Self-presentation Research Articles

The presentation of self in everyday young lives with pain: a poetic meta-ethnography

ABSTRACT Background Access to pain relief is a fundamental human right, yet child and adolescent pain can remain unheard and untreated . We aimed to understand and testify to young people’s pain experiences. Methods This is the first systematic review of qualitative research to present findings as poetry. We followed stages of meta-ethnography, using verbatim poetry to express the findings. Results We included 189 studies incorporating 6072 young people with pain across a range of conditions and contexts. Our findings highlight the ambiguity of pain . This ambiguity is exacerbated by unpredictability, absence of diagnosis, and a tangle of bio-psycho-social factors. Conclusions Verbatim poetry can help us to imagine what it is like to live in someone else' shoes. Poetry can therefore contribute to compassionate and high-quality care. Future research might explore the role of poetry inmore inclusive research.

An exploration of the impression management and dialogical potential of arts organisations

An exploration of the impression management and dialogical potential of arts organisations

Corporate misconduct and corporate social responsibility: the roles of CEO incentives and institutional ownership

Purpose This study aims to examine why executives increase investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a strategic action to protect their firms’ reputation from the possibility of a contagion effect following CSR-related corporate misconduct in the industry by drawing on an impression management perspective. This study also examines internal and external governance mechanisms as boundary conditions. Design/methodology/approach The sample includes panel data of firms listed in the S&P 500 index from 2009 to 2013. The authors used firm fixed-effects models to test the hypotheses. Findings The results show that recent CSR-related corporate misconduct occurred in other firms, inducing executives to increase investments in CSR. Moreover, internal and external governance mechanisms, which are CEO incentives and institutional ownership, moderated the relationship. Originality/value This study contributes to prior literature on the factors influencing CSR at the multilevel of analysis by examining how recent CSR-related corporate misconduct in the industry interacts with corporate governance mechanisms as boundary conditions to influence firm commitment to CSR.

Business Groups after Incidents of Wrongdoing: Exploring the Effectiveness of Differentiated Versus Aligned Impression Management Tactics

AbstractWe use attribution theory to understand how people evaluate a company when another company in the same business network does something wrong. In studying business groups, we find that when one company affiliated with a group commits wrongdoing, the strategies used by other affiliated companies to manage how they are evaluated are only effective when they use tactics that differ from those used by the deviant firm. Specifically, results from three experimental studies suggest that affiliated firms should use differentiated technical and ceremonial impression management tactics to help evaluators distinguish between innocent and deviant companies. Our findings also reveal the conditions for such successful differentiation, demonstrating that it is particularly effective when companies have a history of wrongdoing but can backfire if external stakeholders become aware that these actions are intentionally coordinated. Our findings provide novel insights into the impression management literature by exploring the dynamic interplay between the impression management strategies of connected but noncompeting organizations. We also contribute to the business group literature by revealing the delicacy of coordinating affiliates.

Impression Management In Building Personal Branding Marco Randy

Public figures employ various strategies to elevate their popularity and cultivate a specific public image. A key tactic is effective impression management. Through strategic impression management, individuals can optimize the results of their personal branding endeavors. Marco Randy, a prominent figure in the entertainment industry as an influencer, host, and radio personality, exemplifies this concept. He has successfully crafted a distinctive personal brand that sets him apart from his peers.This qualitative study, grounded in theories of impression management and personal branding, is based on in-depth interviews and observations. The research findings reveal a dichotomy in Marco Randy's personality. While he presents a public persona that is engaging and extroverted, his private self often exhibits introverted tendencies. This duality becomes apparent when he interacts with large crowds, as he may experience energy depletion and seek solitude afterward. Despite this, he is widely perceived as a friendly and approachable public figure, though he is selective about his interactions with unfamiliar individuals.

Self-Promotion Practices and Context Collapse Management of Adult Content Creators on OnlyFans

Content creators' self-promotion strategies play a significant role in their usage of social media. While these self-promotion practices have been extensively researched, there is less known in regards to content creators who produce adult content. Our study focuses on OnlyFans, a digital patronage platform with a large user base of adult content creators. Despite its popularity, OnlyFans possesses key limitations that lead creators to other social media platforms for self-promotion and audience building. This study explores the self-promotion strategies and context collapse management among adult content creators on OnlyFans. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews with 15 OnlyFans creators, we investigated their approaches to self-promotion, audience growth, and boundary management among different social media platforms. OnlyFans creators face unique challenges compared to other creators due to the stigma associated with adult content and digital sex work. Our findings reveal the unique strategies they employ to navigate the constraints of their work in tandem with maintaining boundaries to avoid context collapse. This research contributes to a broader understanding of the nuances of impression management within under-researched, stigmatized online communities. We discuss how these motivations and strategies to build a sustainable online presence lie in tension with the risks associated with adult content creation.

Evaluating the Impact of Faking on the Criterion‐Related Validity of Personality Assessments

ABSTRACTPersonality assessments are commonly used in hiring, but concerns about faking have raised doubts about their effectiveness. Qualitative reviews show mixed and inconsistent impacts of faking on criterion‐related validity. To address this, a series of meta‐analyses were conducted using matched samples of honest and motivated respondents (i.e., instructed to fake, applicants). In 80 paired samples, the average difference in validity coefficients between honest and motivated samples across five‐factor model traits ranged from 0.05 to 0.08 (largest for conscientiousness and emotional stability), with the validity ratio ranging from 64% to 72%. Validity was attenuated when candidates faked regardless of sample type, trait relevance, or the importance of impression management, though variation existed across criterion types. Both real applicant samples (k = 25) and instructed response conditions (k = 55) showed a reduction in validity across honest and motivated conditions, including when managerial ratings of job performance were the criterion. Thus, faking impacted the validity in operational samples. This suggests that practitioners should be cautious relying upon concurrent validation evidence (for personality inventories) and expect attenuated validity in operational applicant settings, particularly for conscientiousness and emotional stability scales. That said, it is important to highlight that personality assessments generally maintained useful validity even under‐motivated conditions.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown: How celebrity CEOs affect corporate social responsibility-An empirical study of Chinese listed firms.

This study examines the influence of celebrity Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Chinese listed firms in the A-share market from 2009 to 2020. We employ a multi-theoretical approach, drawing on upper echelons, impression management, and identity theories to explore several aspects of this topic. We find that celebrity CEOs are associated with better CSR engagement, suggesting that celebrity CEOs are likely to utilize CSR to strategically manage their impressions. We then explore four boundary conditions in the relationship between celebrity CEOs and CSR, and how celebrity identity mechanisms moderate this relationship. We find that CEOs' age, gender, and degree of media attention can strengthen the celebrity CEOs-CSR relationship, explaining the boundary conditions influencing the level of celebrity CEOs' impression management motivation. Additionally, environmental dynamism does not influence the association between celebrity CEOs and CSR performance. Our study provides new insights into the understanding of CSR antecedents, particularly from the perspective of CEOs' psychological motivation, and contributes to formulating future CEO and CSR strategies.

The impact of innovative work behavior on information technology organizations’ performance appraisal: Mediating role of impression management strategies: Evidence from kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The impact of innovative work behavior on information technology organizations’ performance appraisal: Mediating role of impression management strategies: Evidence from kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Exploring the mechanisms of different social norms influencing green consumption attitude and behavior

PurposeGreen consumption is conducive to global sustainable development. This study aims to explore how social norms (i.e. descriptive norms and injunctive norms) impact green consumption attitude and behavior. It examines the mediating role of impression management and the moderating role of self-construal.Design/methodology/approachWe conduct two online experiments to collect data. A total of 1,070 Chinese consumers participate in Study 1. Study 2 involves 541 Chinese consumers.FindingsThe results show that descriptive norms and injunctive norms stimulate consumers’ impression management, which then promotes green consumption attitude and behavior. When an individual is more predisposed to interdependent self-construal, descriptive norms are more effective in activating impression management and then affecting green consumption attitude and behavior.Originality/valueSocial norms are an effective intervention measure for green consumption. Its influence process is complex. However, previous studies mainly identified the mediating role of personal norms. Other mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions are still unclear. This study identifies the mediating role of impression management and the moderating role of self-construal. It sheds new light on how social norms impact green consumption.

SOCIETY OF THE MASK. THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN HONNE AND TATEMAE IN JAPANESE CULTURE AND SOCIAL PHENOMENA

The present paper explores the correlation between the mask as a major theme in Japanese art throughout history and as an important social tool, especially when constructing social hierarchies. Expanding upon Erving Goffman’s theory of self-presentation, we focus on the dissociation between subjective intentions (honne) and the social mask/façade (tatemae) as one of the leading factors behind Japan’s post-war identity crisis, reflected in the autobiographical works of authors such as Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai. We also seek to analyze contemporary negative social phenomena such as hikikomori through the lens of this cultural conflict.

Crossing the timescape of the ‘Here and Now’ on Mount Athos

This article focuses on how the monks of Mount Athos embody its unique timescape in their presentation of the monastic self in everyday life, as it emerges out of the musicality of the Athonian landscape. The article unfolds the embodied dialectics in play between the experience of messianic time and its spiritual affordances against which one's bodily resilience is sociomaterially tested in and by the ‘Here and Now’, following the metronomic measuring of time and its historical affordances. By comparing two ways of measuring each ‘hour’, the article further investigates the use value given to one's personal time as an experiential means of teaching the ‘techne of time’ for cultivating a monastic ‘self’ within and against a ‘world’ out there. The article draws three overlapping nested temporal cycles in terms of per‐forming the ‘self’ within the organic community and the institution, through which one naturalizes, synchronizes, and interiorizes the horologion with the tempos of everyday life. Finally, it argues that the crossing from the secular to the monastic timescape disrupts the continuity of common life and its expectations, by opening a self‐revelatory time rupture revealing Eternity in every instance of one's paradoxical presence in the present moment in and out of time.

Dual Pathways Linking Trait Negative Affect to Employee Creativity

Previous studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding the impact of negative affectivity on employee creativity. To accurately capture the influence of negative affect in organizational environments, this research investigates the relationship between trait negative affectivity and employee creativity. This study also proposes a dual-pathway theoretical framework, encompassing both positive and negative paths of trait negative affect in an integrated model. Drawing on mood-as-input theory and conservation of resources theory, this study explores the mediating effects of (1) needs for problem reframing and (2) impression management motivation in linking the relationship between negative affect and employee creativity. A survey was conducted with 244 full-time employees working in various industries. As a result of structural equation modeling analyses, the dual pathways connecting negative affectivity to employee creativity were found to be empirically supported. According to the statistical results, negative affectivity exhibited a positive indirect effect on employee creativity via needs for problem reframing, while it had a negative indirect effect through impression management motivation. The implications and limitations of this study are discussed.

What We Know and Do Not Know About Camouflaging, Impression Management, and Mental Health and Wellbeing in Autistic People

ABSTRACTCamouflaging is an impression management strategy employed by some autistic people, widely seen as a response to the pervasive stigma surrounding autism in society. Autistic narratives and lived experiences consistently link camouflaging to anxiety, depression, suicide risks, and autistic burnout. Quantitative research is yet to determine the nature of these relationships, with a significant portion of recent studies providing inconsistent evidence. While camouflaging can be a compelled survival strategy in social environments, it might also contribute to positive outcomes such as securing employment and forming positive social relationships, implicating a complex interrelationship with mental health and wellbeing. We advocate for using a transactional impression management framework to understand camouflaging and wellbeing and address the inconsistencies in research. Through examining the transactions among a person's individual and cognitive characteristics, behavior modification strategies, and the particular social contexts they find themselves in, this framework guides new empirical research directions to delineate the relationships between camouflaging, impression management, mental health, and wellbeing. There is a need to develop multiple measures of camouflaging that delineate the motivations, ability, effortfulness, and perceived effectiveness of camouflaging and examine how a person's social behaviors are perceived in different social environments. Research should also focus on intersectionality, sociocultural influences, and diverse autistic voices to study context‐sensitive camouflaging experiences across the autistic population.

REINFORCING AGENCY FROM ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT: SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF DOJA CAT'S "ATTENTION" MUSIC VIDEO

Celebrities in the entertainment industry frequently engage in impression management, a practice driven by the commodification of their personas. This study explores Doja Cat’s music video Attention, examining how she balances impression management with expressions of personal agency as a celebrity. Employing Roland Barthes’ semiotic analysis and Erving Goffman’s impression management theory, the study analyzes the visual signs embedded in the music video. The findings reveal that Doja Cat strategically performs impression management to align with stakeholder expectations, ensuring her continued marketability and perceived value within the entertainment industry. However, she also challenges these expectations by introducing symbols of agency, asserting her individuality and creative autonomy. This dual approach reflects the complexities of navigating societal pressures and personal expression in celebrity culture. Future studies could extend this analysis by examining Attention through a gender studies lens, focusing on themes such as female objectification and exploitation within the broader context of celebrity culture and the entertainment industry.

Tell Me More! Examining the Benefits of Adding Structured Probing in Asynchronous Video Interviews

ABSTRACTThe personnel selection field has observed the rising use of asynchronous video interviews (AVI). The current study investigates whether follow‐up questions (probes) can optimize the applicant experience in AVIs. Across two experimental studies with participants recruited from Prolific, we investigated whether AVIs with probing promote applicant reactions (e.g., the opportunity to perform perceptions) toward the AVI and how probing influences interview behaviors, applicant perceptions, and interview performance ratings. In Study 1, 404 participants were randomly assigned to either an AVI with probing or an AVI without probing. Results indicated that probing directly improved the opportunity to perform perceptions and interview performance ratings. In addition, probing positively impacted honest impression management and motivation to perform indirectly through participants' perceived opportunity to perform. However, mediation analyses suggested that the effect of probing on interview performance ratings was driven by response length. In Study 2 (n = 271), we teased apart the effects of the inherently added response time that probing affords applicants with an additional condition that matched the response time of probes. Relative to Study 1, probing only slightly improved the opportunity to perform perceptions, but the effect of probing on the opportunity to perform perceptions was greater when compared to an AVI with an equivalent response time. In addition, probing positively impacted interview performance ratings, above and beyond their increased response time. Implications, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.

Digital mental health: locations and contexts in youths’ presentation of self in video consultations— a qualitative study

BackgroundThe long-established use of video consultation in mental health services has undergone significant historical development. This study reveals and discusses how video consultations influence youths’ presentation of self in video consultations and in different locations and contexts. This phenomenon will be examined in light of Goffman’s theory of frontstage and backstage in relation to the sense and impact of place, or placelessness, concidering mental health situations. The aim of this study was to explore whether and how therapy through a screen was experienced and to reveal challenges and opportunities that result from using digital tools to communicate in a therapeutic context. The study employed a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to gain an understanding of youths' life-world experiences with video consultations in therapy. 33 qualitative interviews were performed with youths in the age between 16–23 years. The recruitment was carried out between mid-august 2021 and end of march 2022. All had participated in VC sessions with their therapist during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis followed an abductive approach, where iterative cycles between the empirical data and theoretical framework helped uncover both unexpected and novel insights into the youths' experiences with VC.ResultsThe findings revealed two main themes to guide our investigation: 1) therapy through a screen versus F2F therapy and 2) different physical contexts for therapy through a screen. The findings show that youths’ experiences with the use of video consultations in therapy are diverse and heterogeneous.ConclusionsFace-to-face communication may reduce ambiguity and uncertainty through the use of body language and eye contact. Face-to-face communication requires less cognitive effort to process and involves greater psychological distance than digital communication. The advantages of using video consultations include avoiding school days, avoiding long travel distances, connecting faster when needed, and having shorter conversations to catch up on challenges in collaboration. The implications of location and context may also impact youths’ presentation of self.

Exploring corporate financial reporting theories: a systematic approach

Purpose The study aims to identify, summarize and synthesize the theories used in corporate financial reporting (CFR) and propose a conceptual framework based on those theories. Design/methodology/approach The study applied the systematic literature review approach to achieve the study objectives. So, the researchers systematically collected the relevant documents from the Scopus database with the help of an advanced search string containing keywords to the CFR theories. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses technique was used for the relevant document selection process. Finally, 67 documents were extracted and analyzed spanning from the year of 2017 to 2023. Findings The major findings of this study indicate a predominance of legitimacy, agency and stakeholder theories in CFR studies. Whereas, this study reveals that neo-institutional, signaling, resource dependency, political economics and impression management theories have been less focused on by scholars in the CFR studies. Those theories need to be reemphasized in this field in future research. Originality/value The study’s contributions are significant for academics, policymakers and different parties, as it enhance the understanding of CFR theoretical frameworks and suggest directions for future research to broaden the theoretical landscape. The study maps the motivations of applying a certain theory which will help the researchers to select a specific theory for the underlying context of CFR.

Mentoring Professional Identity Development through Media Assignments

Online portfolios are educational requirements used to encourage self-reflection and to assess competency in various disciplines. These ePortfolios focus on student selfpresentation without emphasizing the social construction of self and the opportunities that online spaces provide to enact an authentic professional public persona. Structured appropriately, online portfolios afford an opportunity for faculty to mentor students in effective impression management throughout their careers by strategically sharing high-quality multimedia texts that meet audience needs and expectations. Students need guidance in analyzing online environments and producing effective messages. This paper relates how the professional identity development potential of ePortfolios have been explored in three case studies: (1) a graduate digital analytics course, (2) an undergraduate public speaking course, and (3) an undergraduate travel course. Mentors and teachers are offered frameworks that encourage robust articulations of self and more advanced impression management skills in public online portfolios. These approaches can be employed across the curriculum in senior capstone courses or as ongoing projects that scaffold evolving student identities throughout their college development.

Humanized AI in hiring: an empirical study of a virtual AI job interviewer’s social skills on applicants’ reactions and experience

In this study, we investigate the effects of the use of advanced technologies based on AI in HRM, and particularly the use of virtual agent embedding anthropomorphic features in recruitment interview (hereafter referred to as AI job interviewer). We question the extent to which the AI job interviewer endowed with social skills affects the nature of the interaction, and specifically, applicants’ perceptions, experience and reactions during the interview. We focus on intimacy as a core social skill. Data were gathered from 94 applicants who completed an interview training session with an AI job interviewer that exhibited either multimodal expression of intimacy behaviors or no intimacy behaviors. Following the interaction, participants completed a questionnaire asking about their perceptions of intimacy, user experience, impression management and fairness. The findings demonstrate the reciprocity of intimacy behaviors and a positive user experience in the intimacy condition. By illustrating how AI job interviewers with social skills can affect the social relation established during a recruitment interview and provide satisfactory experiences, the present study offers promising avenues for improving the quality and effectiveness of human resource tools using AI devices, while also highlighting some managerial and ethical concerns.