Relationship social comparisons: Your facebook page affects my relationship and personal well-being

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Highlights:

• We manipulated Facebook profiles about a couple's intimate relationship.

• Comparison direction predicted individuals' comparison interpretations.

• Bootstrapping indicated direct and indirect effects of interpretations.

• Interpretations were important predictors of self and relationship outcomes.

• Manipulated online relationship comparisons affected offline relationships.

摘要

•We manipulated Facebook profiles about a couple's intimate relationship.•Comparison direction predicted individuals' comparison interpretations.•Bootstrapping indicated direct and indirect effects of interpretations.•Interpretations were important predictors of self and relationship outcomes.•Manipulated online relationship comparisons affected offline relationships.

论文关键词:Facebook,Social comparison,Dating relationship,Cognition,Interpretation,Mediation

论文评审过程:Received 9 September 2017, Revised 22 January 2018, Accepted 28 January 2018, Available online 3 February 2018, Version of Record 5 February 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.01.038