Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology
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Vol.34 No.1
Abstract
This study investigated the effect of social network services (SNS) on implicit and explicit self-esteem, according to users’ self-disclosure levels. 294 university students were recruited, with 88 SNS users selected and assigned to high-addiction and low-addiction groups, each having scored above or below 15% on the SNS Addiction Tendency Scale. Measured by Online Self-Disclosure Questionnaires, participants were distributed into an SNS high-addiction / high-disclosure group (HH; N = 30), an SNS high-addiction / low-disclosure group (HL; n=30), and an SNS low-addiction control group (LN; N = 28; control). A Self-Esteem Implicit Association Test and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale were both used, finding that the HL group showed lower implicit self-esteem compared to the LN, but no significant difference in explicit self-esteem. Meanwhile, the HH group showed lower explicit self-esteem compared to the LN, with significant difference in implicit self-esteem. Individuals with SNS addiction tendencies, avoiding self-disclosure, showed defensive self-esteem characterized by low implicit self-esteem. Those who frequently disclosed themselves on SNS showed fragile self-esteem, characterized by low explicit self-esteem. This study confirms the differential effect of self-disclosure among SNS addiction tendencies, accounting for subtypes of self-esteem, and calls for intervention concerning defensive and fragile self-esteem.
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Previous research has shown that humor buffers the adverse effects of negative life events on mental and physical health. A closer look at the literature, however, reveals the limitations of the previous research: 1) The evidence for the stress-buffering effect of humor is inconsistent; 2) The time period of the extant longitudinal studies is not more than three months; 3) and whether humor works independently of other stress-buffering variables has never been tested. Therefore, the present study examined through a one-year longitudinal study whether humor buffers the adverse effects of negative life events independently of social support and optimism, representative variables of stress-buffering. More specifically, with 244 undergraduate participants, it was investigated whether negative major life events for the past one year adversely affect eight mental and physical health variables (subjective well-being, life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, stress, depression, physical symptoms, and weight) and whether humor buffers the adverse effects. Regression analyses revealed the adverse effects of negative life events on six mental and physical health variables (subjective well-being, negative affect, stress, depression, physical symptoms, and weight) and the buffering effect of humor on the five mental and physical health variables except depression among the six. Controlling for social support or optimism in the regression analyses did not change the result. This finding suggests that humor buffers stress independently of social support and optimism, and that the effect lasts for a considerable period of time.
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This study compared blaming the victim and perpetrator by participants’ sex and age in different types of crime. A total of 323 participants(179 female, 144 male) classified into four groups by their age(20~29, 30~39, 40~49, 50~59) read a case of rape and assault and rated on victim and perpetrator blaming and perpetrator sentencing. Additionally, participants were asked to rate ambivalent sexism scale and acceptance of interpersonal violence scale in order to examine how their ambivalent sexism and acceptance of interpersonal violence affected evaluations of victim and perpetrator. The results showed that there existed differences in blaming victim and perpetrator between rape and assault cases. In a rape case, the age of participants had an effect on victim-blaming, such that the older the participants, the more they blamed the victim. This effect was mediated by hostile sexism. In an assault case, male participants blamed the perpetrator less than female participants did, which was mediated by acceptance of interpersonal violence. This study is the first research in South Korea that compared judgment toward victim and perpetrator between sexual violence and non-sexual violence, considering participants’ age as well as their sex.