Title
Predicting User Personality With Social Interactions In Weibo
Abstract
Purpose The purposes of this paper are to (1) explore how personality traits pertaining to the dominance influence steadiness compliance model manifest themselves in terms of user interaction behavior on social media and (2) examine whether social interaction data on social media platforms can predict user personality. Design/methodology/approach Social interaction data was collected from 198 users of Sina Weibo, a popular social media platform in China. Their personality traits were also measured via questionnaire. Machine learning techniques were applied to predict the personality traits based on the social interaction data. Findings The results demonstrated that the proposed classifiers had high prediction accuracy, indicating that our approach is reliable and can be used with social interaction data on social media platforms to predict user personality. "Reposting," "being reposted," "commenting" and "being commented on" were found to be the key interaction features that reflected Weibo users' personalities, whereas "liking" was not found to be a key feature. Originality/value The findings of this study are expected to enrich personality prediction research based on social media data and to provide insights into the potential of employing social media data for the purpose of personality prediction in the context of the Weibo social media platform in China.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1108/AJIM-02-2021-0048
ASLIB JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Social interaction, Personality, DISC, Social media, Weibo
Journal
73
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
2050-3806
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuting Jiang111.06
Shengli Deng2449.97
Hongxiu Li300.34
Yong Liu401.35