Ozimek, P.; Brandenberg, G.; Rohmann, E.; Bierhoff, H.-W. The Impact of Social Comparisons More Related to Ability vs. More Related to Opinion on Well-Being: An Instagram Study. Behav. Sci.2023, 13, 850.
Ozimek, P.; Brandenberg, G.; Rohmann, E.; Bierhoff, H.-W. The Impact of Social Comparisons More Related to Ability vs. More Related to Opinion on Well-Being: An Instagram Study. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 850.
Ozimek, P.; Brandenberg, G.; Rohmann, E.; Bierhoff, H.-W. The Impact of Social Comparisons More Related to Ability vs. More Related to Opinion on Well-Being: An Instagram Study. Behav. Sci.2023, 13, 850.
Ozimek, P.; Brandenberg, G.; Rohmann, E.; Bierhoff, H.-W. The Impact of Social Comparisons More Related to Ability vs. More Related to Opinion on Well-Being: An Instagram Study. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 850.
Abstract
Social networks are experiencing great popularity, with Instagram currently being the most intensively used network. On these platforms, users are continuously exposed to self-relevant information that fosters social comparisons. A distinction is made between ability-based and opinion-based comparison dimensions. To experimentally investigate the influence of these comparison dimensions on users' subjective well-being, an online exposition experiment (N = 409) was conducted. In a preliminary study (N = 107), adequate exposition stimulus material was selected in advance. The results of the main study indicated that exposition of ability-related social comparisons in the context of social media elicited lower well-being than exposition of opinion-related social comparisons. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed and suggestions for future work were outlined.
Keywords
instagram; social networking sites (SNS); social comparison orientation; well-being
Subject
Social Sciences, Behavior Sciences
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