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

The Relationships of SNS Use, Social Achievement Goals, and Life Satisfaction: A Study of Korean College Students

“…Specifically, passive SNS use leads users to negative self-evaluation because the persons engaged in passive SNS use may receive little attention and feedback from others, which may undermine their positive perception of themselves (Chen et al, 2016). Also, when SNS users have an uppercomparison tendency that compares themselves with others who are better off, they are likely to have adverse psychological outcomes such as materialism or depression (Jeong & Hyun, 2015;Liu et al, 2017).…”

“…For example, college students who were satisfied with their social relationships were more likely to attain positive emotions while using SNS whereas those who had high levels of social comparison tendency or high social anxiety were more likely to feel negative emotions during using SNS (Hu et al, 2017;Krestes & Stulhofer 2020). Consistently, South Korean college students with maladaptive social orientation are vulnerable to depression during SNS use and are more likely to suffer from SNS addiction (Jeong & Hyun, 2015;Yang & Whang, 2018) However, the current knowledge of the roles of social orientations in the relationships between SNS use and life satisfaction is limited. Also, existing studies focus relatively little on students in non-western countries despite their heavy SNS usage.…”