This study’s (study) aims were to investigate whether there 's a relationship (between the use of) Facebook use and self-esteem of individuals, across measures of gender and age. That is, to know whether self-esteem could be downgraded or upgraded by presenting oneself to the world through Facebook interaction, and if this differs across age and gender.
The first objective of this research was to find out whether activities on Facebook have a positive or negative relationship to a person’s self-esteem, to establish this Spearman correlation was used and the findings show that there is a weak negative correlation between Facebook scores and self-esteem, meaning that the more a person engages in activities on Facebook the lower their self-esteem …show more content…
This may be matched also with the findings of Duthler (2009), that women have a tendency to place very revealing and sexy photos of their self-appearance on Facebook profiles while men use the About Me sections more frequently as a form of self-promotion, suggesting that both men and women may most likely be equal when it comes to using Facebook as a means of self-promotion, and that self-esteem across gender is related to self-promotion and self-presentation (Walther; 2007). Conversely Denti et all (2011), has confirmed that women who use Facebook more have lower well-being in addition found no relationship for men. Additionally females use Facebook mostly to share personal information about their lives because females are said to be more vocal, expressive and willing to share in contrast to males who use Facebook gather information they need to build influence. Also helps males perform research, gather relevant contacts and ultimately increase their status. Thus, this may explain the reason why there is a disparity between females and male use of Facebook. Moreover, the relationship between Facebook use and self-esteem is almost the same, this may be attributed to the dual due to the fact that the two genders use Facebook for different reasons.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
In the quest to finding a relationship between Facebook use and self-esteem?
Research findings from the Spearman correction shows that; -.295 (rs -.295) and it’s statistically significant (p= .008 or <.05). The spearman’s rank order correlation was run to determine the relationship between Facebook activities and self-esteem. Thus there is a weak negative correlation between Facebook activities and self-esteem among
The first objective of this research was to find out whether activities on Facebook have a positive or negative relationship to a person’s self-esteem, to establish this Spearman correlation was used and the findings show that there is a weak negative correlation between Facebook scores and self-esteem, meaning that the more a person engages in activities on Facebook the lower their self-esteem …show more content…
This may be matched also with the findings of Duthler (2009), that women have a tendency to place very revealing and sexy photos of their self-appearance on Facebook profiles while men use the About Me sections more frequently as a form of self-promotion, suggesting that both men and women may most likely be equal when it comes to using Facebook as a means of self-promotion, and that self-esteem across gender is related to self-promotion and self-presentation (Walther; 2007). Conversely Denti et all (2011), has confirmed that women who use Facebook more have lower well-being in addition found no relationship for men. Additionally females use Facebook mostly to share personal information about their lives because females are said to be more vocal, expressive and willing to share in contrast to males who use Facebook gather information they need to build influence. Also helps males perform research, gather relevant contacts and ultimately increase their status. Thus, this may explain the reason why there is a disparity between females and male use of Facebook. Moreover, the relationship between Facebook use and self-esteem is almost the same, this may be attributed to the dual due to the fact that the two genders use Facebook for different reasons.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
In the quest to finding a relationship between Facebook use and self-esteem?
Research findings from the Spearman correction shows that; -.295 (rs -.295) and it’s statistically significant (p= .008 or <.05). The spearman’s rank order correlation was run to determine the relationship between Facebook activities and self-esteem. Thus there is a weak negative correlation between Facebook activities and self-esteem among