Influence of College Students' Use of Social Networking Sites on Self-Concept Clarity: Mediating Role of Social Comparison

DOI

10.2991/erss-18.2019.130How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social networking sites; social comparison; self-concept clarity; the mediating role.

Abstract

To explore the effect of college students' use of social networking sites and social comparison on self-concept clarity and its mechanism of action, the researchers used social networking websites use strength questionnaire, social comparison tendency questionnaire and self-concept clear questionnaire and investigated 697 college students. The results showed that: (1) social networking sites use strength and social comparison was significantly positively related, and the intensity of social networking sites use and social comparison tendency and self-concept clarity has a significant negative correlation. (2) the use of social networking sites not only has a significant direct predictive effect on self-concept clarity but also has an indirect effect on self-concept clarity through the social comparison tendency.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yazhi Liu
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TI  - Influence of College Students' Use of Social Networking Sites on Self-Concept Clarity: Mediating Role of Social Comparison
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Workshop on Education Reform and Social Sciences (ERSS 2018)
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EP  - 662
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