Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use
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Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use
Facebook is quickly becoming one of the most popular tools for social communication. However, Facebook is somewhat different from other Social Networking Sites as it demonstrates an offline-to-online trend; that is, the majority of Facebook Friends are met offline and then added later. The present research investigated how the Five-Factor Model of personality relates to Facebook use. Despite so...
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Rae and Lonborg’s (2015) findings are intriguing. They show greater Facebook (FB) use intensity can have beneficial or adverse effects on psychological well-being (PWB) depending on the user’s motives. This underlines that not all motives are equal: some motives are harmful and others helpful when it comes to PWB and psychopathology outcomes. Four central issues were raised: (1) exclusive focus...
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عنوان ژورنال: Computers in Human Behavior
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0747-5632
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.12.024