Personality and Self-Esteem as Predictors of Young People's Technology Use

By A. S. C. Ehrenberg, Suzanna Juckes, Katherine M. White, Shari P. Walsh. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2008

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Addiction to mobile text messaging applications is nothing to “lol” about (2014, unknown): “Ehrenberg et al. (2008) and Hong et al. (2012) also provide empirical support to show that extraverted people spend more time text messaging, and they also show that personality traits associated with antisocial behavior may cause people to develop text message preferences.”
Psychological Predictors of Young Adults' Use of Social Networking Sites (2009, unknown): “7 These ﬁndings indicate that the Internet has the potential to relieve some of the social anxiety that people with low self-esteem often experience in more traditional interpersonal situations.”
Social Media, Texting, and Personality: A Test of the Shallowing Hypothesis (2017, result): “Finally, the present study revealed a positive relationship between extraversion and texting frequency that is consistent with previous studies (Ehrenberg et al., 2008; Trapnell & Sinclair, 2013), as well as a positive relationship between extraversion and social media usage that has also been…”
The Rise of Consumer Health Wearables: Promises and Barriers (2016, background): “For example, an individual’s personality is likely to play a key role in determining the perceived usefulness of a given device [40].”
Who interacts on the Web?: The intersection of users' personality and social media use (2010, methodology): “This finding supports previous studies that have found higher levels of neuroticism were related to the usage of Web social services such as chat rooms (Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2000) and instant messaging (Ehrenberg et al., 2008).”
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”
The dark side of smartphone usage: Psychological traits, compulsive behavior and technostress (2014, background): “Compulsive usage of mobile phones Ehrenberg et al. (2008), Jenaro et al. (2007), Koo (2009), Meerkerk et al. (2009) 1.”