Mothers are heavily engaged in social media, and mommy influencers have become key sources of information and targets for social comparison. This study investigates the psychological mechanisms by which mothers’ parental stress is affected by social comparison with mommy influencers. An online survey was conducted among South Korean millennial mothers ( N = 237). The results revealed that mothers who frequently compare themselves to mommy influencers may experience both positive and negative effects depending on the envy type. While social comparison was positively associated with both benign and malicious envy, the relationships between these two forms of envy and parenting efficacy differed. Benign envy was positively and malicious envy was negatively associated with enhanced parenting efficacy, respectively. Both envy and parenting efficacy serially mediated the relationship between mothers’ social comparison experiences with mommy influencers and parental stress. The implications of these findings are discussed along with suggestions for future research.

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Instagram 上千禧一代母亲的社交比较：嫉妒与父母压力之间的关系

妈妈们大量参与社交媒体，妈妈影响者已成为重要的信息来源和社会​​比较的目标。本研究调查了母亲与影响妈妈的社会比较影响父母压力的心理机制。对韩国千禧一代母亲进行了一项在线调查（N = 237）。结果显示，经常将自己与影响妈妈的人进行比较的母亲可能会经历积极和消极的影响，具体取决于嫉妒类型。虽然社会比较与良性和恶意嫉妒呈正相关，但这两种形式的嫉妒与养育效能之间的关系有所不同。良性嫉妒和恶意嫉妒分别与养育效能的提高呈正相关和负相关。嫉妒和养育效能都连续调节了母亲与妈妈影响者的社会比较经历和父母压力之间的关系。讨论了这些发现的含义以及对未来研究的建议。