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Facebook use and its relationship with personality traits, self-esteem, and internet self-efficacy among college students
| dc.contributor.advisor | Caska, Barbara | en |
| dc.contributor.author | O'Hanlon, Laura | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-25T09:58:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-25T09:58:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | O’Hanlon, L (2014). Facebook use and its relationship with personality traits, self-esteem, and internet self-efficacy among college students. Bachelors Final Year Project, Dublin Business School. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10788/2149 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Social networking sites like Facebook are used by thousands of people every day. This study explores Facebook intensity and its relationship with personality traits, self-esteem, and internet self-efficacy. Data was used from a sample of 80 undergraduate students (38 male, 42 female) between the ages of eighteen and twenty six. A negative significant relationship was established between Facebook intensity and self-esteem. Results also indicated that Facebook intensity had a positive significant relationship with personality traits. In addition, when the five personality traits were tested in a separate test, without self-esteem and self-efficacy, no correlation was found. Lastly, no relationship was found between internet self-efficacy and Facebook intensity. These results highlight the role self-esteem, personality traits, and internet self-efficacy has on Facebook usage. This research extends previous research by indicating that there was no relationship between internet self-efficacy and Facebook intensity as prior research fails to demonstrate this. Suggestions for limitations and further directions were discussed. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Dublin Business School | en |
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| dc.subject | Psychology | en |
| dc.subject | Digital media | en |
| dc.subject | Developmental psychology | en |
| dc.title | Facebook use and its relationship with personality traits, self-esteem, and internet self-efficacy among college students | en |
| dc.type | Final Year Project | en |
| dc.rights.holder | Copyright: The author | en |
| dc.type.degreename | BA (Hons) in Psychology | en |
| dc.type.degreelevel | BA (Hons) | en |