The correlations between the big-five personality traits and social networking site usage of elementary school students in Taiwan

Ying Chun Chou; Chiung Hui Chiu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_13

The correlations between the big-five personality traits and social networking site usage of elementary school students in Taiwan

Ying Chun Chou, Chiung Hui Chiu^*

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Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education

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Abstract

The Big-Five personality traits may influence people’s usage of social networking sites (SNSs), and that of children may not be the same as adolescents or adults. This study investigated the relationships between elementary school students’ personality traits and their usage of SNSs. Two hundred and forty 6th graders in Taiwan were involved in this work. The results indicated there were no gender differences in students’ SNS usage. Extraversion had a significantly positive relationship with SNSs’ usage for sharing, branding, monitoring, and learning. Emotional stability had a positive correlation with using SNSs for relaxing. Learning was the most frequent activity carried out on SNSs among the elementary school students examined in this work, and few of them used such sites for expressing, branding, sharing, or organizing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things
Editors	Ajith Abraham, Azah Kamilah Muda, Yun-Huoy Choo
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	141-148
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783319173979
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_13
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	4th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2014 - Malacca, Malaysia Duration: 2014 Dec 8 → 2014 Dec 11

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	355
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357

Other

Other	4th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2014
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Malacca
Period	2014/12/08 → 2014/12/11

Keywords

Big-Five-factor model
Elementary school students
Online usage
Personality traits
Social networking site

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
General Computer Science

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Chou, Y. C., & Chiu, C. H. (2015). The correlations between the big-five personality traits and social networking site usage of elementary school students in Taiwan. In A. Abraham, A. K. Muda, & Y.-H. Choo (Eds.), Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things (pp. 141-148). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 355). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_13

The correlations between the big-five personality traits and social networking site usage of elementary school students in Taiwan. / Chou, Ying Chun; Chiu, Chiung Hui.
Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things. ed. / Ajith Abraham; Azah Kamilah Muda; Yun-Huoy Choo. Springer Verlag, 2015. p. 141-148 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 355).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Chou, YC & Chiu, CH 2015, The correlations between the big-five personality traits and social networking site usage of elementary school students in Taiwan. in A Abraham, AK Muda & Y-H Choo (eds), Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 355, Springer Verlag, pp. 141-148, 4th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2014, Malacca, Malaysia, 2014/12/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_13

Chou YC, Chiu CH. The correlations between the big-five personality traits and social networking site usage of elementary school students in Taiwan. In Abraham A, Muda AK, Choo YH, editors, Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things. Springer Verlag. 2015. p. 141-148. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_13

Chou, Ying Chun ; Chiu, Chiung Hui. / The correlations between the big-five personality traits and social networking site usage of elementary school students in Taiwan. Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things. editor / Ajith Abraham ; Azah Kamilah Muda ; Yun-Huoy Choo. Springer Verlag, 2015. pp. 141-148 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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