Personality associations with Facebook use and tendencies towards Facebook Use Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The present study sought to address core issues in the association between personality and the putative disordered use of Facebook. First, to redress the issue of generalisation from samples solely recruited from Facebook, we sought to explore personality differences between users and non-users of Facebook. Second, we aimed to investigate associations between personality and Facebook Use Disorder. The present study contributes a novel perspective to extant research on this topic by moving beyond the broad Big Five of personality, to explore possible relationships between Facebook use and sub-facets of the Big Five; all analyses were additionally controlled for confounding effects of demographic variables.

Methods

3,835 (n = 2,366 males) participants compl

SUBMITTER: Sindermann C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7244926 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature