To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage
This paper investigates how students’ personality types influence their academic performance and how Facebook usage intervenes these associations. A survey questionnaire method was adopted to collect data from students in five public universities in Malaysia. An analysis of 1165 questionnaires shows...
Saved in:
Main Authors: | , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Published: |
Elsevier
2017
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/17568/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.012 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
my.um.eprints.17568 |
---|---|
record_format |
eprints |
spelling |
my.um.eprints.175682017-07-24T08:31:02Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/17568/ To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage Naqshbandi, M.M. Ainin, S. Jaafar, N.I. Mohd Shuib, N.L. QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science This paper investigates how students’ personality types influence their academic performance and how Facebook usage intervenes these associations. A survey questionnaire method was adopted to collect data from students in five public universities in Malaysia. An analysis of 1165 questionnaires shows that all five dimensions of personality from big five model predict academic performance. In addition, shyness also predicted academic performance positively while a negative relationship was found between loneliness and students’ academic performance. The mediating role of Facebook usage was established only in the relationships of academic performance with extraversion, agreeableness and loneliness. A discussion of these findings, limitations of the study and future research directions are provided. Elsevier 2017 Article PeerReviewed Naqshbandi, M.M. and Ainin, S. and Jaafar, N.I. and Mohd Shuib, N.L. (2017) To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage. Computers in Human Behavior, 75. pp. 167-176. ISSN 0747-5632 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.012 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.012 |
institution |
Universiti Malaya |
building |
UM Library |
collection |
Institutional Repository |
continent |
Asia |
country |
Malaysia |
content_provider |
Universiti Malaya |
content_source |
UM Research Repository |
url_provider |
http://eprints.um.edu.my/ |
topic |
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
spellingShingle |
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Naqshbandi, M.M. Ainin, S. Jaafar, N.I. Mohd Shuib, N.L. To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage |
description |
This paper investigates how students’ personality types influence their academic performance and how Facebook usage intervenes these associations. A survey questionnaire method was adopted to collect data from students in five public universities in Malaysia. An analysis of 1165 questionnaires shows that all five dimensions of personality from big five model predict academic performance. In addition, shyness also predicted academic performance positively while a negative relationship was found between loneliness and students’ academic performance. The mediating role of Facebook usage was established only in the relationships of academic performance with extraversion, agreeableness and loneliness. A discussion of these findings, limitations of the study and future research directions are provided. |
format |
Article |
author |
Naqshbandi, M.M. Ainin, S. Jaafar, N.I. Mohd Shuib, N.L. |
author_facet |
Naqshbandi, M.M. Ainin, S. Jaafar, N.I. Mohd Shuib, N.L. |
author_sort |
Naqshbandi, M.M. |
title |
To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage |
title_short |
To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage |
title_full |
To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage |
title_fullStr |
To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage |
title_full_unstemmed |
To Facebook or to Face Book? An investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of Facebook usage |
title_sort |
to facebook or to face book? an investigation of how academic performance of different personalities is affected through the intervention of facebook usage |
publisher |
Elsevier |
publishDate |
2017 |
url |
http://eprints.um.edu.my/17568/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.012 |
_version_ |
1643690455246831616 |
score |
13.18916 |