New study links social media addiction to narcissism

Washington D.C. – If you are a social media addict and are guilty of self-reporting, you might want to keep the obsession in check.

The researchers from Swansea University and the University of Milan studied the effects of social media on the use of social media. 18 to 34 over a four-month period. They also badessed the participants' use of social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, during that same period.

Narcissism is a characteristic feature that can involve grandiose exhibitionism, beliefs relating to entitlement, and exploiting others.

Those who used social media excessively, through visual postings, displayed an average 25% increase in such narcissistic traits over the oven months of the study. This review was originally written in French by the author and is not translated to English by Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

The study also found that the former social media for verbal postings, such as Twitter, did not show these effects. The study was published in the Open Psychology Journal

However, for this group of people, their initial levels of narcissism predicted a growth in this form of social media use over time. The more narcissistic they were, to begin with, the more verbal

All but one of the people in the study used social media, and their average use,

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"There have been suggestions of links between narcissism and the use of visual postings on social media, such as Facebook, but, until this study, it was not Known narcissists use this form of social media more, or if using these platforms is badociated with the subsequent growth in narcissism. The results of this study suggest that self-help can increase narcissism, "said Phil Reed, lead researcher of the study.

" Taking the sample of the population, which is no reason to doubt. This article is based on the findings of the European Commission on the Use of Social Media, "Reed added.

According to the researchers, predominant use of social media for participants was visual,

Roberto Truzoli, one of the leading researchers said, "The use of visual social media may emphasize the perception of narcissistic individuals that they are the main focus of attention. The lack of immediate 'direct' social censorship, may offer them the opportunity to inflict aspects of their narcissistic personality, present themselves in a grandiose manner, and realize fantasies of omnipotence. "

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