الفروق في العوامل الخمس الكبرى للشخصية لمستخدمي شبكات الإعلام الاجتماعي من طلاب و طالبات الجامعة

Abstract EN

The differences in the five major personality factors of University students who use social media networks


The present study aims to identify the differences between the average scores of the personality traits of users of social media networks, and to identify the differences between the average scores of the personality traits according to the gender variable of the users of social media networks.

The study sample consisted of 680 male and female preparatory year students in Saudi universities, in the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year, and for the purposes of the current study, a scale was applied: a list of the five major factors of personality.

The results of the study indicated: that the users of social media networks are above average in the characteristics of extroversion, acceptability, alertness of conscience and openness, while less than the average in the trait of neuroticism, and also showed that the value of (t) for differences in personality traits among users of social media networks was a function of the traits: Acceptability In the direction of males, awakening of conscience towards males, and neuroticism in the direction of females, while the value of (t) test was not a function of extroversion and openness traits.