Quid pro quo in Web 2.0. Connecting personality traits and Facebook usage intensity to uncivil commenting intentions in public online discussions
| Autor: | Peter Ohler, Jan-Philipp Stein, Kevin Koban, Valentin Eckhardt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Agreeableness
Dark triad Cyberpsychology 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies 050109 social psychology Boredom Impulsivity Human-Computer Interaction 0508 media and communications Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Openness to experience medicine Sensation seeking 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Big Five personality traits medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Computers in Human Behavior. 79:9-18 |
| ISSN: | 0747-5632 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.015 |
| Popis: | Fueled by tragic incidents worldwide, many studies have investigated dispositional factors that lead to virtual abuse and cyberbullying. In contrast to this, less extreme forms of uncivil online behavior have received only little attention. The current paper strives to overcome this research gap by focusing on uncivil commenting intentions in public Facebook discussions. We presented controversial online comments to a convenient student sample of 256 Facebook users asking them to consider their likely response on several scales ranging from a functional to an uncivil style of reasoning. Users' intended commenting was then linked to several personality traits (Big Five, Dark Triad, sensation seeking, and impulsivity) and their Facebook intensity. Analyses revealed openness, agreeableness, and experience seeking as negative predictors of participants' intention to comment uncivilly, whereas attentional impulsivity, boredom susceptibility as well as intense Facebook use emerged as positive predictors. No connections were found for the Dark Triad. Possible explanations for these effects are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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