Impression Management in Social Networking Sites and Its Motivation

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10.2991/assehr.k.200428.037How to use a DOI?

Keywords

motivation for impression management, social network, self-expression, belonging, self-esteem

Abstract

Nowadays, social networking sites (SNS) have gradually become an important field for interpersonal interaction and communication. Due to the uniqueness of social networks, users’ online interaction and offline face-to-face communication in social networks are different, but there is a certain correlation between them. Through analyzing the research on impression management and social networks by scholars at home and abroad, it is found that the impression management behavior of users in social network platforms is produced by the combined action of internal self-esteem needs motivation and external network environment factors motivation, which is conducive to have a further research on psychological research of certain behaviors generated by users in social network services.

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© 2020, 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  - Xinyu Liang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/01
TI  - Impression Management in Social Networking Sites and Its Motivation
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 159
EP  - 163
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200428.037
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200428.037
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