Personality variables as predictors of facebook usage

Psychological Reports

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 528-539

  Caci, Barbara ^a   Cardaci, Maurizio ^a   Tabacchi, Marco E ^a   Scrima, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898407263     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/21.09.PR0.114k23w6     Document Type: Article

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