Relationship between Adolescent’s Self-Esteem and Narcissism and Their Facebook Use
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Facebook is the dominant social networking site across the globe. In Ethiopia, the number of adolescents, that use Facebook increase in a faster rate. Different personality characteristics are related with Facebook use including self-esteem and narcissism. The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between adolescent’s self-esteem and narcissism with their Facebook use. This study, under positivist approach, employed quantitative research methodology with a co-relational design and had both descriptive and explanatory goals. The study was carried out in three schools that are found in Arada sub-city, Addis Ababa. The total number of participants was 349. Three standardized tools were used to collect the data from the respondents. Data was collected, analyzed and interpreted from March to June 2016.
The results revealed participants of this research had normal range self-esteem, were not narcissists and had moderate Facebook intensity. The findings of the independent T-test revealed that there was statistically significant mean difference in Facebook intensity as a result of difference in respondents’ grade level. There was a statistically significant relationship between participants’ self-esteem and their grade level and no statistically significant mean difference in respondents’ narcissism as a result of difference in respondents’ grade level. Besides, the combined effect of the narcissism and self-esteem in predicting Facebook intensity was 0.8%.
Conclusion and recommendation: self-esteem had profound effect on the participants Facebook use. And, it was recommended that future researches would be very effective if the mediating effect of Facebook activity is included and large sample would be used
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Adolescent; Self-esteem; Narcissism; Facebook Intensity