Big Five and Internet Addictions
April 12, 2018 7:06 AM Subscribe
Research shows that people who score high on neuroticism, low on conscientiousness, and low on agreeableness are more likely to become addicted to social media, video games, instant messaging or other online stimuli.
Some of the correlations make sense. Less agreeable people may be more apt to immerse themselves in technology because it does not require the kind of friendly interactions that real life does. Neurotic people have been shown to spend more time online because it validates their desire to belong or be part of a group. Conscientious people are less impulsive and therefore more able to control and organize their time.
But then it gets complicated.
shut UP
posted by ominous_paws at 7:11 AM on April 12, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by ominous_paws at 7:11 AM on April 12, 2018 [6 favorites]
The damn paper. Interesting, but worth noting that the correlations are all kind of low (<0.2).
posted by Lutoslawski at 7:15 AM on April 12, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by Lutoslawski at 7:15 AM on April 12, 2018 [5 favorites]
(I'm going to be late for work low on conscientiousness because I made this post. Please favourite it high on neuroticism.)
Wanting to be favorited could also be high agreeableness.
posted by fraxil at 7:27 AM on April 12, 2018 [1 favorite]
Wanting to be favorited could also be high agreeableness.
posted by fraxil at 7:27 AM on April 12, 2018 [1 favorite]
i'm okay with the CONCEPT of people, but the real thing just wears on me...
posted by Redhush at 7:34 AM on April 12, 2018 [13 favorites]
posted by Redhush at 7:34 AM on April 12, 2018 [13 favorites]
[coughs]
posted by orange swan at 7:40 AM on April 12, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by orange swan at 7:40 AM on April 12, 2018 [1 favorite]
Not mentioned: what happens when your managers are assholes (+neurotic -conscientious -agreeable), who believe everyone should spend tons of time on Facebook, and believe team members who don't, must be hiding something, or just refuse to hire anyone who won't reveal their social media IDs because they "wouldn't fit in with the team."
posted by ErisLordFreedom at 8:01 AM on April 12, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by ErisLordFreedom at 8:01 AM on April 12, 2018 [6 favorites]
Wondering why the HEXACO model hasn't supplanted big five...
posted by amtho at 8:17 AM on April 12, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by amtho at 8:17 AM on April 12, 2018 [1 favorite]
this is my surprised face
posted by some loser at 8:55 AM on April 12, 2018
posted by some loser at 8:55 AM on April 12, 2018
> some loser:
"this is my surprised face"
Scores low on agreeable. Why are you even here?
posted by Samizdata at 12:03 PM on April 12, 2018 [2 favorites]
"this is my surprised face"
Scores low on agreeable. Why are you even here?
posted by Samizdata at 12:03 PM on April 12, 2018 [2 favorites]
Wondering why the HEXACO model hasn't supplanted big five...
HEXACO is new enough that I hadn't heard of it. At first glance it looks like an incremental improvement over Big-5, with a broader and more cross-cultural base of empirical support. Could you say a bit more about your impression of it?
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:04 PM on April 12, 2018
HEXACO is new enough that I hadn't heard of it. At first glance it looks like an incremental improvement over Big-5, with a broader and more cross-cultural base of empirical support. Could you say a bit more about your impression of it?
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:04 PM on April 12, 2018
The damn paper. Interesting, but worth noting that the correlations are all kind of low (<0.2).
Are you talking about Figure 2? The R-squared is .18, not R, so actually the effect is quite sizeable for social psychology.
posted by tickingclock at 2:15 PM on April 12, 2018
Are you talking about Figure 2? The R-squared is .18, not R, so actually the effect is quite sizeable for social psychology.
posted by tickingclock at 2:15 PM on April 12, 2018
Couldn’t “people who score high on neuroticism, low on conscientiousness, and low on agreeableness” also be people who are going through a period of anxiety or depression, and using their phones to cope with that?
I understand that these are supposed to be personally traits and therefore somewhat fixed over time but I’m also positive that I go through phases of being dramatically more or less agreeable and conscientious.
posted by mrmurbles at 3:42 PM on April 12, 2018
I understand that these are supposed to be personally traits and therefore somewhat fixed over time but I’m also positive that I go through phases of being dramatically more or less agreeable and conscientious.
posted by mrmurbles at 3:42 PM on April 12, 2018
I was directed from a comment on today's FPP on the Peterson race-IQ debacle to this article by Cosma Shalizi, who in turn directs us towards this critique of the five-factor personality model.
The upshot: people who actually understand statistics cannot understand why the five factor model (in so far as it makes any causal claims at all) has not been rejected or revised, when it has already failed confirmatory statistical tests.
posted by leibniz at 5:27 PM on April 12, 2018 [5 favorites]
The upshot: people who actually understand statistics cannot understand why the five factor model (in so far as it makes any causal claims at all) has not been rejected or revised, when it has already failed confirmatory statistical tests.
posted by leibniz at 5:27 PM on April 12, 2018 [5 favorites]
I know it's newer, but I'm not sure how new. It does sound credible to me, but I'm not an academic. When I say "wondering why" it's literally true.
posted by amtho at 8:11 PM on April 12, 2018
posted by amtho at 8:11 PM on April 12, 2018
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