

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Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study

Zhang

Ming

et al. 2021

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Social comparison is a common behavior that largely determines people’s experience of decision outcome. Previous research has showed that interpersonal relationship plays a pivotal role in social comparison. In the current study, we investigated whether the manipulation of context-based relationship would affect participants’ comparison of self-outcome and other-outcome. Participants first finished a trust game with likeable (dislikeable) partner and then they were involved in a gambling task and observed the outcomes for themselves and for partners. According to self-reports, participants were more satisfied with likeable partner’s gains than losses only when they received gains, but they were always more satisfied with dislikeable player’s losses compared to gains. Event-related potentials including the feedback-related negativity (FRN), P3 and late positive component (LPC) were sensitive to context-based relationship. Specifically, the prediction error signal (indexed by the FRN) was largest when participants received losses but dislikeable player received gains. Meanwhile, the P3 indicates that participants had stronger motivation to outperform dislikeable player. Finally, the LPC was larger when participants received the same outcomes with dislikeable players. In general, our results support the key point of the self-evaluation maintenance model that personal closeness modulates subjective sensitivity when drawing a comparison of one’s outcomes with other’s outcomes.

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confidence: 78%

Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study

Zhang

Ming

et al. 2021

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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“…In the acquaintance condition, participants selected an acquaintance and browsed only the posts uploaded by this individual. An acquaintance was defined as an individual who is approximately the same age and gender, who posts relatively frequently, and someone who is not and has never been close friends with the participant (as browsing the content of close friends can have differential effects than browsing content from acquaintances or strangers; Lin and Utz, 2015;Liu et al, 2016). More specifically, participants were encouraged to choose a target that they knew from high school, but were not friends with then or friends with now.…”

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“…More research is needed that assesses how closeness to the browsing target may influence effects on well-being. There is some evidence that browsing the SNS content of close friends can boost well-being (Lin and Utz, 2015;Liu et al, 2016). We did not include close friends as a condition in the current study due to our focus on acquaintances, whose content is more common on SNSs (Manago et al, 2012;De Meo et al, 2014), and to maximize power.…”

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Browsing Different Instagram Profiles and Associations With Psychological Well-Being

Burnell

George

Underwood³

2020

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Social networking sites (SNSs) may be transforming young people's social experiences, and browsing SNSs in particular may harm psychological well-being. However, browsing different types of SNS profiles may differentially relate to psychological well-being. In a large and ethnically diverse sample of emerging adults (N = 405), this experimental study examined changes in state affect and self-perceptions after browsing one of three different types of profiles on Instagram: an acquaintance, an influencer, or one's own profile. Moreover, this study investigated how individual characteristics may moderate relations between browsing and well-being, by exploring feedback seeking behaviors and the fear of missing out. Browsing one's own Instagram profile led to positive changes in psychological well-being, whereas browsing the profile of either an acquaintance or an Instagram influencer led to negative changes in psychological well-being. Many observed effects, especially those found for the acquaintance and influencer conditions, were moderated by participants' dispositional levels of the fear of missing out and feedback seeking, in which effects were primarily observed for those higher in these characteristics. Findings suggest that SNSs may have positive or negative effects on well-being depending on who is online and what those individuals are browsing.

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“…Emotional competence, intended as the awareness and expression of affect, emotion identification, situational knowledge, and emotion regulation, is essential for positive social behaviour (Denham et al, 2003;Domitrovich, Cortes, & Greenberg, 2007;Liu, Li, Carcioppolo, & North, 2016;Savage, 2002). The theory of emotional intelligence provides a unified framework to study the role of emotional abilities in social functioning (Mayer & Salovey, 1997;Salovey & Mayer, 1990).…”

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Do men post and women view? The role of gender, personality and emotions in online social activity

Rollero¹,

Daniele²,

Tartaglia³

2019

Cyberpsychology

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According to Nadkarni and Hofmann’s model (2012), a major motivator of social networking sites (SNS) use is the need to belong, i.e., the basic drive to form and maintain relationships. This need can be fulfilled through two kinds of belongingness-related behaviours: information-seeking (using SNS to learn about others) and communication (using SNS to communicate with others). The present study aimed at examining the role of gender, personality traits and emotional competence on each of these two belongingness-related behaviours. A total of 995 self-selected Italian Internet users (67.1% women; age range: 18-56) participated in the study. Results showed that the two online behaviours are influenced by different variables. Among them, the most relevant appear to be emotional competences, as managing emotions reduces both behaviours, using emotions fosters communication, and understanding emotions decreases information-seeking. Extraversion plays a key role as well, promoting both behaviours in women and information-seeking in men, whereas openness to experiences is positively linked to viewing others’ profiles. Finally, men use social networking sites to communicate and express their opinions more often than women. Implications are discussed.

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Do Our Facebook Friends Make Us Feel Worse? A Study of Social Comparison and Emotion

Cited by 43 publications

References 82 publications

Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study

Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study

Browsing Different Instagram Profiles and Associations With Psychological Well-Being

Do men post and women view? The role of gender, personality and emotions in online social activity

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