Facebook addiction and personality

This study explored the associations between Facebook addiction and personality factors. A total of 114 participants (age range of participants is 18–30 and males were 68.4% and females were 31.6 %) have participated through an online survey. The results showed that 14.91 % of the participants had r...

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Main Authors:	Thipparapu Rajesh, Dr B. Rangaiah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:	Heliyon
Subjects:	Psychology Loneliness Narcissism Facebook intensity Big five personality traits Facebook addiction
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020300293

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spelling	doaj-d06e83a934b14f5a8060332dd530bab62020-11-25T03:01:15ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402020-01-0161e03184Facebook addiction and personalityThipparapu Rajesh0Dr B. Rangaiah1Corresponding author.; Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, 605014, IndiaDepartment of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, 605014, IndiaThis study explored the associations between Facebook addiction and personality factors. A total of 114 participants (age range of participants is 18–30 and males were 68.4% and females were 31.6 %) have participated through an online survey. The results showed that 14.91 % of the participants had reached the critical polythetic cutoff score, and 1.75 % has reached the monothetic cutoff score. The personality traits, such as extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and narcissism, are not related to Facebook addiction and Facebook intensity. Loneliness was positively related to Facebook addiction, and it significantly predicted Facebook addiction by accounting to 14% of the variation in Facebook addiction. The limitations and suggestions for further research have been discussed.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020300293PsychologyLonelinessNarcissismFacebook intensityBig five personality traitsFacebook addiction
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description	This study explored the associations between Facebook addiction and personality factors. A total of 114 participants (age range of participants is 18–30 and males were 68.4% and females were 31.6 %) have participated through an online survey. The results showed that 14.91 % of the participants had reached the critical polythetic cutoff score, and 1.75 % has reached the monothetic cutoff score. The personality traits, such as extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and narcissism, are not related to Facebook addiction and Facebook intensity. Loneliness was positively related to Facebook addiction, and it significantly predicted Facebook addiction by accounting to 14% of the variation in Facebook addiction. The limitations and suggestions for further research have been discussed.
topic	Psychology Loneliness Narcissism Facebook intensity Big five personality traits Facebook addiction
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Facebook addiction and personality

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