The Relationship Between Social Comparison and Self-Esteem Among Late Adolescent Instagram Users

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10.2991/assehr.k.210805.083How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social comparison, self-esteem, Instagram, late adolescence

Abstract

Instagram is a social media that is popular among all age groups, but especially late teens. Social media allows each individual to explore, see, imitate, and even define a standard. When teenagers compare themselves to other people on Instagram, this certainly has an impact on their self-esteem. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between social comparison among late adolescents who use Instagram and their self-esteem. This research uses quantitative research method. The data used in this study is primary data collected from 198 respondents in West Jakarta with an age range of 18-22 years, who use Instagram for at least 3 hours. Participants in this study were selected by purposive sampling, and the data were processed using correlation testing. The result is r = -0.245, p> 0.01. Based on the results of the correlation test, it can be concluded that there is a correlation between social comparison and self-esteem.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alodia Alodia
AU  - Denrich Suryadi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - The Relationship Between Social Comparison and Self-Esteem Among Late Adolescent Instagram Users
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 527
EP  - 532
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.083
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.083
ID  - Alodia2021
ER  -