My collaborators and I have completed a new manuscript that is close to in-press for the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. It is a meta-analysis of several replication attempts of a highly-cited study about how self-esteem is related to Facebook usage motivations and perceptions. We found that the replications clearly replicated two of the four findings of the original article, failed to replicate one of them, and there was mixed evidence for the other finding. This tells us a bit more about how robust the original study’s findings were, and helps people who are interested to begin looking for moderators that we did not study.
The process was great because I had four great co-authors and we all worked together to get it done and out the door. I learned how to do meta-analysis in the process! We earned journal badges for Open Data, Open Materials, Preregistration, and Replication.
The prepress manuscript is on PsyArXiv at https://psyarxiv.com/sx742/
Leighton, D. C., Legate, N., LePine, S., Anderson, S. F., & Grahe, J. E. (2019, January 1). Self-Esteem, Self-Disclosure, Self-Expression, and Connection on Facebook: A Collaborative Replication Meta-Analysis. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/sx742
The original article by Forest & Wood (2012) is at Psychological Science: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611429709
