TY - GEN
T1 - The correlations between the big-five personality traits and social networking site usage of elementary school students in Taiwan
AU - Chou, Ying Chun
AU - Chiu, Chiung Hui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Big-Five-factor model
KW - Elementary school students
KW - Online usage
KW - Personality traits
KW - Social networking site
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-17398-6_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946406991
SN - 9783319173979
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 141
EP - 148
BT - Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things
A2 - Abraham, Ajith
A2 - Muda, Azah Kamilah
A2 - Choo, Yun-Huoy
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 4th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2014
Y2 - 8 December 2014 through 11 December 2014
ER -