The Relationship between Five Main Factors of Personality and Addiction to SMS in High School Students

摘要

Today, mobile phones compared with computers and Internet technology, have a greater impact on social life, people's lifestyle and their consumer behavior, because mobile phones are cheap and easy to use. This paper aims to examine the relationship between 5 main personality factors, neuroticism, extroversion and addiction of students to SMS. The statistical population consisted of all high school students studying in the academic year (2011-2012) which totally are 7520 people of which 364 students were selected as study samples using random sampling method. Research tools include questionnaire for addiction to text messaging and NEO-FFI questionnaire for 5 main personality factors. Pearson correlation coefficient and t-test were used for data analysis. Data analysis results showed that neuroticism and addiction to text messaging are positively related and it has a significant negative correlation with extraversion. Other findings indicate that there is no significant difference between male and female students in terms of addiction to SMS and personality characteristics. Results show the importance of the personality characteristics in predictions of SMS addiction.