Selfie
addicts may not make good partners
Good news for anyone who has ever twitched with
rage at the friend who constantly posts selfies of their apparently perfect
life online: the biggest offenders could be damaging their romantic
relationships. Researchers in the United States are working to understand how
selfies affect our self-perception, and the quality of our romantic
relationships. The team behind an initial study entitled “The online ideal
persona vs the jealousy effect“ found that the more selfies a couple take, the
more likely they will view their relationship as a “lower quality“. They pinned
this down to jealousy stemming from the comments about the pictures, as well as
the creation of an “online ideal persona“ that was different to real-life.
Other studies have also revealed how social media surveillance of a roman tic partner
is associated with greater jealousy , insecurity, and dissatisfaction in
relationships.
Their
findings follow a previous study by the same team at Boston University which
found that that those who were more narcissistic take more selfies, but that the
photos also boosted feelings of self-importance.
To make
those findings, the researchers at Boston University and the Pontifical
Catholic University of Chile surveyed 314 people aged between 18 to
65-years-old, and again a year later.The respondents were asked to rank on a
one-to-five scale questions including “I like to be the centre of attention,“
“I will never be satisfied until I get all that I deserve,“ and “I like to look
at myself in their mirror,“ according to Pacific Magazine. The researchers also
asked how frequently the participants took and shared photos of themselves on
social media.
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