Understanding differences in web usage: The role of need for cognition and the five factor model of personality.

By Tracy L. Tuten, Michael Bosnjak. 2001

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In relation to the Five-Factor Model of Personality and need for cognition, the authors investigated the relationship between personality and Internet usage. Of the five factors, openness to experience and neuroticism showed the greatest association to Internet usage. Openness to experience was positively related to using the Internet for entertainment and product information, while neuroticism was negatively related to Internet usage. Need for cognition was significantly and positively correlated with all Internet activities involving cognitive thought.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f6c6c59ea28215bc8d7d723b7b27e00f6ddfb0fc

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Clinical Psychology

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Influence of personality on travel-related consumer-generated media creation (2011, background): “A study by Tuten and Bosnjak (2001) investigated the influence of personality on web usage and found that openness is positively related to using the Internet for entertainment and product information search, while neuroticism is negatively related to Web usage.”
The Influence of Personality on Social Participation in Learning Environments (2006, unknown): “…context that reported on correlations between personality traits and Internet usage, mixed results were obtained (Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2000; Hills & Argyle, 2003; Scealy, Phillips, & Stevenson, 2002; Swickert, Hittner, Harris, & Herring, 2002; Tuten & Bosnjak, 2001; Wolfradt & Doll, 2001).”
WHEN AND HOW DIVERSITY BENEFITS TEAMS: THE IMPORTANCE OF TEAM MEMBERS' NEED FOR COGNITION (2009, background): “Although the correlation between need for cognition and the broad construct “openness to experience” (Costa & McCrae, 1992), as measured by Homan et al. (2008), typically ranges between .37 and .50 (e.g., Tuten & Bosnjak, 2001),1 the two variables have important conceptual differences.”
Panel Attrition (2014, unknown): “High levels of ‘‘need for cognition’’ (Tuten and Bosnjak 2001), and ‘‘need to evaluate’’ (Bizer et al. 2004), should also lead to commitment to the panel survey, and prolonged survey participation.”
Why Do People Watch News They Do Not Trust? The Need for Cognition as a Moderator in the Association Between News Media Skepticism and Exposure (2005, background): “Tuten and Bosnjak (2001) found that NFC “was significantly and positively correlated with all Web activities involving cognitive thought” (p. 391).”
To Trust or to Think (2021, background): “The impact of NFC on cognitive engagement with information has been studied in fields such as advertising and purchasing behavior [27, 43, 45], skill acquisition [13], web usage [56, 58], team function [37], health communication [61, 65], and AI-assisted decision-making [24].”
Dispositional Factors in Internet Use: Personality Versus Cognitive Style (2007, background): “Finally, some research shows that open people are attracted to online activity to sate their curiosity and seek out new forms of adventure (Tuten and Bosnjak 2001).”
Watch, Share or Create: The Influence of Personality Traits and User Motivation on TikTok Mobile Video Usage (2020, unknown): “: [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]), and motivations (e.”
Current Perspectives on Personality and Internet Use (2010, background): “Tuten and Bosnjak (2001) have also speculated that extraverts use the same sites as introverts but hop from one site to the next more frequently.”
Factors affecting response rates of the web survey: A systematic review (2010, background): “…respondents and non-respondents, respondents who are more likely to participate in the survey are conscientiousness (Rogelberg et al., 2003), agreeable (Marcus & Schutz, 2005; Rogelberg et al., 2003; Tuten & Bosnjak, 2001), and openness to experience (Marcus & Schutz, 2005; Tuten & Bosnjak, 2001).”
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): “…experience Individuals with high scores on openness to experience are more likely to try new methods of communication, have broad interests, and seek out new and novel experiences, including the experiences available through SNS (Butt & Phillips, 2008; McCrae & Costa, 1987; Tuten & Bosnjak, 2001).”
Individual differences in Internet usage motives (2004, background): “Psychographics and demographics have also been criticized for their often poor predictive qualities and seeming difficulty in interpreting results (Beville, 1988; Eastman, 1989).”
A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage (2012, background): “Early opinions suggested that those high in Neuroticism were likely to avoid the internet (Tuten & Bosnjak, 2001).”
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).”