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Narcissism and Social Media: The Role of Communal Narcissism
Agentic narcissism and vulnerable narcissism have been widely studied in relation to social media use. However, with research on communal narcissism in its early stages, the current study examines communal narcissism in relation to social media use. Specifically, the current study investigates wheth...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639406 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910106 |
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author | Kristinsdottir, Kolbrun Harpa Gylfason, Haukur Freyr Sigurvinsdottir, Rannveig |
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description | Agentic narcissism and vulnerable narcissism have been widely studied in relation to social media use. However, with research on communal narcissism in its early stages, the current study examines communal narcissism in relation to social media use. Specifically, the current study investigates whether communal narcissism is related to use and frequency of use of the popular social networking sites Instagram, Reddit and Twitter, and if communal narcissism relates to the importance of receiving feedback and to the quality-rating of self-presented content on those platforms. A total of 334 individuals were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, with two-thirds being male (66.7%). A regression analysis showed that communal narcissism was related to increased use of Instagram and Twitter but not Reddit. Sharing content, the importance of feedback and better than average ratings had positive associations with communal narcissism. The relationship between communal narcissism and sharing on social media was fully mediated by wanting validation on social media and higher ratings of self-presented content. Communal narcissism had a notably strong relationship with wanting validation on all platforms and our results suggest that communal narcissism might be especially relevant in the context of social media use. |
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spelling | pubmed-85081052021-10-13 Narcissism and Social Media: The Role of Communal Narcissism Kristinsdottir, Kolbrun Harpa Gylfason, Haukur Freyr Sigurvinsdottir, Rannveig Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Agentic narcissism and vulnerable narcissism have been widely studied in relation to social media use. However, with research on communal narcissism in its early stages, the current study examines communal narcissism in relation to social media use. Specifically, the current study investigates whether communal narcissism is related to use and frequency of use of the popular social networking sites Instagram, Reddit and Twitter, and if communal narcissism relates to the importance of receiving feedback and to the quality-rating of self-presented content on those platforms. A total of 334 individuals were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, with two-thirds being male (66.7%). A regression analysis showed that communal narcissism was related to increased use of Instagram and Twitter but not Reddit. Sharing content, the importance of feedback and better than average ratings had positive associations with communal narcissism. The relationship between communal narcissism and sharing on social media was fully mediated by wanting validation on social media and higher ratings of self-presented content. Communal narcissism had a notably strong relationship with wanting validation on all platforms and our results suggest that communal narcissism might be especially relevant in the context of social media use. MDPI 2021-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8508105/ /pubmed/34639406 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910106 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kristinsdottir, Kolbrun Harpa Gylfason, Haukur Freyr Sigurvinsdottir, Rannveig Narcissism and Social Media: The Role of Communal Narcissism |
title | Narcissism and Social Media: The Role of Communal Narcissism |
title_full | Narcissism and Social Media: The Role of Communal Narcissism |
title_fullStr | Narcissism and Social Media: The Role of Communal Narcissism |
title_full_unstemmed | Narcissism and Social Media: The Role of Communal Narcissism |
title_short | Narcissism and Social Media: The Role of Communal Narcissism |
title_sort | narcissism and social media: the role of communal narcissism |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639406 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910106 |
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