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People can differently act online than in real-life. Their virtual identities may allow them to express themselves more freely. In this perspective, there is a self-discrepancy between virtual- and real-life. Due to the anonymity, people can feel free to express who actually they are online without considering social pressure. Especially, for those people who live in a repressed society, virtual-selves can play a significant role to achieve their well-being. For this reason, a self-discrepancy between actual- and virtual-self related to well-being was studied. With 183 survey responses, political freedom, extraversion and neuroticism are identified as significant influencers of subjective well-being (SWB). In addition, an increase in self-discrepancy between virtual- and real-life for ‘unhappy’ people leads to an increased online well-being, which is contradictory to Higgins’ self-discrepancy theory.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Theoretical Development
  2.1 Subjective Well-being and Self-discrepancy
  2.2 Self-discrepancy and ‘Online’ Well-being
  2.3 Freedom
  2.4 Equality
  2.5 Indulgence-Restraint
  2.6 Extraversion and Neuroticism
  2.7 Subjective Well-being
  2.8 Self-discrepancy
 3. Methods
 4. Results
  4.1 Supported Hypotheses
  4.2 Unsupported Hypotheses
 5. Discussion
  5.1 Social Factors and Subjective Well-being
  5.2 Subjective Well-being and Self-discrepancy
  5.3 Self-discrepancy and ‘Online’ Well-being
  5.4 Implications for theory
  5.5 Implications for Practice
  5.6 Limitations and Implications for Further Research
 References

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저자

• DongBack Seo [ Dept. of Management Information Systems, Chungbuk National University ]
• Andre Sijtsema [ School of Economics and Business, University of Groningen ]

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• 간행물명

  JITAM [Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management]

• 간기

  격월간

• pISSN

  1598-6284

• eISSN

  2508-1209

• 수록기간

  1999~2026

• 십진분류

  KDC 005 DDC 005