Two faces of social comparison on Facebook: The interplay between social comparison orientation, emotions, and psychological well-being

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Highlights:

• Strong ability-based social comparison increases upward contrastive emotions.

• Strong ability-based social comparison increases downward assimilative emotions.

• Strong opinion-based social comparison reduces upward contrastive emotions.

• Upward contrastive emotions worsen Facebook users' psychological well-being.

• Downward assimilative emotions promote Facebook users' psychological well-being.

摘要

•Strong ability-based social comparison increases upward contrastive emotions.•Strong ability-based social comparison increases downward assimilative emotions.•Strong opinion-based social comparison reduces upward contrastive emotions.•Upward contrastive emotions worsen Facebook users' psychological well-being.•Downward assimilative emotions promote Facebook users' psychological well-being.

论文关键词:Social comparison orientation,Psychological well-being,Social comparison-based emotion,Structural equation modelling,Common method bias,Facebook

论文评审过程:Received 9 May 2017, Revised 18 September 2017, Accepted 16 October 2017, Available online 1 November 2017, Version of Record 5 November 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.028