Social Influence: Self-Presentation Flashcards
(14 cards)
GENERAL CONCEPTS
What is self-presentation?
*Refer to its 3 important functions
Self-presentation refers to how people attempt to present themselves to control or shape how others (audience) view them. It involves expressing oneself and behaving in ways that create a desired impression.
It serves 3 important functions:
1. helps facilitate social interaction
2. enables individuals to attain material and social rewards
3. helps people privately construct desired identities
VALIDATION
How is validation of self-concept achieved?
Validation of self-concept is achieved by users carefully crafting their online prescence by posting images that highlight the most enviable moments and picture-perfect photos that reflect the idealised concept of beauty and success.
VALIDATION
What is the effect on validaton via social media?
Social media can provide positive validation. A lack of responses (external validation) on a social media post may reinforce negative self-concept in their pursuit of approval.
SELF-CONCEPT
Define self-concept
Self-concept refers to our private sense of self, including who we are and what defines us.
SELF-CONCEPT
List the 3 components of self-concept
- Ideal self: person you want to be
- Self-image: how you see yourself
- Self-worth: how much you like yourself
SELF-CONCEPT
What are the two versions of self-concept?
**High-self monitors: **someone who is more likely to align their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours to that of their partners and tend to seek external validation via social media.
Low-self monitors: individuals are concerned for geniuneness and are often guided by their own true feelings. They value congruence between their underlying attitudes and public behaviour.
SELF-CONCEPT
Who will more easily conform; HSM or LSM?
High self-monitors are typically more likely to conform their behaviour to the demands of the situation, whereas low self-monitors tend to behave in accord with their internal feelings.
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
What are the factors that influence impression management?
Primacy Effect and Recency Effect
Verbal and Non-verbal
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
Types of verbal and non-verbal impressions
Verbal
Sematic verbal communication: content of what is said
Expressive verbal communication: how the content is said
Non-verbal
Distance
Eye-contact
Facial expression
Gestures
Posture
Physical apperance
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
Compare the Primacy to the Recency Effect.
The recency effect states that individuals best remember the last items on a list. Because the information is most recent and still held in someone’s short-term memory.
The primacy effect states that an individual will also likely remember the first item on that list. Because subsequent information is often interpreted in a way that reinforces the first impression.
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
What is a schema?
A schema refers to our internal template of our knowledge and expectations in any given situation, shaping our perceptions. Schemas help us quickly access relevant information, catergorise social interactions, and form consistent impressions.
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
How can schemas influence behaviour and attitude?
Schemas can also compromise our ability to change or adapt our existing perspective, thereby influencing our behaviour and attitudes based on flawed beliefs and expectations from once an impression.
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
What is the link between mental health and social media?
There is a correlation between social media and unhealthy peer comparison because young people are becoming obessed with how they look and present themselves on social media. This is fuelled by the presentation of unrealistic ideologies of beauty and success through media. Young people are vulnerable when it comes to curating the ‘perfect’ image leaving them suspectible to a range of mental health challenges.
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
Benefits of social media.
- Reduce social isolation
- Form of indirect education
- Develops pre-existing social skills
- Help people adapt to novel situations
- Exploring and experimenting individual identity
