Personality Traits among Frequent and Infrequent Facebook Users

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Sudeshna Chakrabarti ◽  
Aparajita Singha
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
General Information ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Time Activity ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Facebook Use ◽  
Present World ◽  
Larger Sample

Background: Use of Facebook is a most common phenomenon in the present world. But it has been seen that gradually excessive use of Facebook often creates some psychological problems. Literature shows that there are some specific personality profiles which are responsible for excessive Facebook use. So the main objective of the study is to reveal the specific personality profile of frequent and infrequent Facebook users. Methodology: A group of 30 frequent Facebook users of Agartala were compared with a group of 30 infrequent Facebook users aged between 18-24 years in respect to their personality traits and leisure time activity preferences with the help of Cattell’s 16 Personality Questionnaire and a general information schedule. Results: The result reveals that the frequent Facebook users are enthusiastic, cheerful, talkative, frank, expressive, quick, alert, and imperturbable, they put more emphasis in concrete thinking, they are also undependable, unsteady, quitting. And the infrequent Facebook users are self sufficient, independent, resolute, and accustomed to going their own way, making decisions and taking actions by their own and they also put more emphasis in concrete thinking. Conclusion: It may be concluded from the study that there is a significant difference between personality traits of frequent and infrequent Facebook users. However, a study with a larger sample may reveal more information regarding this issue. Keywords: Personality traits, facebook users,

Recognition of Learner's Personality Traits through Digital Annotations in Distance Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nizar Omheni ◽  
Anis Kalboussi ◽  
Omar Mazhoud ◽  
Ahmed Hadj Kacem
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Reasonable Accuracy ◽  
Active Reading ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Asking Questions

Researchers in distance education are interested in observing and modelling of learner's personality profile, and adapting their learning experiences accordingly. When learners read and interact with their reading materials, they do unselfconscious activities like annotation which may be key feature of their personalities. Annotation activity requires the reader to be active, to think critically and to analyse what has been written, and to make specific annotations in the margins of the text. These traces are reflected through underlining, highlighting, scribbling comments, summarizing, asking questions, expressing confusion or ambiguity, and evaluating the content of reading. In this paper, the authors present a semi-automatic approach to build learners' personality profiles based on their annotation traces yielded during active reading sessions. The experimental results show the system's efficiency to measure, with reasonable accuracy, the scores of learner's personality traits.

scholarly journals Personality Profiles that Put Users at Risk of Perceiving Technostress

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Pflügner ◽  
Christian Maier ◽  
Jens Mattke ◽  
Tim Weitzel
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Systems Research

AbstractSome information systems research has considered that individual personality traits influence whether users feel stressed by information and communication technologies. Personality research suggests, however, that personality traits do not act individually, but interact interdependently to constitute a personality profile that guides individual perceptions and behavior. The study relies on the differential exposure-reactivity model to investigate which personality profiles of the Big Five personality traits predispose users to perceive techno-stressors. Using a questionnaire, data was collected from 221 users working in different organizations. That data was analyzed using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Based on the results, six different personality profiles that predispose to perceive high techno-stressors are identified. By investigating personality traits in terms of profiles, it is shown that a high and a low level of a personality trait can influence the perception of techno-stressors. The results will allow users and practitioners to identify individuals who are at risk of perceiving techno-stressors based on their personality profile. The post-survey analysis offers starting points for the prevention of perceived techno-stressors and the related negative consequences for specific personality profiles.

Personality Traits and Academic Achievement among College Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Shashi Kala Singh
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
High Achiever ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Test Result

This study aims to determine the significant difference between high and low achievers on 16 personality traits factors. Among a sample of 200 adolescents (100 high achiever and 100 low achiever) studying in B.A part-I were selected by stratified random technique from different colleges located in Ranchi. 16 personality factor questionnaires were administered to measure the dimensions of personality traits of both the groups. Data was analyzed by using means, standard deviations and t test. Result revealed that high achievers had unique personality profile than low achievers.

Personality Profiles for Administrators and Staff in a Private Correctional Facility

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Myers ◽  
Shelly Boughner ◽  
Fred Wallbrown
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Clinical Analysis ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Personality Profiles

This study provides a description of the personality profile for administrators and professional staff in a private correctional facility ( n = 30). The 1980 Clinical Analysis Questionnaire of Krug and Cattell was selected for use in the study since it provides a well-validated measure of both normal and abnormal personality traits which have been identified in the course of forty years of carefully controlled research. Present findings showed healthy adjustment for the professionals employed within this agency.

A Cultural Comparison of Personality Profiles of U.S. and Japanese Centenarians

2020 ◽  
pp. 009141502092000
Author(s):  
Grace D. da Rosa ◽  
Peter Martin ◽  
Joseph Kim ◽  
Daniel Russell ◽  
W. Todd Abraham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Latent Profile Analyses ◽  
Proxy Reports ◽  
Person Centered Approach

The purpose of this study was a cross-cultural examination of centenarians’ personality through a person-centered approach to examine if there is a “resilient” personality profile consistent across cultures. Proxy reports information was obtained from family and close friends of 239 U.S. centenarians from the Georgia Centenarians Study and 272 Japanese centenarians from the Tokyo Centenarian Study. Latent profile analyses were conducted to identify personality profiles in centenarians from the United States and Japan. Two personality profiles were identified in both samples: a “resilient” personality profile and “nonresilient” personality profile. The “resilient” group had higher levels of positive personality traits with higher scores on agreeableness and extraversion and lower scores on neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness. The “nonresilient” group had higher scores on neuroticism and lower scores on extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Fifty percent of U.S. centenarians and 65% of Japanese centenarians were in the “resilient” group.

scholarly journals Stress assessment in patients with clinically diagnosed sleep bruxism

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
pp. 1014-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Miletic ◽  
Zoran Lazic ◽  
Ana Todorovic ◽  
Igor Djordjevic ◽  
Danica Popovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Salivary Cortisol ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Sleep Bruxism ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
As Stress

Background/Aim. Many studies investigated association between stress, anxiety or personality traits and sleep bruxism (SB), but results are still contradictory. We aimed to investigate whether there is a relation between clinically diagnosed sleep bruxism and salivary cortisol levels as one of the major stress biomarkers and to examine psychological factors and personality traits specific to sleep bruxism. Methods. A total of 23 sleep bruxism patients and 42 healthy non-sleep bruxism adults participated in this study. Diagnose of sleep-bruxism was assessed by selfreport and clinical examination and also confirmed by bedpartner. Morning saliva was collected from all participants for analyses of the cortisol level. Sleep bruxism patients underwent a psychodiagnostic personality interpretation using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ? MMPI-202 test. Results. Statistically significant difference between levels of morning salivary cortisol in the group of SB patients and the control group was recorded (t = 2.943, p < 0.01). Analysis of the personality profiles indicated that the sleep bruxism patients avoid contact with unpleasant feelings, especially depression, suppress the aggression and censor the expression of anger and rage. Conclusion. This study showed that patients with sleep bruxism have higher levels of salivary cortisol. Personality traits such as depression, hypomania and suppressed aggression were found to be common characteristics in patients with sleep bruxism. Present findings might support the hypothesis that sleep bruxism and psychological states such as stress may be related, but the cross-sectional nature of this study does not allow us to draw conclusions about the causal relationship between stress, personality traits and sleep bruxism.

COMPUTER ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY: A DEMONSTRATION OF GULLIBILITY

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel Standing ◽  
Gregory Keays
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Psychological Tests ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Computer Assessment

Subjects (N= 64) were shown a list of 66 personality traits, and indicated whether or not they possessed each one. Three weeks later, they were shown their trait list, another subject's trait list, a computerized personality profile derived from their traits, or a profile derived from another subject's traits. In each case they rated how well their personality was described by the trait list or profile, on three seven point scales. It was found that the spurious personality descriptions (both traits and profiles) were rated as highly for accuracy as were the genuine descriptions. Interpretive personality profiles were rated no higher than simple lists of trait names. It is argued that these results should be attributed to general gullibility rather than, e.g., the impressiveness of psychological tests.

Relationship between Psychiatric Disorder & Suicidal Attempt: A Personality Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupali Chandola ◽  
S. C. Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Suicidal Attempt ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Maladaptive Behaviors ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Bipolar Mood Disorder ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives: Suicide is considered as an essential psychological and social problem, there is a universal attempt to prevent it. The prevalence of contemplating suicide is 16% and suicide attempt is 4.4% during one’s life. Inflexible personality traits play an important role in the development of maladaptive behaviors among patients who attempt suicide. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between personality profiles and suicidal attempt. Materials and Methods: eighty patients taken from Noormanzil Psychiatric Clinic& Hospital, Lucknow, U.P. India. Out of 80, 40 participants attempted suicide and rest of 40 non suicidal groups. Fifty two patients were in door and twenty eight were out door patients taken in this study. Dimension Personality Inventory (DPI) was administered on all the included subjects Results: There was highly significant difference in the mean score (p<0.05) on ‘activity –passivity’, ‘Enthusiastic- non enthusiastic’, ‘assertive- submissive ‘dimension of DPI between suicidal and non suicidal group of psychiatric patients. Conclusion: The findings of our study show that 22.5% of suicide attempters have bipolar mood disorder at least one maladaptive personality traits.

Individual Differences in Students' Preferences for Lecturers' Personalities

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 176-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Furnham ◽  
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Student Ratings ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Similarity Effect ◽  
Intelligence Scores ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. This study examines the relationship between students' personality and intelligence scores with their preferences for the personality profile of their lecturers. Student ratings (N = 136) of 30 lecturer trait characteristics were coded into an internally reliable Big Five taxonomy ( Costa & McCrae, 1992 ). Descriptive statistics showed that, overall, students tended to prefer conscientious, open, and stable lecturers, though correlations revealed that these preferences were largely a function of students' own personality traits. Thus, open students preferred open lecturers, while agreeable students preferred agreeable lecturers. There was evidence of a similarity effect for both Agreeableness and Openness. In addition, less intelligent students were more likely to prefer agreeable lecturers than their more intelligent counterparts were. A series of regressions showed that individual differences are particularly good predictors of preferences for agreeable lecturers, and modest, albeit significant, predictors of preferences for open and neurotic lecturers. Educational and vocational implications are considered.

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