It’s not you, it’s me: A thematic analysis of written causal attributions for favorable and unfavorable feedback on different types of Instagram image sharing

Malinda Desjarlais

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0346413

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It’s not you, it’s me: A thematic analysis of written causal attributions for favorable and unfavorable feedback on different types of Instagram image sharing

Malinda Desjarlais

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mddesjarlais@mtroyal.ca

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5698-9661

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It’s not you, it’s me: A thematic analysis of written causal attributions for favorable and unfavorable feedback on different types of Instagram image sharing

Malinda Desjarlais

Published: May 11, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346413

About the Authors

Malinda Desjarlais

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mddesjarlais@mtroyal.ca

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5698-9661

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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