Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships
Computers in Human Behavior
Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
Who interacts on the Web?: The intersection of users' personality and social media use
Computers in Human Behavior
Social network activity and social well-being
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social network use and personality
Computers in Human Behavior
Personality and patterns of Facebook usage
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference
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The social comparison theory and its subsequent studies say that comparing with others can influence an individual in several ways (e.g., evaluation of oneself, influence on self-esteem/self-confidence, and efficient decision making) and people compare with others when they are confronted with information of others. With the popularity of social network sites, many people acquire or are exposed to information of others on social network sites, which implies that people are likely to frequently engage in social comparison behavior on social network sites. The present paper examines social comparison behavior on social network sites (especially on Facebook) using a college students sample. We find that an individual's personality characteristics (i.e., social comparison orientation, self-esteem, self-uncertainty, and self-consciousness) influence the person's social comparison frequency on Facebook. A positive relationship between Facebook use intensity and social comparison frequency on Facebook is found. In addition, we find a positive association between social comparison frequency on Facebook and the frequency of having a negative feeling from comparison. Other findings are also reported in the paper.