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Materialists on Facebook: the self-regulatory role of social comparisons and the objectification of Facebook friends

In this study, we examine chronic materialism as a possible motive for Facebook usage. We test an explanatory mediation model predicting that materialists use Facebook more frequently, because they compare themselves to others, they objectify and instrumentalize others, and they accumulate friends....

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Autores principales: Ozimek, Phillip, Baer, Fiona, Förster, Jens
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29264409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00449