Stachl, Clemens and Hilbert, Sven and Au, Jiew-Quay and Buschek, Daniel and De Luca, Alexander and Bischl, Bernd and Hussmann, Heinrich and Buehner, Markus (2017) Personality Traits Predict Smartphone Usage. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, 31 (6). pp. 701-722. ISSN 0890-2070, 1099-0984
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The present study investigates to what degree individual differences can predict frequency and duration of actual behaviour, manifested in mobile application (app) usage on smartphones. In particular, this work focuses on the identification of stable associations between personality on the factor and facet level, fluid intelligence, demography and app usage in 16 distinct categories. A total of 137 subjects (87 women and 50 men), with an average age of 24 (SD=4.72), participated in a 90-min psychometric lab session as well as in a subsequent 60-day data logging study in the field. Our data suggest that personality traits predict mobile application usage in several specific categories such as communication, photography, gaming, transportation and entertainment. Extraversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness are better predictors of mobile application usage than basic demographic variables in several distinct categories. Furthermore, predictive performance is slightly higher for single factorin comparison with facet-level personality scores. Fluid intelligence and demographics additionally show stable associations with categorical app usage. In sum, this study demonstrates how individual differences can be effectively related to actual behaviour and how this can assist in understanding the behavioural underpinnings of personality. Copyright (c) 2017 European Association of Personality Psychology
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | STABILITY SELECTION; SOCIAL-CONSEQUENCES; DAILY-LIFE; COUNT DATA; BEHAVIOR; SELF; PSYCHOLOGY; GENDER; TECHNOLOGY; SCIENCE; Big Five; factor and facets; behaviour; smartphones; app usage |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:19 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2019 12:47 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1879 |
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