Another brick in the Facebook wall - How personality traits relate to the content of status updates

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue , 2014, Pages 194-202

  Winter, Stephan ^a   Neubaum, German ^a   Eimler, Sabrina C ^a   Gordon, Vanessa ^a   Theil, Jenna ^a   Herrmann, Jonathan ^a   Meinert, Judith ^a   Krämer, Nicole C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Narcissism; Personality traits; Self disclosure; Self presentation; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894635152     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.048     Document Type: Article

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