Social comparison orientation mediates the association between HEXACO and self‐presentation

Abstract

Various researchers have investigated the personality correlates of defensive and assertive self‐presentation. Yet, only a few studies go beyond the direct relationships and examine the underlying mechanism. The current study examines whether the social comparison orientation (SCO) mediates the relationship between personality and self‐presentation. We also tested whether our proposed model is invariant across genders. We collected data from 496 individuals using the HEXACO personality inventory, the self‐presentation tactic scale, and Iowa–Netherlands SCO scale to test these hypotheses. The path analysis indicated that the partial mediation model provides the best fit to the data (root‐mean‐square error of approximation [RMSEA] = 0.08, comparative fit index [CFI] = 0.97, standardized root mean squared residual [SRMR] = 0.026). While honesty‐humility (β = −0.43) had the strongest total effect on assertive self‐presentation, emotionality (β = 0.34) had the strongest total effect on defensive self‐presentation among other HEXACO dimensions. Additionally, we conducted a multigroup path analysis to test the structural invariance, and the findings indicate that the relationships are invariant across women and men (Δχ2[14] = 11.83, p = 0.61). These findings suggest that the association between personality and self‐presentation might not be straightforward. The findings are discussed in relation to facet and factor level associations among the variables, self‐presentation strategies, and gender roles.

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“…In addition, there are studies researching self-objectivation of women which involved approval motivation in self-presentations in the Internet (Chen et al, 2022) and the impact of women's self-esteem on a self-presentation strategy in social networks . The research by S. Demir et al (2022) found that orientation toward social comparison determines a correlation between an individual and self-presentation. C. You et al (2022) think that permanent improvement of self-presentation in social networks can cause psychological addiction.…”

“…Цей перелік доповнюють дослідження, у яких відстежують самооб'єктивацію жінок, що передбачала мотивацію схвалення в самопрезентаціях всемережжя (Chen et al, 2022) та вплив жіночої самооцінки на стратегію самопрезентації в соціальних мережах . У дослідженні S. Demir et al (2022) з'ясовано, що орієнтація на соціальне порівняння опосередковує зв'язок між особистістю та самопрезентацією. Постійне вдосконалення самопрезентації в соціальних мережах може викликати психологічну залежність, на думку C. You et al (2022).…”