Psychological Well-Being and Self-Esteem of Updaters: Understanding People Who ‘Post’ Themselves On Social Media

Abstract

Aim: The primary aim of this investigation was to compare the psychological well-being and self-esteem of individuals who frequently update their personal information on social media with the individuals who either do not post or post little of their personal information on social media. The former set of people has been mentioned as ‘updaters’ and later as ‘nonupdaters’ in this study.

Materials and methods: 416 students from five universities of Punjab, were administered relevant questionnaires (viz. Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Scale and Rosenberg selfesteem questionnaire). The Mann Whitney U test was applied to the data with the help of SPSS statistics to test any significant differences. 

Results: The findings of the study suggested both psychological well-being and self-esteem to be significantly higher in non-updaters than updaters. The reasons have been discussed in the light of previous research in this investigation. 

Conclusion: Frequent posting on social media might not necessarily mean a healthy psychological well-being and self-esteem of updaters, which often is contrary to the information