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Mediating Effects of Inferiority Feeling and Moderating Effects of Self-esteem Stability on the Relationship between Upward Social Comparison and Depression: Focusing on Facebook Use by College Students
Abstract
This study explored whether inferiority feeling and self-concept clarity had any effects on the relationship between upward social comparison and depression of Facebook users who experienced on Facebook. To examine this, 184 male and female college student-participants were asked to complete questionnaires of upward social comparison, inferiority feeling, self-concept clarity and depression. As a result, upward social comparison was positively related to inferiority feeling and depression, but negatively related to self-concept clarity. Based on these correlations, we tested the mediating effects of inferiority feeling and moderating effects of self-concept clarity on the relationship between upward social comparison and depression. Our results showed that inferiority feeling had partial mediating effects on the relationship between upward social comparison and depression, suggesting that it was helpful for SNS users to deal with inferiority feeling at depression-arising situations from upward social comparison. Our results also revealed that self-concept clarity could moderate the relationship between upward social comparison and depression. Furthermore, a simple slope test suggested that the effects of upward social comparison on depression is decreased when the scores of self-concept clarity were high. These findings suggest that it is necessary for SNS users to understand himself or herself better. The implications and limitations of this study were discussed and future directions for this research were provided.
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- SNS, 상향비교, 우울, 자기개념 명확성, 열등감, SNS, upward social comparison, depression, self-concept clarity, inferiority feeling
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