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Selfie-engagement on social media: Pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – Which is more influential?

The current use of social media platforms by active young users/creators of visual content provides an easy medium to achieve narcissistic goals of self-promotion and attention-seeking, and to socialize with self-objectification experiences. One of the most popular activities associated with social...

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Autores principales: Boursier, Valentina, Gioia, Francesca, Griffiths, Mark D.
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Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32467852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100263
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author Boursier, Valentina
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Griffiths, Mark D.
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description The current use of social media platforms by active young users/creators of visual content provides an easy medium to achieve narcissistic goals of self-promotion and attention-seeking, and to socialize with self-objectification experiences. One of the most popular activities associated with social media use is selfie-sharing. Consequently, the global focus on online physical appearance approval could reinforce selfie-engagement as a specific body image-related behavior, potentially associated with selfie-marketing strategies for self-improvement, and problematic social media use. The present study evaluated the main direct effect of pathological narcissism, objectified body consciousness, and expectations toward selfies on young women’s and men’s selfie-engagement. A total of 570 young adults (66.8% females; mean age = 24.4 years, SD = 3.6) participated in an online survey study. Variables were assessed using the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (Fossati, Feeney, Pincus, Borroni, & Maffei, 2015), Objectified Body Consciousness Scale (Dakanalis et al., 2015), Selfie-expectancies Scale (Boursier & Manna, 2018), and a measure of selfie-engagement. Hierarchical regression analyses were performed on independent male and female subsamples. Results showed that body surveillance and positive selfie-expectancies are consistent selfie-behavior predictors, among both men (R(2) = 0.227; p < .001) and women (R(2) = 0.332; p < .001). Furthermore, findings confirm women’s involvement in appearance concerns and body-image related practices, even though men’s engagement in body-objectification deserve attention. The study provides novel findings in the field of self-objectification research as well as contributing to the ongoing debate concerning which psychological factors can be predictive of males’ and females’ selfie-engagement. The implications of these findings are also discussed in light of the debate on social media use and misuse.
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spelling pubmed-72449092020-05-27 Selfie-engagement on social media: Pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – Which is more influential? Boursier, Valentina Gioia, Francesca Griffiths, Mark D. Addict Behav Rep Articles from the Special Issue on Problematic Social Media Use: Conceptualization, Assessment and Trends in Scientific Literature; Edited by Silvia Casale The current use of social media platforms by active young users/creators of visual content provides an easy medium to achieve narcissistic goals of self-promotion and attention-seeking, and to socialize with self-objectification experiences. One of the most popular activities associated with social media use is selfie-sharing. Consequently, the global focus on online physical appearance approval could reinforce selfie-engagement as a specific body image-related behavior, potentially associated with selfie-marketing strategies for self-improvement, and problematic social media use. The present study evaluated the main direct effect of pathological narcissism, objectified body consciousness, and expectations toward selfies on young women’s and men’s selfie-engagement. A total of 570 young adults (66.8% females; mean age = 24.4 years, SD = 3.6) participated in an online survey study. Variables were assessed using the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (Fossati, Feeney, Pincus, Borroni, & Maffei, 2015), Objectified Body Consciousness Scale (Dakanalis et al., 2015), Selfie-expectancies Scale (Boursier & Manna, 2018), and a measure of selfie-engagement. Hierarchical regression analyses were performed on independent male and female subsamples. Results showed that body surveillance and positive selfie-expectancies are consistent selfie-behavior predictors, among both men (R(2) = 0.227; p < .001) and women (R(2) = 0.332; p < .001). Furthermore, findings confirm women’s involvement in appearance concerns and body-image related practices, even though men’s engagement in body-objectification deserve attention. The study provides novel findings in the field of self-objectification research as well as contributing to the ongoing debate concerning which psychological factors can be predictive of males’ and females’ selfie-engagement. The implications of these findings are also discussed in light of the debate on social media use and misuse. Elsevier 2020-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7244909/ /pubmed/32467852 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100263 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Articles from the Special Issue on Problematic Social Media Use: Conceptualization, Assessment and Trends in Scientific Literature; Edited by Silvia Casale
Boursier, Valentina
Gioia, Francesca
Griffiths, Mark D.
Selfie-engagement on social media: Pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – Which is more influential?
title Selfie-engagement on social media: Pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – Which is more influential?
title_full Selfie-engagement on social media: Pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – Which is more influential?
title_fullStr Selfie-engagement on social media: Pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – Which is more influential?
title_full_unstemmed Selfie-engagement on social media: Pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – Which is more influential?
title_short Selfie-engagement on social media: Pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – Which is more influential?
title_sort selfie-engagement on social media: pathological narcissism, positive expectation, and body objectification – which is more influential?
topic Articles from the Special Issue on Problematic Social Media Use: Conceptualization, Assessment and Trends in Scientific Literature; Edited by Silvia Casale
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32467852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100263
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