The use of social media as a two-way mirror for narcissistic adolescents from Austria, Belgium, South-Korea, and Spain.

ABSTRACT: The use of social networking sites (SNS or social media) often comes with strong self-centered behaviors to promote self-appearance. The relationship between narcissism and social media use has intensively occupied scholars in the last decade, yet not much research has focused on, first, how the intensity of social media use (SNS use) is associated with narcissism through a self-centered appearance focused use of these SNS; and second, whether these associations are moderated or not by cultural differences of the country of origin in such a critical age of personality formation and (global) culturalization as the transition from pre-adolescence to adolescence. We performed a correlation and mediation analysis on a cross-sectional survey among Austrian, Belgian, Spanish, and South Korean ad

SUBMITTER: Mas Manchon L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9432699 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature