Gaining likes, but at what cost? Longitudinal relations between young adults’ deceptive like-seeking on instagram, peer belonging and self-esteem

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Highlights：

• 63.5% of young adults had engaged in at least one deceptive behavior to gain Instagram likes.

• Deceptive like-seeking predicted weakened feelings of peer belonging across 3 months.

• Weaker feelings of peer belonging, however, did not predict changes in deceptive like-seeking.

• Deceptive like-seeking did not predict changes in self-esteem across 3 months.

• However, low self-esteem youth were significantly affected by peer norms for deceptive like-seeking.

摘要

•63.5% of young adults had engaged in at least one deceptive behavior to gain Instagram likes.•Deceptive like-seeking predicted weakened feelings of peer belonging across 3 months.•Weaker feelings of peer belonging, however, did not predict changes in deceptive like-seeking.•Deceptive like-seeking did not predict changes in self-esteem across 3 months.•However, low self-esteem youth were significantly affected by peer norms for deceptive like-seeking.

论文关键词：Deceptive like-seeking,Deception,Instagram,Likes,Self-esteem,Peer belonging

论文评审过程：Received 25 January 2020, Revised 16 May 2020, Accepted 22 June 2020, Available online 23 June 2020, Version of Record 16 July 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106467