Narcissism Self-Esteem and Impact of Selfie Posting on Social Networking Sites among Adolescents and Adults

This study is conducted to know about the selfie impact on people self-esteem and how selfies posting increasing narcissistic traits among people who share their selfies on social networking sites. With the increase rise of social networking sites such as facebook and instagram the trend of posting selfies is very common now. For this reason two hundred (N=200) participants were selected from Peshawar which include one hundred (n=100) adults and one hundred (n=100) adolescents. Responses from participants were measured on two questionnaires, Narcissistic Personality Inventory (1976) and The Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (1965). The result of the study revealed a correlation between posting selfies on social networking sites and high level of narcissism. Result showed that adults with high self-esteem and narcissistic traits post more selfies when compared with adolescents. It is revealed that sharing more selfies on facebook and instagram increase narcissistic traits and increase self-esteem.