Do personality characteristics explain the associations between self-esteem and online social networking behaviour?

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Highlights:

• Self-esteem differently correlated with various online social network indicators.

• Extraversion eliminated the link between self-esteem and users' popularity.

• Impersonal avatars were the only self-validation indicator related to self-esteem.

• Personality characteristics didn't eliminate this relationship.

• Attitudes toward traits incrementally contributed to variation of several indicators.

摘要

•Self-esteem differently correlated with various online social network indicators.•Extraversion eliminated the link between self-esteem and users' popularity.•Impersonal avatars were the only self-validation indicator related to self-esteem.•Personality characteristics didn't eliminate this relationship.•Attitudes toward traits incrementally contributed to variation of several indicators.

论文关键词:Self-esteem,Personality traits,Attitudes toward traits,Online social network

论文评审过程:Received 25 May 2018, Revised 23 August 2018, Accepted 16 September 2018, Available online 19 September 2018, Version of Record 24 September 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.09.017