ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2023
The Impact of Social Comparisons More Related to Ability vs. More Related to Opinion on Well-Being: An Instagram Study.
Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Longitudinal effects of social media feedback on psychological distress in young adults: the mediating roles of self-esteem and social comparison.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Developmental Trajectories of Basic Psychological Need Frustration in Early and Middle Adolescence and Their Associations with Mental Health.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Social media fatigue in nursing students: the role of self-control, social comparison, and fear of missing out.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Social comparison and mental health among academics in Qatar: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Cyber upward social comparison and well-being among college students: the chain mediating roles of self-esteem and emotional regulation.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Social networks are gaining widespread popularity, with Instagram currently being the most intensively used network. On these platforms, users are continuously exposed to self-relevant information that fosters social comparisons. A distinction is made between ability-based and opinion-based comparison dimensions. To experimentally investigate the influence of these comparison dimensions on users' subjective well-being, an online exposure experiment (
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