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A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage
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“For instance, studies looking at similarities and differences among social platforms found differences with respect to user personalities (Hughes et al., 2012), news spreading (Lerman and Ghosh, 2010), or content sharing (Ottoni et al., 2014).”
From Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019) · cites this paper as Hughes et al., 2012
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“Furthermore, people high in openness to experience have been observed to frequently find and share information (Hughes, Rowe, Batey, & Lee, 2012), but negative (e.g., Andreassen et al., 2013; Błachnio et al., 2017) or non-significant (e.g., Bodroža & Jovanović, 2016; Tang et al., 2016) associations have been found between this trait and PFU.”
From A comprehensive meta-analysis on Problematic Facebook Use (2018) · cites this paper as Hughes, Rowe, Batey, & Lee, 2012
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“In addition to the factors in the TPB, previous studies have shown that personality traits may be associated with SNSs excessive use and addiction (Amichai-hamburger & Vinitzky, 2010;Hughes, Rowe, Batey, & Lee, 2012;Jenkins-Guarnieri, Wright, & Hudiburgh, 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hughes, D. J., Rowe, M., Batey, M., & Lee, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hughes, David John
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-03
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 561-569
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2105543408
- Cited by
- 1,011
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 42.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
- Pure (University of Bath) (acceptedVersion, public-domain)
- The University of Bath Online Publications Store (The University of Bath) (submittedVersion)
- Coventry University Open Collections (Coventry university) (submittedVersion)
- Pure (Coventry University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- The Open Collections (Coventry University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- personality, social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, Big Five personality traits, need for cognition, sociability, information seeking, social media use, age differences, gender differences
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