The relationships between personality and Facebook photographs : a study in Taiwan

Cheng-Liang Yang

The current study aimed to investigate the relationships between Facebook users’ personality traits and Facebook photos categories relating to the users’ daily life events. Five hundred and seventy-five Facebook users participated in this study. The results indicated that Extraversion was the strongest significant predictor for most photo categories. The other four personality traits, i.e. Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Emotional stability, and Agreeableness, were also related to certain photo categories. The current study’s findings expand literature a new field to explore Facebook users’ underlying dispositions and extend current knowledge to a deeper understanding of what kinds of photo being predicted by what dispositions, and provides a new approach to assessment of applicants’ and employees’ personality in addition to self-reported personality tests.

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Year of publication:	2019
Authors:	Yang, Cheng-Liang
Published in:	Cogent business & management. - London : Taylor & Francis, ISSN 2331-1975, ZDB-ID 2837523-3. - Vol. 6.2019, p. 1-17
Subject:	personality \| human resource management \| self-expression \| Facebook photos \| social networks \| room with a cue model (RCM) \| Taiwan \| Social Web \| Social web \| Persönlichkeitspsychologie \| Personality psychology \| Personalmanagement \| Human Resource Management \| Soziales Netzwerk \| Social network

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1080/23311975.2019.1577521 [DOI] hdl:10419/206157 [Handle]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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