The Impact of Social Norms on Adolescents' Self-Presentation Practices on Social Media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2414858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arne Freya Zillich (0000-0002-2226-7190, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, corresponding author), Annika Wunderlich (0009-0001-0607-9747, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Media + Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-3051 • E-ISSN: 2056-3051 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20563051241299829 |
| OpenAlex | W4404882674 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
Social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat offer adolescents many opportunities to control how other users see and perceive them. By observing their peers' self-presentations and receiving feedback on their own self-presentations from them, adolescents learn what is typical (descriptive norms) and appropriate (injunctive norms) on different social media platforms. Based on computer-assisted face-to-face surveys with German Instagram and/or Snapchat users aged between 14 and 16 years ( N = 1,002), we examined the impact of descriptive and injunctive norms on adolescents' self-presentation practices on social media. Drawing on the theory of normative social behavior and the affordances approach, we also considered the norm-moderating factors of outcome expectations, group identity, platform differences, and perceived content persistence. We provide evidence that both descriptive and injunctive peer norms influence adolescents' staged self-presentations, authentic self-presentations, and presentations of everyday life, although none of the moderating factors reached practical significance
Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Child Development and Digital Technology · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Medicine · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |