@ARTICLE{Mosanya_Magdalena_Social,
 author={Mosanya, Magdalena and Uram, Patarycja and Kocur, Dagna},
 volume={vol. 55},
 journal={Polish Psychological Bulletin},
 pages={11-25},
 howpublished={online},
 publisher={Committee for Psychological Science PAS},
 abstract={Extensive social media usage causes psychological dependence and impacts people’s self-evaluations. It is vital to seek possible buffers to social media addiction’s detrimental effect on self-esteem and body image. Poland has one of the highest scores on problematic social media usage. Past studies pointed to narcissism and self-compassion as possible mediators of such effects. The present study aimed to explore Polish individuals’ (N=527) social media usage habits. We hypothesised gender differences and social media addiction predictive effect on self-evaluations (self- esteem, body image), with narcissism and self-compassion as mediators of such relationships. The results revealed that only visual media (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) had a negative effect on self-evaluations and that women reported more social media addiction and decreased self-esteem, self-compassion and body image. Social media addiction was negatively predicting body image for both genders and self-esteem for women but not for men, with self-compassion and narcissism mediating such relationships.},
 type={Article},
 title={Social media: Does it always hurt? Self-compassion and narcissism as mediators of social media’s predicting effect on self-esteem and body image and gender effect: A study on a Polish community sample},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/131659/PDF/2024-PPB-02.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/ppb.2024.150352},
 keywords={body image, gender, narcissism, self-compassion, self-esteem, social media},
}