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Self-presentation and impression management involve behaviors intended to influence how others perceive us. People engage in self-presentation to facilitate social interaction, attain rewards, and construct identities. Common social media uses like social browsing, communication, and impression management allow people to selectively present themselves. Impression management strategies include self-promotion to demonstrate competence, ingratiation to win approval, exemplification through self-sacrifice, intimidation showing power, and supplication exploiting weaknesses to receive help.

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Selective Self UTS JEN REPORT

Self-presentation and impression management involve behaviors intended to influence how others perceive us. People engage in self-presentation to facilitate social interaction, attain rewards, and construct identities. Common social media uses like social browsing, communication, and impression management allow people to selectively present themselves. Impression management strategies include self-promotion to demonstrate competence, ingratiation to win approval, exemplification through self-sacrifice, intimidation showing power, and supplication exploiting weaknesses to receive help.

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Selective Self – Presentation and Impression Management

Self-presentation behavior intended to create, modify, or maintain an


impression of ourselves in the minds of others. Whenever we are attempting to lead
people to think of us in a particular way, we are engaging in self-presentation.

Why do people engage in self-presentation?


Self-presentation:

 Helps facilitate social interaction;


 Enables individuals to attain material and social rewards; and
 Helps people privately construct desired identities.

Generally, social media platforms are used for:

 Social browsing;
 Communication; and
 Impression management.

Impression management – is the attempt to control or influence any other


people’s perceptions. This could be their perception of a certain person (including
you), a material possession, or an event. There are two main motives of
attempting to manage the impression of others:

 Instrumental – This motive is to basically gain rewards and increase


one’s self-esteem.
 Expression – This motivation is about attempting to be in control of one’s
personal behavior and identity. It is a response to moral norms,
expectations, or restrictions, seeking to show others that he or she, as a
person, is different.
Impression-management Strategies

 Self-promotion
 Ingratiation
 Exemplification
 Intimidation
 Supplication

Self-promotion – is a proactive process in which a person actively says things or takes


action to show his or her competence to an audience.
Self-promotion often increases whenever there is an opportunity to openly impress
someone of higher status.

Ingratiation - is the process by which someone tries to win the approval or acceptance
of other.
For Example: If a woman wants to get her mother-in-law to like her, she may “kiss up” to
her by giving her compliments or gifts. She may also try to make herself appear more
similar to her mother-in-law in behavior and opinion, since people tend to like others
with similar values and interests.

Exemplification – involves a strategic self-sacrifice so that observers may organize the


dedication. An exemplification often wants other people to know how hard he/she has
been working because of the need to advertise his/her behaviour

Intimidation – is a strategy that involves showing off authority, power, or the potential
to punish in order to be seen by observers as someone who could be or is dangerous.
This is designed to increase the credibility of one’s threats and agreement.

Supplication – is an approach where the individual exploits his/her weaknesses or


shortcoming to receive help or benefits.

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