Social network use and personality

Studies have shown a connection between the individual personality of the user and the way he or she behaves on line. Today many millions of people around the world are connected by being members of various Internet social networks. Ross et al. (2009) studied the connection between the personality o...

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Published in:Computers in human behavior Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 1289 - 1295
Main Authors: Amichai-Hamburger, Yair, Vinitzky, Gideon
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2010
Elsevier
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Criteria
Facebook
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human behavior
Internet
Internet and personality
Joints
Networks
On-line systems
Personality
Personality traits
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social network
Internet and personality
Social network
Facebook
Human
Personality
Internet
ISSN:0747-5632, 1873-7692
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Summary:Studies have shown a connection between the individual personality of the user and the way he or she behaves on line. Today many millions of people around the world are connected by being members of various Internet social networks. Ross et al. (2009) studied the connection between the personality of the individual users and their behavior on a social network. They based their study on the self-reports of users of Facebook, one of the most popular social networks, and measured five personality factors using the NEO-PI-R ( Costa & McCrae, 1992) questionnaire. They found that while there was a connection between the personalities of surfers and their behavior on Facebook, it was not strong. This study is based on that of Ross et al. (2009), but in our study the self-reports of subjects, were replaced by more objective criteria, measurements of the user-information upload on Facebook. A strong connection was found between personality and Facebook behavior. Implications of the results are discussed.
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ISSN:0747-5632
1873-7692
DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2010.03.018