The rise of metric-based digital status: an empirical investigation into the role of status perceptions in envy on social networking sites

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dc.contributor.authorMeythaler, Antonia
dc.contributor.authorKrause, Hannes-Vincent
dc.contributor.authorBaumann, Annika
dc.contributor.authorKrasnova, Hanna
dc.contributor.authorThatcher, Jason Bennett
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-02T15:03:16Z
dc.date.available2024-05-02T15:03:16Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractWidespread on social networking sites (SNSs), envy has been linked to an array of detrimental outcomes for users’ well-being. While envy has been considered a status-related emotion and is likely to be experienced in response to perceiving another’s higher status, there is a lack of research exploring how status perceptions influence the emergence of envy on SNSs. This is important because SNSs typically quantify social interactions and reach with metrics that indicate users’ relative rank and status in the network. To understand how status perceptions impact SNS users, we introduce a new form of metric-based digital status rooted in SNS metrics that are available and visible on a platform. Drawing on social comparison theory and status literature, we conducted an online experiment to investigate how different forms of status contribute to the proliferation of envy on SNSs. Our findings shed light on how metric-based digital status influences feelings of envy on SNSs. Specifically, we could show that metric-based digital status impacts envy through increasing perceptions of others’ socioeconomic and sociometric statuses. Our study contributes to the growing discourse on the negative out­ comes associated with SNS use and its consequences for users and society.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research by Antonia Meythaler, Hannes-Vincent Krause, Annika Baumann and Hanna Krasnova was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant no. 16DII127 and 16DII131.
dc.identifier.citationMeythaler, A., Krause, H.-V., Baumann, A., Krasnova, H., & Thatcher, J. B. (2023). The rise of metric-based digital status: An empirical investigation into the role of status perceptions in envy on social networking sites. European Journal of Information Systems, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2023.2290707
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/0960085x.2023.2290707
dc.identifier.issn0960-085X
dc.identifier.issn1476-9344
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/627
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSocial networking sites
dc.subjectmetric-based digital status
dc.subjectsocial comparisons
dc.subjectsocial status
dc.subjectenvy
dc.subjectexperiment
dc.titleThe rise of metric-based digital status: an empirical investigation into the role of status perceptions in envy on social networking sites
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0960085x.2023.2290707
local.researchgroupWohlbefinden in der digitalen Welt
local.researchtopicDigitale Technologien in der Gesellschaft
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