Paper Info
Title
Connecting Personality Traits To Social Networking Site Addiction: The Mediating Role Of Motives
Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether four motives - conformity, enhancement, social and coping - mediate relationships between four personality types - agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness to experience - and social networking site (SNS) addiction. Impulse control is included as a moderator.Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a survey to collect data at two points in time from 304 SNS users. Structural equation modeling was used for data analysis.Findings Empirical results show that conformity, enhancement and coping motives act as mediators between various personality types and SNS addiction. Furthermore, impulse control weakens the effects of two motives - enhancement and social - on SNS addiction.Research limitations/implications The research model included only four motives. Future research could investigate other motivational mechanisms and moderators. The research method surveyed university students in the USA; thus, results may not generalize to a different user population. The method also included only one SNS, Facebook.Originality/value The paper contributes to the literature by showing that motives of SNS use connect personality to SNS addiction. This study also shows that self-reflective factors like impulse control can reduce the positive effects of motives on SNS addiction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1108/ITP-01-2019-0025
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Motives, Big five personality, Social networking site addiction, Behavioural addiction
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0959-3845
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adela Chen100.34
nicholas roberts222.40