Study Discovers That People Who Post Gym Selfie May Have Psychological Problems

I'm sure you have this friend who usually post gym photos and fills your newsfeed with those selfies and is making you really irritated. Well, it turns out that they might actually have a serious psychological problem causing them to be really selfie-mad.



A study at Brunel University has found out that a person who constantly brag about his/her fitness tend to have narcissism – a psychological problem where people gain pleasure from admiring themselves. Which then translates into annoying “sun’s out, guns out” kind of posts all over your facebook timeline, in a hope for comments and likes just to boost their ego.


Narcissists also wrote more updates on social media sites about their exercise routine and diet, suggesting that they only use Facebook just to broadcast their effort.

The survey measured personality traits such as neuroticism, extroversion ,openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. It also found that Facebook users who post a sh*t load of updates about their boyfriend or girlfriend have lower self-esteem and that those who are more conscientious tend to post more updates about their children.

Posted by WowViral on Thursday, July 9, 2015