Relationships among personality traits, Facebook usages, and leisure activities - A case of Taiwanese college students

With 1.11 billion active users worldwide, Facebook usages may have some impacts on our social lives. The purpose of this research is to investigate possible relationships among personality traits, Facebook usages, and leisure activities. Three hypotheses were proposed: users with different personality traits may have different Facebook usages, users with different personality traits may have different leisure activities, and users with different Facebook usages may have different leisure activities. A questionnaire with 30 items was developed and the convenient sampling technique was used to collect data from 500 college students in Taiwan. Statistics methods such as descriptive statistics, independent t tests, ANOVA were used to analyze the data with a statistical significance of p < .05. The hypotheses were partially supported. Participants with high extraversion, low agreeableness and high openness tended to spend more times on Facebook and have more number of friends and photos. The findings confirmed that high extraversion and high openness people liked to socialize on Facebook (more time, more friends, more photos) also liked to socialize in real life (more time on team sports and recreational activities), but low agreeableness and low emotional stability people liked to use Facebook for socializing in lieu of real life socializing.