“I Got the Job!”: An exploratory study examining the psychological factors related to status updates on facebook

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Highlights:

• Personality type helps explain the types of status updates made on Facebook.

• Trait affect also helps explain the types of status updates made on Facebook.

• Facebook behavior varied based on age, gender, and education level.

• Personality type and trait affect varied by age, gender, and education level.

• 14 of 16 hypotheses were supported by at least one of the two statistical techniques.

摘要

•Personality type helps explain the types of status updates made on Facebook.•Trait affect also helps explain the types of status updates made on Facebook.•Facebook behavior varied based on age, gender, and education level.•Personality type and trait affect varied by age, gender, and education level.•14 of 16 hypotheses were supported by at least one of the two statistical techniques.

论文关键词:Facebook status updates,Social networking,Psychological factors,Personality,Trait affect,Security and privacy

论文评审过程:Received 8 August 2016, Revised 3 March 2017, Accepted 6 March 2017, Available online 9 March 2017, Version of Record 22 March 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.03.020