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: web
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Online authenticity
- Our Classification
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- 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
Positive affect: r= +.19(01)
Negative affect: r= -.18(01)
Positive affect: r= +.19(01)
Negative affect: r= -.20(01
Positive affect: r= +.19(01)
Negative affect: r= -.18(01
Positive affect: beta= +.10(05)
Negative affect: beta= -.10(05)
Beta controlled for:
- authenticity at T1 (to indicate CHANGE)
beta
Positive affect +.10(05)
Negative affect -.10(05)
Beta controlled for:
- T1 happiness (to indicate CHANGE)