Sarah Devos, Kathrin Karsay, S. Eggermont, Laura Vandenbosch
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ABSTRACT The current 14-day diary study among 186 adolescents (56.1% boys; M age = 15.62 years) examined how daily exposure to positive social media content (i.e., portrayals of individuals’ best possible selves) relates to their daily well-being. The results suggest that exposure to uncommon positive content (i.e., vacations and relationships) positively relates to adolescents’ beliefs about their potential to have a similar, successful lifestyle (i.e., “can self”). Such beliefs seem to turn into pressure to improve on days when adolescents feel that they are not as successful as they believe they should be (i.e., feelings of discrepancy). In conclusion, confident adolescents remain positive when they perceive such content as within reach, yet experience pressure when they perceive themselves as falling behind.
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Communication Monographs, published in March, June, September & December, reports original, theoretically grounded research dealing with human symbolic exchange across the broad spectrum of interpersonal, group, organizational, cultural and mediated contexts in which such activities occur. The scholarship reflects diverse modes of inquiry and methodologies that bear on the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction. The journal endeavours to publish the highest quality communication social science manuscripts that are grounded theoretically. The manuscripts aim to expand, qualify or integrate existing theory or additionally advance new theory. The journal is not restricted to particular theoretical or methodological perspectives.
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