Users of the main smartphone operating systems (iOS, Android) differ only little in personality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Gotz, Friedrich M ^a,b   Stieger, Stefan ^a   Reips, Ulf Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAWING; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTIMISM; PESSIMISM; SELF ESTEEM; SMARTPHONE; SPEECH; WELLBEING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SMARTPHONE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018772154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176921     Document Type: Article

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