In this article, we will analyze the use of Facebook from a psychological perspective.
What do I know? It's not that I know anything about it, but
I'd like to introduce you to some of the things I found interesting.
What does the study say?
1,525 German speakers over the age of 18 who had Facebook accounts.
The correlation between the tendency to search for information and personality traits was identified by the Big Five.
Conclusions.
The personality traits that cause people to search for information online are
Men are more likely to be neurotic, while women are more likely to be extroverted.
For women, it is extroversion.This seemed to correlate with the number of friends they had.
And those who preferred to solve problems online were significantly more likely to have a high level of neuroticism.
And those with high neuroticism were also more likely to enter detailed information in their profiles.
Summary
People with high extroversion and high neurotic tendencies may be more likely to be immersed in Facebook.In other words, it may be possible to make a certain degree of personality assessment just by looking at Facebook. In other words, it may be possible to diagnose one's personality to some extent just by looking at Facebook.
Social networking sites can cause problems among friends and colleagues.
But the opposite may also be true.
For example, if you are looking for a highly outgoing person, you might want to look at the number of friends you have, and if you are looking for a person who is sensitive to detail, you might want to look at the profile section.
Incidentally, since the survey in this paper uses a simple test to identify characteristics
I've heard that it's better to assume that the accuracy is about 70%.
It is one thing to look at it this way, and another thing to try to use the opposite.
Kaspar, K. & Müller-Jensen, M. Curr Psychol (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00316-8
