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The Relationship between Extraversion, Self-Esteem, Relationship Satisfaction, and Social Media Use

Brian Merski, Ellie Bryn, Chelsie Valencia,
Rachel Beatty, & Gretel Kreider

a Research Methods Project supervised by Dr. David Stahlman
(Fall 2020)

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check out their combined video summary
    Alex
    2 Dec 2020
    12:36pm

    Very interesting hypothesis thinking about the relationship as being U-shaped! I also really liked that while you could have recruited through social media, you found it to potentially offer too many confounding issues and so went with a smaller N size.

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    Hilary Stebbins
    3 Dec 2020
    1:11pm

    It’s too bad you had such a small sample size – it takes a large N to find people who fit into all of those categories! I’m impressed that you made a prediction about a curvilinear relationship. That’s ambitious for a methods project!

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    Dr. Kolar
    3 Dec 2020
    2:16pm

    Interesting prediction of a curvilinear relationship between your variables. That is difficult to show with a traditional regression and a smaller sample size. But interesting idea.

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    Miriam Liss
    4 Dec 2020
    2:04pm

    Really interesting topic and I think you are onto something. Some people use social media to enhance social connections while others use it to escape from reality. I agree that a curvilinear relationship is super ambitious for methods!

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    Abby
    7 Dec 2020
    11:36am

    People use social media in different ways. Some people use it as a platform and others use it as an escape from the real world. This would be a fun survey to do in person and with more participants.

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    Dr. Palmwood
    7 Dec 2020
    2:50pm

    This is such a creative way to try to combine all of those seemingly contradictory findings in the existing research on this topic!

    What do you think is going on with those people who score in the middle range on all of your variables of interest – people who have average relationship satisfaction, average self-esteem, and wouldn’t identify as introverted or extroverted? Were you hypothesizing that their social media use would be lower because there’s nothing in particular motivating them to use it more frequently?

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    LaNadia Loving
    9 Dec 2020
    8:40pm

    Great job! I enjoyed this presentation. I found it interesting how it was found that the combination of three predictive variables has no significant bearing or relationship to the criterion variable of social media use and how 2.8% of the variance in social media use could be attributed to the combined extraversion self-esteem and interpersonal satisfaction.

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