Social comparison, social media, and self-esteem.

EA Vogel, JP Rose, LR Roberts… - … of popular media culture, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
… exposure to social media-based social comparison information on … to upward social
comparisons on social media. Using an … upward and downward comparisons on social media is …

Upward and downward: Social comparison processing of thin idealized media images

M Tiggemann, J Polivy - Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study aimed to investigate the role of social comparisonmedia images on
mood and body dissatisfaction. We concluded that the dimensions on which social comparison

Social comparisons on social media: The impact of Facebook on young women's body image concerns and mood

J Fardouly, PC Diedrichs, LR Vartanian, E Halliwell - Body image, 2015 - Elsevier
… ) or worse (downward comparison) than themselves, such as … appearance comparison and
downward appearance comparison … for upward and downward comparisons when analyzed …

The impact of appearance comparisons made through social media, traditional media, and in person in women's everyday lives

J Fardouly, RT Pinkus, LR Vartanian - Body image, 2017 - Elsevier
social media and traditional media, participants made significantly more upward comparisons
than lateral or downward comparisons. … downward comparisons through both social media

Vulnerable Narcissism in social networking sites: The role of upward and downward social comparisons

F Kong, M Wang, X Zhang, X Li, X Sun - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… On the other hand, the results showed that both upward social comparison and downward
social comparison could significantly predict vulnerable narcissism. There are at least two …

When every day is a high school reunion: Social media comparisons and self-esteem.

C Midgley, S Thai, P Lockwood… - … personality and social …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
… Across studies, we predicted that participants would make more frequent upward than
downward social media comparisons, which in turn would negatively impact state self-esteem, …

Selective self-presentation and social comparison through photographs on social networking sites

J Fox, MA Vendemia - Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
… As such, we expect that women will report feeling better than men will after engaging in
downward social comparison on social media (H3). We anticipate that body image (H3a) and …

Who compares and despairs? The effect of social comparison orientation on social media use and its outcomes

EA Vogel, JP Rose, BM Okdie, K Eckles… - Personality and individual …, 2015 - Elsevier
… upward or downward comparison content to see whether, as previous research suggests,
high-SCO individuals would also respond more negatively to downward comparisons than low…

Impact of social media on self-esteem

M Jan, S Soomro, N Ahmad - European Scientific Journal, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
comparisons are upward social comparisons. Further this research proves there that there is
a strong relationship between social media … upward and downward comparisons with others…

Not necessarily detrimental: Two social comparison orientations and their associations with social media use and college social adjustment

C Yang, A Robinson - Computers in human behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
… Drawing on literature of social comparison and the activity-audience framework of social
media use, we studied social comparison as a personal characteristic (social comparison