Personality, Social Anxiety and Excessive Use of Facebook

摘要

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relation between Personality, Social anxiety and excessive use of Facebook. The research method is a quantitative approach, by using a questionnaire 150 participants were used, 75 females and 75 males between ages 17 to 27 was approached. Instruments included demographic and related to facebook use questionnaire, International Personality Item Pool (Goldberg, 2002) and Social Avoidant and Distress Scale (Watson, 1969). Pearson’s- Product Moment correlation was used to analyze the relation between personality, social anxiety and use of facebook and T- test independent was used to analysis gender differences. The results indicated that the both gender male and female use facebook equally, and no significance difference was found with high level of social anxiety. Whereas, no significant difference was found between how often participant log in to facebook with social anxiety. On other hand result as shows no significance difference between Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Openness & Consciousness with social anxiety, where as extroversion is negatively correlated with social anxiety. However, there is no significant relationship between how often participant log into facebook with Extroversion, Neuroticism, Openness, Consciousness and Agreeableness. In conclusion, the findings shows that personality traits and social anxiety didn’t linked with excessive use of facebook.