Een onderzoek naar de invloed van zelfrepresentatie op Facebook door een cyberpsychologe, Soraya Mehdizadeh. Had nog nooit van het beroep gehoord. De steekproef is behoorlijk klein, maar het geeft een leuke aanzet.
Kleine update: de causaliteit van wat oorzaak en gevolg is in deze is natuurlijk niet duidelijk. (thanks @PeterKerkhof)
Abstract: “Online social networking sites have revealed an entirely new method of self-presentation. This cyber social tool provides a new site of analysis to examine personality and identity. The current study examines how narcissism and self-esteem are manifested on the social networking Web site Facebook.com. Self-esteem and narcissistic personality self-reports were collected from 100 Facebook users at York University. Participant Web pages were also coded based on self-promotional content features. Correlation analyses revealed that individuals higher in narcissism and lower in self-esteem were related to greater online activity as well as some self-promotional content. Gender differences were found to influence the type of self-promotional content presented by individual Facebook users. Implications and future research directions of narcissism and self-esteem on social networking Web sites are discussed.”