University Of New York : Study And Personality Impressions

In “Impression Management in a Networked Setting”, the reading focuses on how people and mainly adolescents project a type of fade on social media sites. The author states how many young people today are sad, but when on Facebook only take happy looking selfies and hide their true feelings, so they can get more likes from friends. And even how your social media profile page can make a good, or bad impression for a future employer; forcing teens to be more warry about what pictures, videos and reshares that are on their profile page. In the book, it goes into the scenario that teenagers

The biggest influence of personality are childhood experiences and the way in which parents choose to raise their kids. The shift in parenting styles contributes to the growing levels of narcissistic attitudes presented in the youngest generation. Because of the shift in values, the media evolved to highlight vain celebrities instead of focusing on the successes of brilliant, hard-working people. Social media takes away the emotional involvement in relationships and replaces those feelings with shallow gratification that causes people to grow an unhealthy attachment to the social network. Nothing can replace the convenience of social media, but if society changes the way it views online relationships then the focus will shift from having online relationships to improving interpersonal communication. Narcissism is a problem that can be fixed with healthy role-models and a positive, unselfish outlook that starts with how parents treat their children’s successes and

Social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) offers infinite connections and the ability to express oneself to the world. But are these connections and images of self-based upon fact or fiction? Through selective self-presentation, people often present the “ideal self” instead of the “actual self” in the online environment to achieve the feeling of positive self-esteem. In “The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, Therefore I Am”, Peggy Orenstein writes of how her Twitter posts reflected an idealized version of her life. Two studies support the hypothesis that such editing can have a positive effect on personal self-esteem. “Mirror, Mirror on my Facebook Wall: Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem” by Amy Gonzales presents a study demonstrating

I found the test results of the Big Five personality assessment to be an interesting and very accurate description of myself. After completing this assessment, I was able to analyze my personality in depth. I found this information to be helpful knowledge and provide insight about myself, as well as being crucial in examining my personality traits. The big five is also referred to the OCEAN model of personality, and stands for the main traits used to describe personalities. This acronym stands for openness to experience/intellect, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. After taking the test I was then given percentile scores that allowed me to compare myself with other people who have taken the test online as well, therefore making it a more meaningful comparison.

The article “Examining Students’ Intended Image on Facebook: ‘What Were They Thinking?!’” by Joy Peluchette and Katherinne Karl focuses on their research on the reasoning behind the inappropriate Facebook posts of college students. After their research they conclude that the posts of students completely depends on the specific way the student wants to illustrate themselves to their intended audience. Peluchette and Karl strengthen their argument with frequent use of various statistics and transition words; however, they weaken their argument with choosing a topic that can not be fully prove and the lack of in-depth thinking.

The last section in chapter two of Freakonomics, written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, attempts to answer the following questions; “How forthright (and honest) are people when it comes to sharing their personal information,” and “what kind of information in personal ads is considered the most (and least) desirable” (74)? Throughout this section the authors provide statistical data from an online dating site, which encompassed more than 20,000 users. This data showed that not only are Americans untruthful when it comes to creating their online personal ad, but that they lie to increase their likability. These lies include wealth, height, weight, looks, and race preferences. As well as the lies, there are many people who post pictures of a better looking person or make their own photo more desirable, and then there are those who don’t post a photo at all.

2. “the social impact of having people base their impressions of others solely off what they see online on social

Mehdizadeh sets up a group of 18 to 25 years old university students hypothesizing that those “with high narcissism scores can be correlated with a greater amount of Facebook activity… use more self-promoting content.” She also hypothesizes that males will use “descriptive self-promotion”, females will

I have taken personality assessments in college and truly had not spent as much time as this analyzing, confirming and questioning the results. The global personality inventory told me I see patterns faster than others and I need to slow down and ensure others keep up. Just last week I was telling my Sr Director that we only have 3-6 months of work planned and we should create a 2 year roadmap. She said, “What if our plans change?” I replied, “That’s okay, at least we have a foundational plan to work from.” I remember from Org Behavior class that when we wait for others to make decisions for us, we lose power. My leader is waiting for direction on what we should do next. We have to tell our Sponsor, the President, what we should do and why. I also learned I like to take charge and influence. I’m interpersonal and read others well, and ensure to pay attention to others’ needs. Some of my areas needing improvement are my need for micromanaging and believing in wrong and right. My problem area is that my expectations of others are too high. I have had a leader in the past that told me this. I led upward a lot during that relationship and many times, he let me down. He said my expectations of him were unrealistic. We had to lay ground rules for our working relationship on how he would lead me best. I didn’t need direction. I was able to create my own work and take him along with me on my plan. I tend to lean too much towards black and white, and don’t leave much room for gray,

There are two possible ways that the use of social networking sites can affect a person’s self esteem. According to a study conducted by Amy L. Gonzales and Jeffrey T. Hancock, Facebook helps amplify students’ level of self-esteem. They explained in their study that when people post something on their profile, they have the opportunity to filter the negative information that they would not like to be exposed, and only publicize the information that they consider as positive. By doing this, people can build an ideal image of themselves online, which consequently increase the level of their self-esteem (Gonzales and Hancock, 2011). On the other hand, the study conducted by The University of Gothenburg in Sweden, which

There has been a rapid increase in the development of web based psychological self-help sites over the past decade. Many of these sites offer test and measures focusing on various aspect of personality and psychological functioning. The tests on the websites use self-report data to obtain information. While self-report data is easily obtained and is considered a reliable source of information in most circumstances, it is not without its limitations. This paper will examine the limitations of self-report data

The Big Five personality test was created in the 1970 's by two independent research teams. One team with Paul Costa and Robert McCrae, and the other with Warren and Lewis Goldberg. The two teams had different methods that they tested but in the end they both ended up with the same results. The results were that no matter what culture, race, or language people have their personality fits into five dimensions of personality. The five dimensions were created after reviewing lots of surveys and data analysis called factor analysis. Now, just forty years later the Big Five is one of the most commonly accepted personality models.

Throughout the years, numerous of researches are conducted to see the connections between social media (namely, Facebook) and narcissism. University of Michigan conducted a research to find the relationship between social media and narcissism. For the first part of the study, the researchers recruited approximately around 486 college undergraduate students with the median age of 19. Meanwhile, 93 adults, mostly white females, with an age mean of 35 years old, were asked by the researchers to complete an online survey for the second part of the study. Participants have to answer questions about their social media use and a personality assessment to measure their level of narcissism (Swanbrow, 2013). Based on the results obtained, Facebook users that scores higher on the personality test tend to have more friends, tag themselves more often in photos posted and update their status more often (Firestone, 2012,

Recent research has documented how technology, and social networking sites (SNS; e.g., Facebook, Instagram) in particular, have given rise to a growing obsession with impression management and self-presentation online. Whether it’s searching for the perfect Instagram photo filter or carefully crafting a humblebrag Facebook status about a recent publication, users frequently engage in selective self-presentation strategies to portray an ‘ideal self’ through social media (Chou & Edge, 2012; Manago, Graham, Greenfield, & Salimkhan, 2008). In turn, we seek out social approval and positive feedback in the form of comments and likes.

Relation with Big-Five Personality Factors and Addictiveness
 The Big- Five framework is a model of personality that contains five factors showing personality traits at a level: extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experiences, agreeableness, and conscientiousness (Correa, Hinsley, Zúñiga 2010). Extraversion is positively related to time spent on Facebook, people higher in agreeableness did make a greater number of postings about themselves than did less agreeable people, and more conscientious people would be less likely to use Facebook (Moore, Mcelroy 2012). Based on previous articles, the following hypotheses are proposed:
 Hypothesis 1: People who are more extraverted will more likely be addicted to SNS.
 Null : The result of people who are more extraverted will same or no relationship with the result of who are less extraverted.
 Alternative : People who are more extraverted will less likely be addicted to SNS.
 Hypothesis 2 : People who are more neuroticism will use social media more frequently. 
 Null : The result of people who are more neuroticism will same or no relationship with the result of who are less neuroticism.
 Alternative : People who are more neuroticism will use social media less.
 Hypothesis 3 : People who are more open to experiences will use social media more frequently. 
 Null : The result of people who are more open to experiences will same or no