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Going Offline: Personality And Its Effects On The Transition Of Online Relationships To The Offline World, Morgan Johnson
Going Offline: Personality And Its Effects On The Transition Of Online Relationships To The Offline World, Morgan Johnson
Honors Program Theses
Because the internet is a relatively new technology, few studies have researched the correlations between online behavior and personality. As such, this study set out to determine if online friendships and personality are related. In this study differences in personality were examined between individuals who have met their online friends face-to-face and those who have not. A survey was distributed online using the Five Factor Model to measure personality. Participants in this study were recruited from an online community called Nerdfighteria. The results found that the facets of the Five Factor Model of personality were largely found not to be …