Discovering Statistics Using SPSS
Discovering Statistics Using SPSS
Who blogs? Personality predictors of blogging
Computers in Human Behavior
Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
Who interacts on the Web?: The intersection of users' personality and social media use
Computers in Human Behavior
An investigation of Big Five and narrow personality traits in relation to Internet usage
Computers in Human Behavior
Social network activity and social well-being
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social network use and personality
Computers in Human Behavior
Make new friends or keep the old: Gender and personality differences in social networking use
Computers in Human Behavior
A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage
Computers in Human Behavior
The impact of engagement with social networking sites (SNSs) on cognitive skills
Computers in Human Behavior
The effect of social networking websites on positive self-views: An experimental investigation
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Students' self-presentation on Facebook: An examination of personality and self-construal factors
Computers in Human Behavior
Personality and patterns of Facebook usage
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference
Face-to-face or Facebook: Can social connectedness be derived online?
Computers in Human Behavior
Attachment style, social skills, and Facebook use amongst adults
Computers in Human Behavior
Limiting, leaving, and (re)lapsing: an exploration of facebook non-use practices and experiences
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Personality and social characteristics of Facebook non-users and frequent users
Computers in Human Behavior
Voices that cannot be heard: Can shyness explain how we communicate on Facebook versus face-to-face?
Computers in Human Behavior
FYI: communication style preferences underlie differences in location-sharing adoption and usage
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
How lonely people use and perceive Facebook
Computers in Human Behavior
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
Who are seeking friends? the portrait of stranger-seeker in social network sites
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
Capturing the mood: facebook and face-to-face encounters in the workplace
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Sentiment analysis on evolving social streams: how self-report imbalances can help
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Facebook self-disclosure: Examining the role of traits, social cohesion, and motives
Computers in Human Behavior
Social career management: Social media and employability skills gap
Computers in Human Behavior
Impact of different conceptualisations of system use on Facebook continuance
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Facebook: The enabler of online civic engagement for activists
Computers in Human Behavior
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The unprecedented popularity of the social networking site Facebook raises a number of important questions regarding the impact it has on sociality. However, as Facebook is a very recent social phenomenon, there is a distinct lack of psychological theory relating to its use. While research has begun to identify the types of people who use Facebook, this line of investigation has been limited to student populations. The current study aimed to investigate how personality influences usage or non-usage of Facebook. The sample consisted of 1324 self-selected Australian Internet users (1158 Facebook users and 166 Facebook nonusers), between the ages of 18 and 44. Participants were required to complete an online questionnaire package comprising the Big Five Inventory (BFI), the Narcissistic Personality Inventory - 29-item version (NPI-29), the Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale (RCBS), and the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults - Short version (SELSA-S). Facebook users also completed a Facebook usage questionnaire. The results showed that Facebook users tend to be more extraverted and narcissistic, but less conscientious and socially lonely, than nonusers. Furthermore, frequency of Facebook use and preferences for specific features were also shown to vary as a result of certain characteristics, such as neuroticism, loneliness, shyness and narcissism. It is hoped that research in this area continues, and leads to the development of theory regarding the implications and gratifications of Facebook use.