An investigation of Big Five and narrow personality traits in relation to Internet usage

By Richard N. Landers, John W. Lounsbury. Computers in Human Behavior, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Personality and self reported mobile phone use (2008, methodology): “This may reflect differences in interpersonal skill, or less agreeable people may just have more time on their hands (Landers & Lounsbury, 2006; Scealy, Phillips, & Stevenson, 2002).”
Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use (2009, background): “This supposition is reinforced by Butt and Phillips (2008) who noted that those who were low in Agreeableness are the ones who were most likely to receive cellular phone calls in public places.”
Social networking addiction: an overview of preliminary findings (2014, result): “…with regards to lack of conscientiousness appear to be in line with previous research on the frequency of general Internet use in that people who score low on conscientiousness tend to use the Internet more frequently than those who score high on this personality trait (Landers & Lounsbury, 2004).”
Social capital on facebook: differentiating uses and users (2011, background): “More introverted, less agreeable, and less conscientious college students spend more time online than their extroverted peers [25], which may be explained by extroverts spending their discretionary time in face-to-face social interactions, or introverts having fewer social obligations, freeing up ad”
Who uses Facebook? An investigation into the relationship between the Big Five, shyness, narcissism, loneliness, and Facebook usage (2011, methodology): “The Five-Factor Model, otherwise known as the Big Five (Goldberg, 1990), is arguably the most commonly used model for this purpose (Ehrenberg, Juckes, White, & Walsh, 2008; Landers & Lounsbury, 2006; Swickert, Hittner, Harris, & Herring, 2002; Tuten & Bosnjak, 2001).”
The digital divide shifts to differences in usage (2014, unknown): “…use of online social, leisure and information services (Amichai-Hamburger and Ben-Artzi, 2000), between social, leisure and academic Internet use (Landers and Lounsbury, 2006), between technical, information exchange and leisure motives (Swickert et al., 2002) or between ritualized and…”
Current Perspectives on Personality and Internet Use (2010, background): “Landers and Lounsbury (2006) suggested that total Internet usage, in terms of time spent online, negatively correlated with both agreeableness and conscientiousness in their student sample. Furthermore, conscientiousness correlated negatively with time spent engaging in leisure activities, yet posit”
Dispositional Factors in Internet Use: Personality Versus Cognitive Style (2007, background): “, watching YouTube videos) and more time online engaged in academic pursuits (Landers and Lounsbury 2006).”
Impacts of Personality Traits on Consumer Innovation Success (2016, background): “Landers and Lounsbury (2006) found extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness to be negatively related to the total time an individual spends on the Internet.”
Cultural differences in social networking site use: A comparative study of China and the United States (2013, background): “…and conscientiousness have been negatively related to time online, especially time spent in leisure activities such as SNSs, although conscientiousness, but not agreeableness, has been positively related to time online for academic purposes (e.g., information seeking; Landers & Lounsbury, 2006).”
The Relationships among Attachment Style, Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competency, and Facebook Use (2012, background): “However, some authors have found the opposite trend, with introverted people using the internet more for social purposes (Amiel & Sargent, 2004; Landers & Lounsbury, 2006).”
The Roles of Personality Traits, AI Anxiety, and Demographic Factors in Attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence (2022, methodology): “…we were interested in pitting the broad big five personality traits against AI anxiety in their predictive power in the overall model, following theorizing regarding the breadth of constructs in per-sonality-related behavioral predictions (e.g., Landers & Lounsbury, 2006, who studied internet use).”
Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature (2011, result): “The findings with regards to lack of conscientiousness appear to be in line with previous research on the frequency of general Internet use in that people who score low on conscientiousness tend to use the Internet more frequently than those who score high on this personality trait [94].”