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To What Extent can Extraversion Moderate the Relation Between Time Spent on Image-Based Social Media Platforms and Self-Esteem?
Strieckmann, Cara (2022) To What Extent can Extraversion Moderate the Relation Between Time Spent on Image-Based Social Media Platforms and Self-Esteem?
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| Abstract: | Self-esteem is an essential concept for individuals' mental health that is associated with social media and personality factors. This study investigates whether the personality factor of extraversion moderates the relation between image-based social media platforms and self-esteem, in hopes of gaining more insight into the association between personality, social media and self-esteem. An online questionnaire was created to measure participants' image-based social media screen times, as well as extraversion and self-esteem scores. The results indicate that extraversion moderated the relation between image-based social media screen time and self-esteem. However, the individual correlations between those variables show contrary results to previous research. Further exploration of the results as well as limitations and recommendations are discussed. Keywords: self-esteem, image-based social media, extraversion, social comparison |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/90972 |
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