What Is seen Is who you are

are cues in selfie pictures related to personality characteristics?

Bojan Musil (Author), Andrej Preglej (Author), Tadevž Ropert (Author), Lucia Klasinc (Author), Nenad Čuš Babič (Author)

Abstract

Developments and innovation in the areas of mobile information technology, digital media and social networks foster new reflections on computer-mediated communication research, especially in the field of self-presentation. In this context, the selfie as a self-portrait photo is interesting, because as a meaningful gesture, it actively and directly relates the content of the photo to the author of the picture. From the perspective of the selfie as an image and the impression it forms, in the first part of the research we explored the distinctive characteristics of selfie pictures; moreover, from the perspective of the potential reflection of a selfie image on the personality of its author, in the second part we related the characteristics of selfie pictures to various personality constructs (e.g., Big Five personality traits narcissism and femininity-masculinity). Important aspects of selfies especially in relation to gender include the tilt of the head, the side of the face exhibited, mood and head position, later related also to the context of the selfie picture. We found no significant relations between selfie cues and personality constructs. The face-ism index was related to entitlement, and selfie availability to neuroticism.

Keywords

psihologija;selfiji;samopredstavitve;ne zaključna dela;psychology;selfies;self-presentations;social media;selfie coding;personality assessment;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2017
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UM FF - Faculty of Arts
UDC:	159.9.072:316.6
COBISS:	22933256
ISSN:	1664-1078
Views:	1610
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Other data

Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	Psihologija;Avtoportreti (fotografija);Avtonomija (psihologija);
URN:	URN:SI:UM:
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	Str. 1-13
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ8
Issue:	ǂart. ǂ82
Chronology:	2017
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00082
ID:	10847404