The Big Five, self-esteem, and narcissism as predictors of the topics people write about in Facebook status updates

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-40

  Marshall, Tara C ^a   Lefringhausen, Katharina ^a   Ferenczi, Nelli ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big five; Facebook; Narcissism; Self esteem; Social media; Social networking; Status updates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945192824     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.039     Document Type: Article

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