Internet applications use and personality

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 27-38

  Tan, Wee Kheng ^a   Yang, Cheng Yi ^a  

^a KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Application characteristics; Big Five; Internet applications; Personality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

BASIC APPLICATION; BIG FIVE; INTERNET APPLICATION; INTERNET USERS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TRAITS;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84886092825     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. I. Ahmad The Big Five Personality Inventory: performance of students and community in Pakistan Journal of Behavioural Sciences 20 2 2010 63 79
2. Y. Amichai-Hamburger Internet and personality Computers in Human Behavior 18 2002 1 10
3. Y. Amichai-Hamburger, and E. Ben-Artzi The relationship between extraversion & neuroticism & the different uses of the Internet Computers in Human Behavior 16 4 2000 441 449
4. Y. Amichai-Hamburger, H. Kaplan, and N. Dorpatcheon Click to the past: the impact of extroversion by users of nostalgic website on the use of Internet social services Computers in Human Behavior 24 2008 1907 1912
5. Y. Amichai-Hamburger, N. Lamdan, R. Madiel, and T. Hayat Personality characteristics of Wikipedia members Cyberpsychology & Behavior 11 6 2008 679 681
6. Y. Amichai-Hamburger, and G. Vinitzky Social network use and personality Computers in Human Behavior 26 2010 1289 1295
7. T. Amiel, and S.L. Sargent Individual differences in Internet usage motives Computers in Human Behavior 20 2004 711 726
8. A. Ariffin, A. Ahmad, and N. Ishak Corporate meeting destination choice: the influences of consumption value, organizational structure and personality International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration 9 4 2008 313 326
9. F. Bacanli Personality characteristics as predictors of personal indecisiveness Journal of Career Development 32 2006 320 332
10. A. Bowling Research Methods in Health: Investigating Health and Health Services 1997 Open University Press Buckingham
11. S. Butt, and J.G. Phillips Personality and self reported mobile phone use Computers in Human Behavior 24 2 2008 346 360
12. J.A. Castañeda, and F.J. Montoro The effect of Internet general privacy concern on customer behavior Electronic Commerce Research 7 2 2007 117 141
13. Chang, S.C.; Liu, P.H.; 2011. Using focus group to investigate why people use Facebook: the case of Taiwan. In: Proceedings of Technology Management in the Energy Smart World (PICMET).
14. K.H. Chen, K.S. Shen, and M.Y. Ma The functional and usable appeal of Facebook SNS games Internet Research 22 4 2012 467 481
15. C. Chou, and M.J. Tsai Gender differences in Taiwan high school students' computer game playing Computers in Human Behavior 23 2007 812 824
16. H. Cole, and M.D. Griffiths Social interactions in massively multiplayer online role-playing gamers CyberPsychology & Behavior 10 4 2007 575 583
17. T. Correa, A.W. Hinsley, and H. Gil De Zúñiga Who interacts on the Web? The intersection of users' personality & social media use Computers in Human Behavior 26 2010 247 253
18. P. Costa, and R. McCrae Four ways five factors are basic Personality and Individual Differences 13 6 1992 653 665
19. S. Deka, and N. Lahkar Performance evaluation and comparison of the five most used search engines in retrieving web resources Online Information Review 34 5 2010 757 771
20. S. Devaraj, R.F. Easley, and J.M. Crant How does personality matter? Relating the five factor model to technology acceptance and use Information Systems Research 19 1 2008 93 105
21. Falaleeva, N.G.; Johnson, R.D.; 2002. Influence of individual psychological traits on attribution toward computing technology. In: Proceedings of Eighth Americas Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2002), pp. 1028-1033.
22. G. Fayombo The relationship between personality traits and psychological resilience among the Caribbean adolescents International Journal of Psychological Studies 2 2 2010 105 116
23. L.M. Flaherty, K.J. Pearce, and R.B. Rubin Internet and face-to-face communication: not functional alternatives Communication Quarterly 46 1998 250 266
24. N. Gandal The dynamics of competition in the Internet search engine market International Journal of Industrial Organization 19 7 2001 1103 1117
25. M.S. Gazzaniga, and T.F. Heatherton Psychological Science 2003 W.W. Norton & Company New York
26. P. Grace-Farfaglia, A. Dekkers, B. Sundararajan, L. Peters, and S.H. Park Multinational web uses and gratifications: measuring the social impact of online community participation across national boundaries Electronic Commerce Research 6 2006 75 101
27. M.D. Griffiths Computer game playing in early adolescence Youth and Society 29 2 1997 223 237
28. R. Guadagno, B. Okdie, and C. Eno Who blogs? Personality predictors of blogging Computers in Human Behavior 24 2008 1993 2004
29. M. Gunkel, and C. Schlaegel The influence of personality on students' career decisiveness - a comparison between Chinese and German economics and management students Management Revue - The International Review of Management Studies 21 3 2010 229 243
30. J.F. Hair, R.E. Anderson, R.L. Tatham, and W.C. Black Multivariate Data Analysis fifth ed. 1998 Prentice Hall New Jersey
31. D. Heller, T. Judge, and D. Watson The confounding role of personality and trait affectivity in the relationship between job and life satisfaction Journal of Organizational Behavior 23 7 2002 815 835
32. P. Hills, and M. Argyle Uses of the Internet and their relationships with individual differences in personality Computers in Human Behavior 19 2003 59 70
33. J.H. Huang, and Y.C. Yang The relationship between personality traits & online shopping motivations Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal 38 5 2010 673 679
34. S.P. Jeng, and C.I. Teng Personality and motivations for playing online games Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal 36 8 2008 1053 1060
35. O.P. John, and S. Srivastava The Big Five: history, measurement, & development L.A. Pervin, O.P. John, Handbook of Personality: Theory & Research 1999 Guilford Press New York 102 138
36. R.D. Johnson, G.M. Marakas, and J.W. Palmer Differential social attributions toward computing technology: an empirical investigation International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 64 5 2006 446 460
37. T.A. Judge, J.E. Bono, R. Ilies, and M.W. Gerhardt Personality and leadership: a qualitative and quantitative review Journal of Applied Psychology 87 2002 765 780
38. G. Kaushik, P. Dhumal, and S. Chawla Viability of fee-based email service for retail customers The Journal of Computer Information Systems 52 1 2011 56 65
39. A. Krotoski Chicks and joysticks: an exploration of women and gaming 2004 Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association London
40. R.N. Landers, and J.W. Lounsbury An investigation of Big Five and narrow personality traits in relation to Internet usage Computers in Human Behavior 22 2006 283 293
41. H.G. Lee, S.C. Lee, H.Y. Kim, and R.H. Lee Is the internet making retail transactions more efficient? Comparison of online and offline CD retail markets Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 2 2003 266 277
42. M.C. Lee Understanding the behavioural intention to play online games - an extension of the theory of planned behaviour Online Information Review 33 5 2009 849 872
43. E. Lieber, and C. Syverson Online versus offline competition M. Peitz, J. Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy 2012 Oxford University Press New York 189 223
44. F. Lievens, C. Decaesteker, P. Coetsier, and J. Geirnaert Organizational attractiveness for prospective applicants: a person-organisation fit perspective Applied Psychology: An International Review 50 1 2001 30 52
45. C.P.V. Lin, Y.T.T. Lin, and W.H.M. Yang Research of influencing factors for usage of Facebook willingness - a case study on college students in the Tamsui area The Business & Management Review 2 2 2012 296 305
46. N.P. Lin, H.C. Chiu, and Y.C. Hsieh Investigating the relationship between service providers' personality and customers' perceptions of service quality across gender Total Quality Management 12 1 2001 57 67
47. S.K. Lo The impact of online game character's outward attractiveness and social status on interpersonal attraction Computers in Human Behavior 24 2008 1947 1958
48. J. Malin, and B.J. Fowers Adolescent self-control and music and movie piracy Computers in Human Behavior 25 3 2009 718 722
49. Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute of Taiwan, 2011. An analysis of the online entertainment behavior of Taiwanese, online users (in Chinese).
50. D. Matsumoto Are cultural differences in emotion regulation mediated by personality traits? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 37 4 2006 421 437
51. R.R. McCrae, and O.P. John An introduction to the five-factor model and its applications Journal of Personality 60 1992 175 215
52. K.Y.A. McKenna, and J.A. Bargh Coming out in the age of the Internet: identity "demarginalization" through virtual group participation Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 75 1998 681 694
53. T.A. Mooradian, and K.S. Swan Personality-and-culture: the case of national extraversion and word-of-mouth Journal of Business Research 59 6 2006 778 785
54. R.J. Nathan, P. Yeow, and S. Murugesan Key usability factors of service-oriented web sites for students: an empirical study Online Information Review 32 3 2008 302 324
55. J.C. Nunnally Jr. Psychometric Theory 1967 McGraw-Hill New York
56. E. Park, and T.B. Henley Personality and fantasy game character preferences Imagination, Cognition and Personality 27 1 2007 37 46
57. A. Peslak, W. Ceccucci, and P. Sendall An empirical study of instant messaging (IM) behavior using theory of reasoned action Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management 11 3 2010 263 278
58. S. Picazo-Vela, S.Y. Chou, A.J. Melcher, and J.M. Pearson Why provide an online review? An extended theory of planned behavior & the role of big-five personality traits Computers in Human Behavior 26 4 2010 685 696
59. T. Postmes, R. Spears, and M. Lea Intergroup differentiation in computer mediated communication: effects of depersonalization Group Dynamics 6 2002 3 15
60. K. Purcell The State of Online Video 2010 Pew Research Center Washington, DC < http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/State-of-Online-Video.aspx >
61. M.B. Reed, M.A. Bruch, and R.F. Haase Five-factor model of personality & career exploration Journal of Career Assessment 12 2004 223 238
62. G. Reid The latest in web email Tech Directions 71 2 2012 12
63. J.P. Rolland Cross-cultural generalizability of the five-factor model of personality R. McCrae, J. Allik, The Five-Factor Model of Personality Across Cultures 2002 Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers New York 7 28
64. R.C. Rose, S.S. Ramalu, J. Uli, and N. Kumar Expatriate performance in overseas assignments: the role of Big Five Personality Asian Social Science 6 9 2010 104 113
65. C. Ross, E.S. Orr, M. Sisic, J.M. Arseneault, M.G. Simmering, and R.R. Orr Personality & motivations associated with Facebook use Computers in Human Behavior 25 2 2009 578 586
66. R.V. Russell Pastimes: The Context of Contemporary Leisure fourth ed. 2009 Sagamore Publishing LLC Champaign, IL
67. A. Sanders Using personality traits to predict police officer performance Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management 31 1 2008 129 147
68. D.P. Schmitt, J. Allik, R.R. McCrae, and V. Benet-Martínez The geographic distribution of Big Five Personality Traits: patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 38 2007 173 212
69. D.P. Schultz, and S.E. Schultz Theories of Personality ninth ed. 2009 Cengage Learning Wadsworth
70. T. Seymour, D. Frantsvog, and S. Kumar History of search engines International Journal of Management and Information Systems 15 4 2011 47 58
71. R.J. Swickert, J.B. Hittner, J.L. Harris, and J.A. Herring Relationships among Internet use, personality, and social support Computers in Human Behavior 18 2002 437 451
72. B. Tabachnick, and L. Fidell Using Multivariate Statistics 1996 Harper Collins New York
73. A. Terracciano National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures Science 310 5745 2005 96 100
74. R.P. Tett, and D.D. Burnett A personality trait-based interactionist model of job performance Journal of Applied Psychology 88 3 2003 500 518
75. L.P. Tosun, and T. Lajunen Does Internet use reflect your personality? Relationship between Eysenck's personality dimensions and Internet use Computers in Human Behavior 26 2010 162 167
76. S. Turkle Virtuality and its discontents: searching for community in cyberspace The American Prospect 24 1996 50 57
77. T. Tuten, and M. Bosnjak Understanding differences in web usage: the role of need for cognition and the five factor model of personality Social Behavior and Personality 29 2001 391 398
78. H.Y. Wang, and Y.S. Wang Gender differences in the perception and acceptance of online games British Journal of Educational Technology 39 5 2008 787 806
79. P. Williams, D. Nicholas, and I. Rowlands The attitudes and behaviours of illegal downloaders Aslib Proceedings 62 3 2010 283 301
80. L.L. Yang, and M. Liu The relationship between adolescents' conscientiousness, Internet service preference and Internet addiction Psychological Science 29 4 2006 947 950
81. J. Zywica, and J. Danowski The faces of Facebookers: investigating social enhancement & social compensation hypotheses Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14 1 2008 1 34