Abstract:
Social media has been an increasingly utilized communication tool, and it has gained popularity among adolescent athletes. Our aim here was to investigate whether a positive and honest self-presentation on social media increased adolescent athletes\' self-esteem, and we examined the moderating effect of perceived responsiveness. After receiving informed consent of participants and their parents/legal guardians, we recruited 468 adolescent athletes/participants (244 males, 224 females; Mage = 15.39 years, SD = 1.61) through purposive sampling and engaged them in completing face-to-face or online self-report measures of their: (a) self-presentation on social media, (b) perceived responsiveness of others, and (c) Rosenberg self-esteem scales. Given the continuous nature of our moderating variable (i.e., perceived responsiveness), we conducted regression analysis using Hayes\'s PROCESS macro in SPSS software. A positive self-presentation showed no significant relationship with self-esteem, except when the level of perceived responsiveness was high. Conversely, an honest self-presentation was positively related to higher self-esteem, and the relationship between honest self-presentation and self-esteem was moderated by perceived responsiveness. Our findings extend existing psychological theory into the online environment and have practical implications. These data highlight the link between social media self-presentation and self-esteem among adolescent athletes and illustrate the crucial role of perceived responsiveness in the social media context.
摘要:
社交媒体已经成为一种越来越广泛使用的交流工具,它在青少年运动员中越来越受欢迎。我们的目的是调查社交媒体上的积极和诚实的自我展示是否会增加青少年运动员的自尊,我们研究了感知反应的调节作用。在获得参与者及其父母/法定监护人的知情同意后,我们招募了468名青少年运动员/参与者(244名男性,224名女性;法师=15.39岁,SD=1.61)通过有目的的抽样,并让他们完成他们的面对面或在线自我报告措施:(a)在社交媒体上的自我展示,(b)感知到他人的反应,和(C)罗森博格自尊量表。鉴于我们调节变量的连续性(即,感知的响应能力),我们在SPSS软件中使用Hayes的过程宏进行了回归分析。积极的自我呈现与自尊没有显著关系,除非感知反应性水平很高。相反,诚实的自我表现与更高的自尊呈正相关,诚实的自我表现和自尊之间的关系受到感知反应的调节。我们的发现将现有的心理学理论扩展到在线环境中,并具有实际意义。这些数据突出了青少年运动员社交媒体自我呈现和自尊之间的联系,并说明了感知反应在社交媒体环境中的关键作用。