Why People Don’t Use Facebook Anymore: An Investigation Into the Relationship Between the Big Five Personality Traits and the Motivation to Leave Facebook

Authors

Seoyeon Celine Hong, Rowan UniversityFollow
Sookwang Klive Oh, Pepperdine University

Document Type

Article

Version Deposited

Published Version

Open Access Funding Source

Open Access Publishing Fund

Publication Date

7-10-2020

Publication Title

Frontiers in Psychology

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01497

Abstract

This study linked the big five personality traits with motivational factors to leave Facebook based on a survey of 218 former Facebook users. The big five were related with eight main factors retrieved from existing literature. Results showed that neuroticism was positively related to addiction, banality, peer pressure, and privacy while conscientiousness was negatively related to peer pressure, addiction, annoyance, and emergence of new platforms. Openness was positively related with banality but negatively with addiction and peer pressure. Theoretical and practical interpretations are also discussed.

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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). .

Open Access publishing of this article was made possible by the Rowan University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.

Recommended Citation

S. Hong & S. K. Oh. (2020). Why People Don’t Use Facebook Anymore: An Investigation Into the Relationship Between the Big Five Personality Traits and the Motivation to Leave Facebook Frontiers in Psychology 11:1497, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01497.

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