Wang Wangshuai, Zhou Ke, Yu Zucheng, Li Jie
School of Management, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2020 May 8;13:407-417. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S238344. eCollection 2020.
Impression management, or self-presentation, prevails in our daily lives. However, whether it enhances or reduces individuals' well-being remains underexplored. To fill this gap, the research proposed and tested the following hypotheses. Impression management is negatively related to life satisfaction. Impression management is negatively related to sense of control. Impression management is positively related to loneliness. Sense of control and loneliness mediate the relationship between impression management and life satisfaction.
Data were collected from an online survey of 243 Chinese adults drawn from a national sampling frame. We used LISREL8.8 to perform a series of CFAs to verify the distinctiveness of variables and conducted SEM modeling to test hypotheses. To further test the mediation hypotheses, we used bootstrapping procedures that generated a sample size of 5000.
We found a negative association between impression management and life satisfaction. In addition, the association was fully mediated by sense of control and loneliness.
These results reveal that impression management is a negative indicator of life satisfaction because impression management impedes personal sense of control and elevates loneliness.
印象管理，即自我展示，在我们的日常生活中普遍存在。然而，它是增强还是降低个体的幸福感仍未得到充分研究。为了填补这一空白，本研究提出并检验了以下假设。印象管理与生活满意度呈负相关。印象管理与控制感呈负相关。印象管理与孤独感呈正相关。控制感和孤独感在印象管理与生活满意度之间起中介作用。
数据来自对243名中国成年人的在线调查，这些成年人是从全国抽样框架中抽取的。我们使用LISREL8.8进行了一系列验证性因素分析（CFA）以验证变量的独特性，并进行了结构方程模型（SEM）建模以检验假设。为了进一步检验中介假设，我们使用了抽样5000的自抽样程序。
我们发现印象管理与生活满意度之间存在负相关。此外，这种关联完全由控制感和孤独感介导。
这些结果表明，印象管理是生活满意度的一个负面指标，因为印象管理会阻碍个人的控制感并增加孤独感。
