Personality and Social Media Addiction Among College Students

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200225.079How to use a DOI?

Keywords

addiction, personality, social media, big five factor

Abstract

Previous survey indicated the tendency of social media addiction among university students in Bandung. Other research reported that personality dimension had significant effect on social media addiction. This research aimed to provide information about personality and social media addiction among university students in Bandung. This research focused on the correlation between personality type and social media addiction. Quantitative approach was established to provide research data, using statistical Spearman correlation technique. Multistage sample were conducted and gathered 483 university students. The scale used to measure social media addiction were BSMAS (Bergen social Media Addiction Scale) and IPIP-BFM-25 (Big Five Factor) were measured the personality types. The results shown 3 types of personality had significant correlation with the social media addiction tendency. There were neuroticism, extraversion and agreeable types of personality.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Indri Utami Sumaryanti
AU  - Salma Azizah
AU  - Fanni Putri Diantina
AU  - Endah Nawangsih
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/03
TI  - Personality and Social Media Addiction Among College Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 376
EP  - 379
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200225.079
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200225.079
ID  - Sumaryanti2020
ER  -