Relationship Between Personality Traits and Psychological Vulnerability: Mediating Role of Smartphone Social Network Usage

Background: According to the spread and popularity of social networks and easy access to them through smartphones, the impact of these networks’ long-term application and consequences, including psychological vulnerability, could not be ignored. Objectives: The present study investigated the mediating role of using smartphone social networks considering personality traits and psychological vulnerability. Methods: The research population included all users (over 18 years of age) of social networks in Isfahan, Iran, from which 250 individuals (i.e. 96 male and 154 female subjects) were selected. The research method was descriptive and causal-correlational. For data collection, the short-form five-factor personality questionnaire neuroticism-extraversion-openness (NEO), the smartphone social media addiction questionnaire, and a psychological vulnerability questionnaire were used. The Pearson correlation coefficient and the path analysis of structural equation modeling were employed to analyze the data. Results: The findings revealed that among personality factors, neuroticism and low extraversion could explain the use of social networks in a significant and desirable way. Moreover, using social networks could explain psychological vulnerability in the form of causal-structural relationships. Conclusions: The findings indicated a relatively good fit of the measurement model. Accordingly, the variable of social network usage plays a mediating role in the relationship between psychological vulnerability and some personality traits.

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Gender and Organizational Conflict Management: The Mediating Role of Personality

10.31234/osf.io/zewmr ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Maciej Kościelniak ◽

Jarosław Piotrowski ◽

Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska

Keyword(s):

Conflict Management ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Online Survey ◽

Conflict Behavior ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Conflict Management Styles ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Big Five Model

Many authors examined the interplay between gender and conflict management preferences, but those findings were often mixed and inconsistent. In the current paper we tried to explain those inconsistencies by investigating the mediating role of personality for the relationship of gender and conflict management. Rahim's inventory was used for identifying five conflict management styles, and Big Five Model theory was a base for assessing participants' personality traits. Data were collected from a sample of 1,055 working Poles (52.7% women), in an online survey. Based on the structural equation modeling we detected multiple indirect mediating paths of gender on conflict management via personality traits, while no direct effect of gender was observed. Despite some limitations, the study sheds light on the actual role of gender in conflict behavior and the importance of personality traits in the conflict management, both from a theoretical and practical perspective.

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The Mediating Role of Electronic Performance Monitoring in the relationship between Personality Traits and Work Passion

Asian Journal of Business Research ◽

10.14707/ajbr.210109 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Fizza Hussain ◽

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Mumtaz Ali Memon ◽

Hadia Naeem ◽

Shumaila Hafeez ◽

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Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Performance Monitoring ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Electronic Performance Monitoring ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Electronic Performance ◽

The Relationship ◽

Work Passion

This study aims to study the relationship between personality traits (conscientiousness and extraversion), electronic performance monitoring (EPM) and work passion. In addition, it investigates the mediating role of EPM between personality traits and work passion. Data was collected from 105 employees working in call centers throughout Pakistan. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), using SmartPLS 3.0, was performed to test the hypothesized model. The results showed that consciousness and extraversion have a positive impact on EPM and work passion. In addition, EPM acts significantly as a mediator between personality traits and work passion among call center employees. This is the first study that examines the mediating role of EPM in the relation between personality differences and work passion. The results of the study would help Asian human resources professionals effectively perform human resources functions, such as employee staffing, training, and performance management. Implications for managers and recommendations for future studies are proposed.

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Impact of Social Entrepreneurial Factors on Sustainable Enterprise Development: Mediating Role of Social Network and Moderating Effect of Government Regulations

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/21582440211030636 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 215824402110306

Author(s):

Wang Jiatong ◽

Cai Li ◽

Majid Murad ◽

Fakhar Shahzad ◽

Sheikh Farhan Ashraf

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Innovation ◽

Moderating Effect ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Enterprise Development ◽

Social Entrepreneurs ◽

Government Regulations ◽

Social Mission ◽

Mediating Role

Social entrepreneurship is the procedure of social mission that helps the society using innovative ideas and merging resources to develop economic and social values. This study aims to identify the role of social mission and social innovation on sustainable enterprise development with the mediating role of social network, and the moderating role of government regulations. The nature of our study is cross-sectional, and structural equation modeling is used on a sample of 486 social entrepreneurs from 27 countries with the help of online survey data. The results illustrate that social mission and social innovation are positively related to sustainable enterprise development. Besides, findings indicate that social network has a partially mediating role in the relationship between social mission and social innovation on sustainable enterprise development. Moreover, this study states that government regulations also have a positive influence and significant moderating effect on sustainable enterprise development. Our findings might be helpful for social entrepreneurs to create a more positive social impact on society and business enterprise’s growth.

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Personality and Attitude towards Teaching Profession: Mediating Role of Self Efficacy

Journal of Education and Training Studies ◽

10.11114/jets.v5i9.2536 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (9) ◽

pp. 70 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mehmet Üstüner

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Efficacy Beliefs ◽

Teaching Profession ◽

The Self ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Efficacy Belief ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Teacher Self Efficacy

The objective of the present study is to examine the correlation between the five factor personality traits of pre-service teachers and their attitudes towards the teaching profession and to test the mediating role of the pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs. The study population included pre-service teachers that attended the "pedagogical formation course" instructed / applied in İnönü University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences in 2015-2016 academic year. The survey sample included 382 pre-service teachers who voluntarily responded to the measurement instruments utilized in the study. The study data were collected with the "five factor personality scale", "attitudes towards the teaching profession scale" and "teacher self-efficacy scale". The obtained data were analyzed with path analysis of structural equation modeling. In conclusion, it was observed that there was a significant positive correlation between the five factor personality traits of extraversion, conscientiousness, openness and agreeableness and teacher self-efficacy belief, and there was a significant negative correlation between neuroticism personality trait and teacher self-efficacy belief. It was observed that the self-efficacy beliefs of pre-service teachers played a full mediating role between their neuroticism, openness and extraversion personality traits, and the same played a partial mediating role in the correlation between conscientiousness and agreeableness personality traits and the attitude towards the teaching profession. The implementation of a curriculum in pre-service teacher training that would increase the self-efficacy beliefs on teaching would also improve their attitudes towards the profession positively.

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Speak, memory: the postphenomenological analysis of memory-making in the age of algorithmically powered social networks

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications ◽

10.1057/s41599-021-00972-x ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Olya Kudina

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Network ◽

Technological Infrastructure ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Specific Interpretation ◽

Meaningful Context ◽

Memory Control ◽

Productive Role

AbstractThis paper explores the productive role that social network platforms such as Facebook, play in the practice of memory-making. While such platforms facilitate interaction across distance and time, they also solidify human self-expression and memory-making by systematically confronting the users with their digital past. By relying on the framework of postphenomenology, the analysis will scrutinize the mediating role of the Memories feature of Facebook, powered by recurring algorithmic scheduling and devoid of meaningful context. More specifically, it will show how this technological infrastructure mediates the concepts of memory, control and space, evoking a specific interpretation of the values of time, remembering and forgetting. As such, apart from preserving memories, Facebook appears as their co-producer, guiding the users in determining the criteria for remembering and forgetting. The paper finishes with suggestions on how to critically appropriate the memory-making features of social network platforms that would both enable their informed use and account for their mediating role in co-shaping good memories.

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Impact of dark tetrad personality traits on nascent entrepreneurial behavior: the mediating role of entrepreneurial intention

Frontiers of Business Research in China ◽

10.1186/s11782-021-00103-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Li Cai ◽

Majid Murad ◽

Sheikh Farhan Ashraf ◽

Shumaila Naz

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Entrepreneurial Behavior ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Impact

AbstractThe impact of negative personality traits on entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial behavior has become a research focus in the field of entrepreneurship. This study aimed to identify the influence of dark tetrad personality traits on the nascent entrepreneurial behavior and the mediating role of entrepreneurial intention. This study used partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to test the hypotheses on a sample of 347 undergraduate and postgraduate university students from China. The results of this study revealed that narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism have a positive and significant influence on nascent entrepreneurial behavior and entrepreneurial intention, which significantly partially mediates the relationship between dark tetrad and nascent entrepreneurial behavior. The finding of the study implies China’s higher education and policymakers to unlock the hidden potential of its youth. This study contributes to the emerging literature on psychology and entrepreneurship and provides evidence that individuals with a high level of dark tetrad are more likely to be involved in entrepreneurial action.

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Mediating Role of Attitude towards Betrayal and Marital Conflict in Relation between Using Virtual Social Networks and Emotional Divorce

Journal of Community Health Research ◽

10.18502/jchr.v8i4.2077 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Seyedeh Sara Shakeri ◽

Jafar Shabani ◽

Hamidreza Aghamohammadian Sharbaf ◽

Seyed Mojtaba Aghili

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Marital Conflict ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Virtual Networks ◽

Direct Role ◽

Marital Conflicts ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Quota Sampling

Introduction: Research results show that unmanaged use of virtual networks is the cause of differences between couples. Accordingly, the present study aimed to determine the mediating role of attitudes toward betrayal and marital conflicts in the relationship between the use of virtual social networks and emotional divorce in married teachers in Mashhad. Method: The research method was descriptive-correlational and the society included married teachers in seven areas of education in Mashhad city in the academic year of 2017-2018. 375 teachers were selected by quota sampling method and completed questionnaires on social networks, emotional divorce, attitudes toward betrayal and marital conflicts. Data were analyzed using path analysis using Maximum Field Definition (ML). The structural equation modeling was used to analyze data using AMOS software version 25. Results: Based on the findings, the mediating role of attitude toward betrayal was not significant for predicting emotional divorce based on the use of virtual social networks (β = 0.06). Standardized β coefficient is 0.38 for predicting marital conflicts based on the use of virtual social networks and the coefficient for predicting emotional divorce based on marital conflicts is 0.54. Therefore, the role of conflicting intermediaries is significant for predicting emotional divorce based on the use of virtual social networks. Accordingly, the role of the mediating meanings of marital conflicts along with the non-perceptible role of attitudes toward betrayal, based on the use of virtual social networks, predicts a total of 20% of the variance of emotional divorce. If the direct role of using virtual social networks in predicting emotional divorce along with the role of intermediate variables is considered, 66% of the variance of emotional divorce is predictable. Fit indicators showed the optimal fitness of the model with the collected data. (P <0.05) Conclusion: The results of this study showed that increasing the use of virtual networks with increasing conflicts increases the incidence of emotional divorce in couples.

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WEALTH AND HEALTH IN PREDICTING ELDERS’ SOCIAL CAPABILITIES IN CHINA: MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORK

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.1348 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S369-S369

Author(s):

Yalu Zhang ◽

Qin Gao ◽

Fuhua Zhai ◽

Paul Anand

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Social Networks ◽

Social Network ◽

Mediation Analysis ◽

Freedom Of Expression ◽

Educational Background ◽

Capabilities Approach ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Positive Direct

Abstract Despite an established positive link between social wealth, health, and social capability among older adults, the effect and mechanisms among these factors are understudied. This paper uses the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) data and a mediation analysis method, combing social capital theory and a social capabilities approach, to provide new evidence on the effects of financial resource, physical function, and cognitive function on the social capabilities of older adults (aged 55 and above) in China and the possible mediating role of social network in this relationship. The descriptive analysis results show that urban older adults (n=5,274), on average, had lower freedom of expression, lower sense of living safety, and less frequent community participation, while having better self-perceived health, higher physical and cognitive functions, more household income, and higher educational background than their rural peers (n=5,270). The Baron and Kenny’s mediation analysis results show that social networks accounted for a substantial proportion of the effects of wealth and health on social capabilities, but wealth and health still had strong, positive direct effects of its own. Higher mediating effects of social networks were found in the association between functions and social capabilities of freedom of expression (9.46%) and sense of safety (36.33%) among rural older adults. Results of this study urge for further social policies and intervention programs to enhance older adults’ social capabilities, including social cohesion, sense of trust and safety, physical and mental functioning, and subjective well-being.

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Consumer Sentiments: a Missing Link between Personality Traits and Purchase Intention toward Foreign Products - an Empirical Study on Young Vietnamese Consumers

Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University ◽

10.35741/issn.0258-2724.55.4.39 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Thai-Ngoc Pham ◽

Nhu-Ty Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Purchase Intention ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Foreign Products ◽

Managerial Implications ◽

Using Data

The purpose of this research is to examine the influence of consumer sentiments on purchase intention toward foreign products and to determine which personality traits are responsible for the formation of consumer sentiments. In this study, we employed Structural Equation Modeling to test the research model using data collected from a survey of 400 young Vietnamese consumers in Ho Chi Minh City. The results provide empirical evidence of the positive impact of consumer cosmopolitanism and xenocentrism on consumers’ purchase intention toward foreign products. Furthermore, through this study, we indicated that certain personality traits shape consumer sentiments. Generally speaking, in the context of foreign consumption, there is an enhanced link between personality traits and purchase intention via the mediating role of consumer sentiments. Theoretical and managerial implications are also discussed.

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The Relationship Between Attachment Style and Social Network Addiction with the Mediating Role of Personality Traits

international journal high risk behaviors & addiction ◽

10.5812/ijhrba.101501 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Maisam Shafiee ◽

Ahmad Ashouri ◽

Mahmood Dehghani

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Network ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Attachment Style ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Structural Model ◽

Sample Population ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Relationship

Background: Social network sites (SNS) addiction has recently been a major concern and a common problem worldwide that makes it essential to examine the specifications of users and identify antecedents of it. Objectives: This study aimed at examining the relationship between attachment style and social media addiction with the mediating role of personality traits. Patients and Methods: In this research, the sample population was comprised of all of the students of universities in Tehran, Iran, during the academic year of 2018 - 2019. The participants (n = 241) were selected from universities in Tehran using the conventional method. The data were collected using measure of attachment qualities (MAQ), Social Media Disorder scale (SMDS), and Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), and then the data were analyzed using the chi-square, correlation coefficient, and structural modeling tests by SPSS and LISREL software. Results: The results showed there is a significant relationship between the worry-ambivalent (r = 0.308, P < 0.05) and the disorganize-ambivalent (r = 0.322, P < 0.05) (attachment styles) and the SNS addiction. Moreover, the structural model showed that among attachment styles, the ambivalence-disorganize attachment could mediate the social network addiction based on the character dimension of self-directedness (CFI: 0.94, NFI: 0.92, RMSEA: 0.09). Conclusions: The character dimension of self-directedness can reduce the adverse effects of insecure attachment and thus reduce the risk of addiction to SNS.

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