Discerning Selfiers: Differences between Taking and Sharing Selfies
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Studying Selfies
1.2. Personal and Masspersonal Photography
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Sample
2.2. Procedure
2.3. Measures
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Item Analysis
3.2. Exploratory Factor Analysis
3.3. Cluster Analysis
3.4. Individual Differences by Selfier Types
3.5. Mediation Analysis
4. Discussion
4.1. Taking vs. Sharing Selfies
4.2. Clusters of Selfiers
4.3. Limitations and Future Directions
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Likelihood | Factor Loadings | |||||
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Scenario | Take M (SD) | Share M (SD) | Take vs. Share t (p-Value) | Factor | Take | Share |
You are celebrating a regular personal event (e.g., birthday, anniversary). | 3.16 (1.45) | 3.01 (1.41) | 2.24 (0.027) | Pleasant | 0.77 | 0.64 |
You are spending time with your significant other. | 3.02 (1.38) | 2.77 (1.37) | 3.46 (<0.001) | Pleasant | 0.76 | 0.69 |
You are spending time with family. | 2.83 (1.38) | 2.71 (1.43) | 1.93 (0.055) | Pleasant | 0.73 | 0.69 |
You are spending time with friends. | 3.19 (1.37) | 3.00 (1.41) | 2.93 (0.004) | Pleasant | 0.61 | 0.55 |
You are attending a special event (e.g., graduation, concert). | 3.22 (1.33) | 3.09 (1.39) | 1.99 (0.048) | Pleasant | 0.58 | 0.56 |
You feel good about some part of your body, including your clothes, hair, etc. | 2.87 (1.56) | 2.69 (1.49) | 3.15 (0.002) | Pleasant | 0.55 | 0.54 |
You are on vacation. | 3.69 (1.26) | 3.48 (1.33) | 3.53 (<0.001) | Pleasant | 0.51 | 0.51 |
You are playing with your pet (e.g., cat, dog, hamster). | 2.95 (1.47) | 2.76 (1.50) | 2.81 (0.005) | Pleasant | 0.46 | 0.45 |
You are upset and have been crying. | 1.59 (1.09) | 1.58 (1.07) | 0.33 (0.74) | Challenging | 0.89 | 0.90 |
You are having a bad hair day. | 1.74 (1.16) | 1.69 (1.08) | 1.34 (0.18) | Challenging | 0.84 | 0.85 |
You put on an outfit and you feel that it looks silly. | 2.28 (1.41) | 2.19 (1.39) | 1.75 (0.081) | Challenging | 0.47 | 0.56 |
You are at the gym. | 2.13 (1.38) | 2.13 (1.40) | 0.00 (1.00) | Challenging | 0.46 | 0.62 |
You are in the presence of a famous person that you admire. | 3.66 (1.29) | 3.48 (1.38) | 3.02 (0.003) | Single 1 | 0.85 | 0.74 |
You have been drinking with friends and you are having a good time. | 2.84 (1.45) | 2.54 (1.35) | 4.19 (<0.001) | Single 2 | 0.57 | 0.68 |
Several of your friends have posted themed selfies and invited you to post a themed selfie as well. | 3.19 (1.42) | 3.00 (1.41) | 3.45 (<0.001) | Single 3 | 0.74 | 0.84 |
Likelihood | |||
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Selfier Type | Take M (SD) | Share M (SD) | Take vs. Share t (p-Value) |
Discerning (n = 63) | |||
Pleasant Scenarios | 4.07 (0.53) | 3.89 (0.62) | 3.05 (0.003) |
Challenging Scenarios | 1.78 (0.48) | 1.67 (0.47) | 3.74 (<0.001) |
Pleasant vs. Challenging t (p-value) | 32.08 (<0.001) | 2.87 (<0.001) | |
Non-discerning (n = 44) | |||
Pleasant Scenarios | 3.53 (0.69) | 3.46 (0.58) | 0.85 (0.400) |
Challenging Scenarios | 3.38 (0.64) | 3.44 (0.62) | 0.79 (0.435) |
Pleasant vs. Challenging t (p-value) | 1.51 (0.138) | 0.267 (0.790) | |
Low (n = 74) | |||
Pleasant Scenarios | 2.06 (0.69) | 1.82 (0.58) | 3.61 (<0.001) |
Challenging Scenarios | 1.21 (0.38) | 1.17 (0.35) | 2.71 (0.008) |
Pleasant vs. Challenging t (p-value) | 10.28 (<0.001) | 9.61 (<0.001) |
Individual Difference | Discerning M (SD) | Non-Discerning M (SD) | Low M (SD) | Discerning vs. Non-Discerning t (p-Value) | Discerning vs. Low t (p-Value) | Non-Discerning vs. Low t (p-Value) |
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Public Self-Consciousness | 2.76 (0.72) | 2.75 (0.52) | 2.67 (0.80) | 0.07 (0.947) | 0.65 (0.514) | 0.57 (0.569) |
Need to Belong | 3.25 (0.73) | 3.11 (0.38) | 2.98 (0.68) | 1.14 (0.259) | 2.13 (0.035) | 1.10 (0.275) |
Perceptions of (Online) Feedback | 3.55 (0.53) | 3.45 (0.48) | 3.18 (0.60) | 1.03 (0.306) | 3.82 (<0.001) | 2.52 (0.013) |
SSE Performance | 1.80 (0.27) | 1.43 (0.20) | 1.75 (0.26) | 7.70 (<0.001) | 1.05 (0.295) | 6.99 (<0.001) |
SSE Social | 3.90 (0.87) | 3.00 (0.94) | 3.85 (0.97) | 5.11 (<0.001) | 0.40 (0.693) | 4.62 (<0.001) |
SSE Appearance | 4.19 (0.72) | 4.27 (0.61) | 3.88 (0.70) | 0.57 (0.570) | 2.61 (0.010) | 3.09 (0.003) |
LOC Internal | 4.90 (0.85) | 4.27 (1.06) | 4.65 (0.98) | 3.39 (<0.001) | 1.48 (0.142) | 2.05 (0.042) |
LOC External | 2.68 (1.26) | 3.97 (0.99) | 2.96 (1.34) | 5.63 (<0.001) | 0.29 (0.770) | 5.87 (<0.001) |
LOC Chance | 2.83 (1.17) | 3.93 (1.13) | 2.76 (1.30) | 4.84 (<0.001) | 0.30 (0.764) | 4.91 (<0.001) |
Path | St ß | Unst B | se | t | p | LLCI | ULCI | ||
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(a) | |||||||||
Selfier Type | → | LOC Internal | 0.7249 | 0.7182 | 0.1809 | 3.9714 | <0.001 | 0.3598 | 1.0766 |
Selfier Type | → | LOC External | −0.8964 | −1.2124 | 0.2373 | −5.1087 | <0.001 | −1.6828 | −0.7421 |
Selfier Type | → | LOC Chance | −0.7712 | −0.9736 | 0.2282 | −4.2656 | <0.001 | −1.4259 | −0.5213 |
LOC Internal | → | SSE Perform | 0.3372 | 0.1015 | 0.0197 | 5.1438 | <0.001 | 0.0624 | 0.1406 |
LOC External | → | SSE Perform | −0.2423 | −0.0534 | 0.0237 | −2.2503 | 0.0265 | −0.1005 | −0.0064 |
LOC Chance | → | SSE Perform | −0.1753 | −0.0414 | 0.0246 | −1.6825 | 0.0954 | −0.0902 | 0.0074 |
Selfier Type | → | SSE Perform | 1.234 | 0.3671 | 0.0465 | 7.8988 | <0.001 | 0.2750 | 0.4592 |
Selfier Type | → | SSE Perform’ | 0.6346 | 0.1892 | 0.0433 | 4.3654 | <0.001 | 0.1033 | 0.2751 |
(b) | |||||||||
Selfier Type | → | LOC Internal | 0.7249 | 0.2182 | 0.1809 | 3.9714 | <0.001 | 0.3598 | 1.0766 |
Selfier Type | → | LOC External | −0.8964 | −1.2124 | 0.2373 | −5.1087 | <0.001 | −1.6828 | −0.7421 |
Selfier Type | → | LOC Chance | −0.7712 | −0.9736 | 0.2282 | −4.2656 | <0.001 | −1.4259 | −0.5213 |
LOC Internal | → | SSE Social | 0.1735 | 0.0889 | 0.0457 | 1.9442 | 0.0545 | −0.0017 | 0.1795 |
LOC External | → | SSE Social | −0.3633 | −0.1363 | 0.0550 | −2.4786 | 0.0148 | −0.2453 | −0.0273 |
LOC Chance | → | SSE Social | −0.0613 | −0.0247 | 0.0570 | −0.4325 | 0.6663 | −0.1377 | 0.0883 |
Selfier Type | → | SSE Social | 0.6141 | 0.3117 | 0.0945 | 3.2986 | 0.0013 | 0.1244 | 0.4989 |
Selfier Type | → | SSE Social’ | 0.1154 | 0.0586 | 0.1004 | 0.5833 | 0.5609 | −0.1405 | 0.2577 |
(c) | |||||||||
Selfier Type | → | LOC External | −0.9077 | −1.2285 | 0.2349 | −5.2287 | <0.001 | −1.6940 | −0.7629 |
LOC External | → | SSE Social | −0.4211 | −0.1575 | 0.0350 | −4.4974 | <0.001 | −0.2269 | −0.0881 |
Selfier Type | → | SSE Social | 0.5921 | 0.2997 | 0.0939 | 3.1928 | 0.0018 | 0.1137 | 0.4858 |
Selfier Type | → | SSE Social’ | 0.2100 | 0.1063 | 0.0968 | 1.0984 | 0.2744 | −0.0855 | 0.2980 |
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