Addictive Behavior to Social Networks and Five Personality Traits in Young People

Rosales, Fuensanta López; Guajardo, Juan Ramón Becerra; Medrano, José Luis Jasso

doi:10.1007/s12646-020-00591-7

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“…Recently, growing attention has been paid to exploring the potential contributors to social media use and addiction since it may have a deep and long-term impact on people's cognitive processes and their mental health. We included a set of variables previously justified as potential contributors, such as self-esteem [18][19][20]30], fear of negative evaluation [28][29][30], sensation seeking [35] and personality factors [38,41]. Studies on the role of personality dimensions revealed particularly mixed and inconsistent results [37,41].…”

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“…In a study of university students, social media addiction was found to be positively associated with neuroticism and negatively with agreeableness and conscientiousness. In addition, extraversion and openness to experiences did not show a relationship [38]. In another study that included Turkish university students, conscientiousness, openness to experience and agreeableness were negative predictors of Facebook addiction [39].…”

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confidence: 87%

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Social Media Addiction, Personality Factors and Fear of Negative Evaluation in a Sample of Young Adults

Piko,

Krajczár,

Kiss

2024

Youth

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Despite growing attention paid to exploring the benefits as well as negative consequences of social media use, we know less about the background variables involved in social media addiction. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate several potential contributors to addiction to social media, namely, self-esteem, fear of negative evaluation, sensation seeking and five personality variables. The participants of the online survey were Hungarian university students (N = 250, aged between 18 and 35 years; 59.2% female). Females scored higher on the social media addiction scale [t(248) = −2.42, p < 0.05]. The findings showed that (a) fear of negative evaluation positively predicted social media addiction (β = 0.28, p < 0.001) and (b) self-esteem (β = −0.23, p < 0.01) and conscientiousness (β = −0.14, p < 0.05) negatively predicted social media addiction in this sample of young adults. Additionally, social media addiction was negatively correlated with emotional stability [r (250) = −0.38, p < 0.001] and positively with extraversion; however, these variables were not significant predictors in the multivariate analysis. These findings suggest that young people should learn how to carefully use the Internet and social media settings, e.g., courses on addiction to digital devices should be accessible to all university students.

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Social Media Addiction, Personality Factors and Fear of Negative Evaluation in a Sample of Young Adults

Piko,

Krajczár,

Kiss

2024

Youth

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“…Following social role theory, a social psychological theory concerning gender differences and similarities in social behavior (Eagly, 1987), we expect gender influences in social media consumption and the level of child vulnerability. Moreover, personality traits such as extroversion and neuroticism are found to be associated social media engagement (Yu et al, 2020) and addiction (Dalvi-Esfahani et al, 2021;Rosales et al, 2021), and thus, they could explain the nexus between social media consumption and well-being (McNamee et al, 2021;Smith et al, 2021) among children. Within Bandura's framework for social learning, self-efficacy (i.e.…”

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“…Moreover, personality traits such as extroversion and neuroticism are found to be associated social media engagement (Yu et al, 2020) and addiction (Dalvi-Esfahani et al, 2021; Rosales et al, 2021), and thus, they could explain the nexus between social media consumption and well-being (McNamee et al, 2021; Smith et al, 2021) among children. Within Bandura’s framework for social learning, self-efficacy (i.e.…”

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A Paradox Theory of Social Media Consumption and Child Well-Being

Yap

Lim

2023

Australasian Marketing Journal

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Social media has impacted child well-being in paradoxical ways. Yet, our understanding of this paradox remains piecemeal. To address this gap, this conceptual article endeavors to delineate the interplay between child well-being and contradictions associated with social media consumption and the ways to manage these contradictions. Using paradox theory, we develop a theoretical framework that explains the relationships and dynamics surrounding conflicting demands between empowerment and protection and the cyclical responses to paradoxical tensions involving social media that are affecting child well-being. Using this framework, we offer a collection of propositions to stimulate further research on the empowerment–protection paradox and a set of mediating pathways to manage paradoxical tensions arising from social media consumption and promote children’s well-being in the digital era.

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“…(2018) . Rosales, Guajardo & Medrano (2021) found that only neuroticism among the big five personality traits was significantly correlated with Facebook addiction. Horzum et al..(2021) found that conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness to experience have significantly predicted Facebook addiction whereas extraversion and neuroticism did not.…”

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confidence: 98%