Psychological Predictors of Young Adults' Use of Social Networking Sites

By Kathryn Wilson, Stephanie Fornasier, Katherine M. White. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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The Relationships among Attachment Style, Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competency, and Facebook Use (2012, methodology): “…specific research on personality traits and SNS use are published in the journals Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and often suffer from similar methodological weaknesses (e.g. Wilson et al., 2010) according to established guidelines.”
The relationship between addictive use of social media, narcissism, and self-esteem: Findings from a large national survey. (2017, background): “…regard social media as a safer place to express themselves than people with high self-esteem (Forest &Wood, 2012), and a negative relationship between self-esteem and addictive use of social media has been reported (Hong et al., 2014; Malik & Khan, 2015; Wang et al., 2012; Wilson et al., 2010).”
Who are you and what do you value? Investigating the role of personality traits and customer-perceived value in online customer engagement (2016, positive): “This argument is in line with past studies that found a negative correlation between conscientiousness and the amount of time spent on Facebook (Amichai-Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2000; Ryan & Xenos, 2011; Wilson, Fornasier, & White, 2010).”
The relationships among the Big Five Personality factors, self-esteem, narcissism, and sensation-seeking to Chinese University students' uses of social networking sites (SNSs) (2012, background): “…previous studies reported a positive relationship between agreeableness and time spent on communication types of SNS use (Ryan & Xenos, 2011; Wilson et al., 2010), there is no previous research indicating explicitly that there is a positive relationship between agreeableness and number of…”
Self-presentation and belonging on Facebook: How personality influences social media use and motivations (2013, background): “However, conscientiousness is negatively associated with SNS use (Ryan & Xenos, 2011; Wilson et al., 2010), implying that conscientious individuals are cautious online and may choose to meet belonging needs offline.”
Facebook Psychology: Popular Questions Answered by Research (2012, background): “In that same study, Wilson et al. (2010) found no correlation between openness to experience or agreeableness and SNS use, suggesting that such media are no longer seen as a novelty; instead, they may be deemed as “functional” in nature (p. 175), that is, used for work purposes, rather than as a…”
Analyzing the Links Between Problematic Social Media Use, Dark Triad Traits, and Self-esteem (2018, background): “There are few studies that have explained the relationships between narcissism (Andreassen et al. 2017), other personality characteristics, and PSMU (Wilson et al. 2010), and the vast majority of these studies have focused on uses and gratifications of social media use.”
Technological addictions and social connectedness: predictor effect of internet addiction, social media addiction, digital game addiction and smartphone addiction on social connectedness (2017, background): “Research have shown that internet addiction, social media addiction, smartphone addiction and digital game addiction are associated with “depression” (24-27), “impulsivity” (7,28-30), “loneliness” (31-34), “sleep quality” (25,27,35,36), “well-being” (25,37-39), “self-esteem” (33,34,40,41) and “acade”
Why Do People Use Facebook? (2011, background): “A study by Wilson, Fornasier, and White (2010) asked participants to report on their addictive use of FB and also to complete the NEO-PI-R as well as the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith, 1981).”