Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
11-2010
Abstract
Social networking sites such as Facebook have become extremely popular recently. In this research, we studied how Facebook browsing affects self-awareness and social well-being. Our results show that after Facebook browsing, individuals high in narcissism raised their public self-awareness while those low in narcissism reduced their public self-awareness. We also found that individuals low in narcissism perceived their friends' lives to be better than their own and consequently experienced negative social well-being and emotion. However, this effect did not occur for individuals high in narcissism.
Keywords
Psychology, Applied computing, Facebook, Social networking, self-awareness, narcissism, well-being
Discipline
Communication | Social Media | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
ACE 2010: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology: November 17-19, Taipei, Taiwan
Editor
Haller, M.; Kitamura, Y.
First Page
100
Last Page
101
ISBN
9781605588636
Identifier
10.1145/1971630.1971661
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
New York
Citation
Qui, Lin, Lin Han and Angela K. Y. Leung. 2010. "How does Facebook Browsing Affect Self-awareness and Social Well-being: The Role of Narcissism." In ACE 2010: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 100-101. New York: ACM.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/1971630.1971661
