- Title
- Insta-identity: dark personality traits as predictors of authentic self-presentation on Instagram
- Creator
- Geary, Christina; March, Evita; Grieve, Rachel
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179091
- Identifier
- vital:15504
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101669
- Identifier
- ISBN:0736-5853 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- People vary in the extent to which they present themselves authentically online. This study applied Uses and Gratifications Theory to investigate the utility of grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism, primary psychopathy, secondary psychopathy, and Machiavellianism in predicting authentic self-presentation on Instagram. Participants (N = 542; 62.9% women; 60.1% Australian) with a currently active Instagram account were recruited via social media advertisements and completed an online questionnaire assessing personality and authenticity. Instagram authenticity was operationalised as Euclidean distances between the true self and the Instagram self. Results partially supported hypotheses, with higher levels of trait vulnerable narcissism and Machiavellianism predicting less congruence between the true self and the Instagram self (i.e., inauthenticity). Grandiose narcissism, primary psychopathy, and secondary psychopathy were not significant predictors of authentic self-presentation on Instagram. Findings of the current study extend previous research exploring authentic self-presentation on social media and are interpreted in line with uses and gratifications. We recommend further exploration of variation in authentic self-presentation on Instagram, from normative forms to outright deception. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Telematics and Informatics Vol. 63, no. (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd.
- Subject
- 0806 Information Systems; 0899 Other Information and Computing Sciences; Authenticity; Dark Triad; Instagram; Online self-presentation; Social media; Vulnerable narcissism
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