“Liking” and being “liked”: How are personality traits and demographics associated with giving and receiving “likes” on Facebook?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 292-299

  Hong, Cheng ^a   Chen, Zifei Fay ^a   Li, Cong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; Facebook likes; Gift giving; Impression management; Online self presentation; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

DEMOGRAPHICS; FACEBOOK; GIFT-GIVING; IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT; PERSONALITY TRAITS; SELF PRESENTATIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENDER; GIFT GIVING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84999723796     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.048     Document Type: Article

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