Study Reinecke & Trepte (2014): study DE 2010

Public

Social media users,, Germany, followed 6 months, 2010-2011

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 374

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Online authenticity

Our Classification

Operationalization

Participants were asked to think about their online profile and list 5 adjectives that "describe the person you represent in your online profile on . . . (name of network)". After participants had listed the 5 traits, they had to rate the extent to which each of the 5 adjectives described the person "you really are":
5 describes me very well
.
.
.
1 does not describe me at all

Ratings of all 5 attributes were summed and averaged to form a single indicator of authenticity.

Observed Relation with Happiness