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Personality and Individual Differences - Coggle Diagram
Personality and Individual Differences
. The Big Five
Neuroticism is characterized by anxiety and sensitivity to
threat.
Neurotic individuals may use Facebook to seek the attention and social support that may be missing from their lives offline.
Openness is positively associated with frequency of social media use, and with using Facebook for finding and disseminating information, but not for socializing.
Extraversion would be positively associated with updating about social activities, and that this association would be mediated by extraverts’ use of Facebook for communication
Agreeableness is positively associated with posting on Facebook to communicate and connect with others and negatively associated with posting to seek attention.
Conscientiousness describes people who are organized responsible, and hard-working. They tend to use Facebook less frequently
than people who are lower in conscientiousness.
Response to status updates
Examined whether people receive differential numbers of
likes and comments to their updates depending on their personality traits and frequency of writing about various topics.
People with lower self-esteem tend to receive fewer likes and comments because their status updates express more negative affect.
Tested the possibility that they may also receive fewer likes and comments because they are more likely to update about their romantic partner (Hypothesis 8)
Indeed, people who write updates that are high in relationship disclosure are perceived as less likeable.
Narcissism
They seek attention and admiration by boasting about their accomplishments and take particular care of their physical appearance.
Their status updates will more frequently reference their achievements and their diet and exercise routine.
The choice of these topics may be motivated by the use of status updates to gain validation for inflated self-views.
Consistent with the positive association of narcissism with the frequency of updating one’s status, posting more self-promoting content and seeking to attract
admiring friends to one’s Facebook profile
Self-esteem
People with low self-esteem are more likely to see the advantages of self-disclosing on Facebook rather than in person.
Anxiously attached individuals who tend to have low self-esteem post more often about their romantic relationship to boost
their self-worth and to refute others’ impressions that their relationship is poor.
Hypothesized that self-esteem would be negatively associated with updating about a romantic partner, and that this association would be mediated by the use of Facebook for validation .