European Academic Research ISSN 2286-4822
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Article Name :
Hidden from your Timeline: Facebook Envy and Self-esteem of the Filipino Youth
Author Name :
RACIDON P. BERNARTE, ANGELA CLARIZ G. DEL ROSARIO PRECIOUS JOY M. PACHO REGINE V. RABOY
Publisher :
Bridge Center
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Abstract :
Facebook is todays most famous social networking site obtaining over a billion users around the globe. Because of the enormous exchange of social information, Facebook became a window to the world that enabled its users to compare their selves to other people. Hence, this might lead to envy that may affect its user’s selfesteem. To find out the relevance of the claim, the researchers aimed to explore the Facebook envy of the Filipino youth and test if it has a relationship on the level of their self-esteem. Different factors such as scopes of envy, types of envy, social comparison, and Facebook exposure, were considered in determining the relationship of Facebook envy and self-esteem. The study used quantitative research approach, specifically descriptive, and correlation method, in order to analyze the gathered data. A self-administered survey was distributed to 396 randomly selected respondents who were college students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. General findings revealed that the respondents experience Benign Facebook envy rather than Malicious. In this study, seven scopes of Facebook envy were presented. Results showed that only two out of these scopes, namely Travel and Leisure and Social Interaction have appeared to have a significant relationship to the level of self-esteem of the respondents
Keywords :
Envy, Facebook, Social comparison, Self-esteem, Upward Social Comparison, Downward Social Comparison
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