Social comparison orientation mediates the association between HEXACO and self-presentation

Demir S., ÖZKAN T., DEMİR B.

SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, cilt.63, sa.4, ss.405-414, 2022 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 63 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/sjop.12819
  • Dergi Adı: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, Educational research abstracts (ERA), EMBASE, MEDLINE, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo, Sociological abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.405-414
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Self-presentation, social comparison, HEXACO, personality, honesty-humility, mediation, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, GENDER-DIFFERENCES, MAJOR DIMENSIONS, PERSONALITY, CONSCIOUSNESS, COMPETENCE, MANAGEMENT, PROMOTION, DYNAMICS, FACEBOOK
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Various researchers have investigated the personality correlates of defensive and assertive self-presentation. Yet, only a few studies go beyond the direct relationships and examine the underlying mechanism. The current study examines whether the social comparison orientation (SCO) mediates the relationship between personality and self-presentation. We also tested whether our proposed model is invariant across genders. We collected data from 496 individuals using the HEXACO personality inventory, the self-presentation tactic scale, and Iowa-Netherlands SCO scale to test these hypotheses. The path analysis indicated that the partial mediation model provides the best fit to the data (root-mean-square error of approximation [RMSEA] = 0.08, comparative fit index [CFI] = 0.97, standardized root mean squared residual [SRMR] = 0.026). While honesty-humility (beta = -0.43) had the strongest total effect on assertive self-presentation, emotionality (beta = 0.34) had the strongest total effect on defensive self-presentation among other HEXACO dimensions. Additionally, we conducted a multigroup path analysis to test the structural invariance, and the findings indicate that the relationships are invariant across women and men (Delta chi(2)[14] = 11.83, p = 0.61). These findings suggest that the association between personality and self-presentation might not be straightforward. The findings are discussed in relation to facet and factor level associations among the variables, self-presentation strategies, and gender roles.