Social comparison orientation mediates the association between HEXACO and self-presentation

2022-04-01
Demir, Sila
Özkan, Türker
DEMİR, BAŞAR
Various researchers have investigated the personality correlates of defensive and assertive self-presentation. Yet, only a few studies go beyond the direct relationships and examine the underlying mechanism. The current study examines whether the social comparison orientation (SCO) mediates the relationship between personality and self-presentation. We also tested whether our proposed model is invariant across genders. We collected data from 496 individuals using the HEXACO personality inventory, the self-presentation tactic scale, and Iowa-Netherlands SCO scale to test these hypotheses. The path analysis indicated that the partial mediation model provides the best fit to the data (root-mean-square error of approximation [RMSEA] = 0.08, comparative fit index [CFI] = 0.97, standardized root mean squared residual [SRMR] = 0.026). While honesty-humility (beta = -0.43) had the strongest total effect on assertive self-presentation, emotionality (beta = 0.34) had the strongest total effect on defensive self-presentation among other HEXACO dimensions. Additionally, we conducted a multigroup path analysis to test the structural invariance, and the findings indicate that the relationships are invariant across women and men (Delta chi(2)[14] = 11.83, p = 0.61). These findings suggest that the association between personality and self-presentation might not be straightforward. The findings are discussed in relation to facet and factor level associations among the variables, self-presentation strategies, and gender roles.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY

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Citation Formats
S. Demir, T. Özkan, and B. DEMİR, “Social comparison orientation mediates the association between HEXACO and self-presentation,” SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/97118.