Personality associations with online vs. offline social capital and well-being variables.

ABSTRACT: Social capital is an important construct in diverse scientific disciplines for understanding health promotion, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In an increasingly digitalized world, social capital can be established and used in both online and offline contexts. Previous research suggests that personality might be relevant to an understanding of individual differences in social capital. For instance, the literature suggests that extraversion is associated with more social capital. Against this background, the present study aimed to revisit social capital research, but with a broader focus on studying all Big Five Personality traits (assessed with the BFI-45) and their association with bonding (similarity-based relationships), bridging (diversity-based relationships) social capital dim

SUBMITTER: Chao M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11657760 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature