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TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2021.101709
Keywords
Social media addiction; Dispositional authenticity; Selfitis; Online authentic self-presentation; Online idealized self-exhibition
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The study examined the direct and indirect effects of three components of authentic personality on social media addiction, finding that self-alienation played an important role in increasing the risk of addiction, whereas the traits of accepting external influence and authenticity had opposing indirect effects on addiction risk.
Much previous research has focused on the important role played by personality constructs in developing addictive use of social media. However, no investigation has yet been conducted examining the association between dispositional authenticity and online self-idealization, or the authentic self-expression hypothesis and the risk of becoming addicted to social media. To fill this gap, the present study tested a path model that hypothesized direct and indirect effects of the three components of authentic personality on social media addiction via selfitis behaviors. Participants (N = 490; Mage = 20.31 years, SD = 3.76) recruited from high schools and universities completed a self-report survey assessing the three authentic personality traits, selfitis behaviors, and social media addiction. Results generally confirmed the supposed pathways. Direct and indirect effects on social media addiction were discussed by integrating the two mechanisms of compensation related to individual dispositions with the online self-idealizing and authentic selfexpression hypothesis underlying selfitis behaviors. Whereas self-alienation was found to have positive direct and indirect effects on increasing of the likelihood of becoming addicted to social media, both traits of the tendency to accept external influence and authenticity showed indirect effects in opposite directions on the risk of addictive use of social media. Findings from the present study extend previous research by exploring inter-individual differences in predisposing and reinforcing factors associated with the online self-presentation.
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