Relationships between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, and Personality in U.S. College Students
U.S. college students (N = 200) completed measures of Facebook use, friendship contingent self-esteem, personality, and narcissism. Those who strongly connected their self-esteem with their quality of friendship relationships were predicted to be more active Facebook users. As predicted, a significa...
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| author | Terry F. Pettijohn II Kimberly E. LaPiene Terry F. Pettijohn Amanda L. Horting |
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| description | U.S. college students (N = 200) completed measures of Facebook use, friendship contingent self-esteem, personality, and narcissism. Those who strongly connected their self-esteem with their quality of friendship relationships were predicted to be more active Facebook users. As predicted, a significant positive relationship between Facebook intensity and friendship contingent self-esteem was found. No significant relationships between Facebook use and personality or narcissism were discovered. Implications for how and why college students use social networking media are discussed, including connections to previous research which discuss the relationship between high friendship contingent self-esteem and risk for depressive symptoms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d021eac982044a7bbfe78aa0bc8629822024-03-23T13:15:50ZengMasaryk UniversityCyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace1802-79622012-07-016110.5817/CP2012-1-2Relationships between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, and Personality in U.S. College StudentsTerry F. Pettijohn IIKimberly E. LaPieneTerry F. PettijohnAmanda L. HortingU.S. college students (N = 200) completed measures of Facebook use, friendship contingent self-esteem, personality, and narcissism. Those who strongly connected their self-esteem with their quality of friendship relationships were predicted to be more active Facebook users. As predicted, a significant positive relationship between Facebook intensity and friendship contingent self-esteem was found. No significant relationships between Facebook use and personality or narcissism were discovered. Implications for how and why college students use social networking media are discussed, including connections to previous research which discuss the relationship between high friendship contingent self-esteem and risk for depressive symptoms.https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/4257facebooksocial networkingself-esteempersonalitycollege student |
| spellingShingle | Terry F. Pettijohn II Kimberly E. LaPiene Terry F. Pettijohn Amanda L. Horting Relationships between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, and Personality in U.S. College Students Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace social networking self-esteem personality college student |
| title | Relationships between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, and Personality in U.S. College Students |
| title_full | Relationships between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, and Personality in U.S. College Students |
| title_fullStr | Relationships between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, and Personality in U.S. College Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationships between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, and Personality in U.S. College Students |
| title_short | Relationships between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, and Personality in U.S. College Students |
| title_sort | relationships between facebook intensity friendship contingent self esteem and personality in u s college students |
| topic | facebook social networking self-esteem personality college student |
| url | https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/4257 |
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