Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use

By Craig Ross, Emily S. Orr, M. Sisic, J. M. Arseneault, Mary G. Simmering, R. Orr. Computers in Human Behavior, 2009

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Facebook is quickly becoming one of the most popular tools for social communication. However, Facebook is somewhat different from other Social Networking Sites as it demonstrates an offline-to-online trend; that is, the majority of Facebook Friends are met offline and then added later. The present research investigated how the Five-Factor Model of personality relates to Facebook use. Despite some expected trends regarding Extraversion and Openness to Experience, results indicated that personality factors were not as influential as previous literature would suggest. The results also indicated that a motivation to communicate was influential in terms of Facebook use. It is suggested that different motivations may be influential in the decision to use tools such as Facebook, especially when individual functions of Facebook are being considered.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Who does what on Facebook? Age, sex, and relationship status as predictors of Facebook use (2012, background): “…measure of social integration among college students (Kalpidou, Costin, & Morris, 2011; Morris, Reese, Beck, & Mattis, 2009), and belonging to online friendship networks can be associated with higher life satisfaction and positive feelings under the right circumstances (Seder & Oishi, 2009).”
The Relationships among Attachment Style, Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competency, and Facebook Use (2012, methodology): “As friendships are often the most important relationships for 58 this population (Welch & Houser, 2010), researchers have begun to investigate the role of personality variables such as attachment (Buote et al., 2009) and FFM traits (Ross et al., 2009) in online social behavior.”
Who's Posting Facebook Faux Pas? A Cross-Cultural Examination of Personality Differences (2010, positive): “In terms of social networking, higher levels of ‘openness to experience’ has been associated with greater online socialibility in terms of frequency of checking and posting information on both one’s own and others’ profile (Ross et al., 2009).”
Students' perceptions of Facebook for academic purposes (2014, background): “This increase in communication may have a positive impact on class discussions, and students’ engagement and integration with their peers (Christofides, Muise, & Desmarais, 2009; Ross et al., 2009).”
Facebook use, envy, and depression among college students: Is facebooking depressing? (2015, background): “…(Hargittai, 2007; McAndrew & Jeong, 2012); younger people are heavier users than older generations (McAndrew & Jeong, 2012; Quan-Haase & Young, 2010); and that extroverted individuals are more likely to create Facebook accounts than introverts (Glynn, Huge, & Hoffman, 2012; Ross et al., 2009).”
Why Students Share Misinformation on Social Media: Motivation, Gender, and Study-level Differences (2015, background): “For example, a study about Facebook use found that an individual's motivation is significantly related to the amount of time spent on Facebook, while personality is not shown to have as strong an impact (Ross et al., 2009).”
Does personal social media usage affect efficiency and well-being? (2015, background): “From a psychological aspect, previous research has established three personality traits that are central to social media use: extraversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience (Ross et al., 2009; Zywica & Danowski, 2008).”
How do people compare themselves with others on social network sites?: The case of Facebook (2014, methodology): “…a person’s personality, measured by the Five Factor Model,1 and the person’s Facebook use (e.g., Amichai-Hamburger & Vinitzky, 2010; Bachrach, Kosinski, Graepel, Kohli, & Stillwell, 2012; Ross et al., 2009), but they did not consider other psychological traits such as self-esteem and depression.”
Sensitive Self-disclosures, Responses, and Social Support on Instagram: The Case of #Depression (2017, background): “In the context of SNSs, social support can be a motivator for use [43,67] as well as an outcome [33].”
Passive and Active Facebook Use Measure (PAUM): Validation and relationship to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (2017, neutral): “Studies on Facebook use and the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality have found that individual differences influenced whether users favored certain features, such as uploading photos, posting personal information, or joining groups (Amichai-Hamburger & Vinitzky, 2010; Ross et al., 2009).”
Participant recruitment and data collection through Facebook: the role of personality factors1 (2016, background): “…that personality factors affect the amount of time people spend using Facebook and how the site is used, but results are mixed: for example, Ross et al. (2009) found a limited relationship between personality factors and various indicators of Facebook use (e.g. use of specific Facebook…”