The Correlation Between the Big-Five Personality and Internet Addiction Among Early-Adult Individuals
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.226How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Internet Addiction, Big-Five Personality, Early-Adult, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness, Intellect, Emotional Stability, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness
- Abstract
The internet, which makes it easier for humans to do activities, can have a negative impact. One of these negative effects is internet addiction. Internet addiction cases in Indonesia continue to increase along with the large number of internet usage. Internet addiction is uncontrolled use of the internet and causes annoying negative things. Several studies have shown that internet addiction is associated with the big five personality factor. It was found that the inconsistency of the research results on the big five personality dimensions. This study involved 69 individuals of early adulthood (aged 18 - 32 years ). Research measurement tools Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and Big Five Model – International Personality Item Pool – 25 (BFM-IPIP-25). Data analysis techniques for testing hypotheses using Pearson correlation. The findings showed a correlation significant between internet addiction premises dimensions agreeableness and emotional stability that is negative. Meanwhile, there is no correlation in the dimensions of extraversion, conscientiousness and intellect. The result is low emotional stability such as someone who has irritable behavior, stress and mood change have the value of a high internet addiction. Thus, low agreebleness, such as someone who behaves evil, cruelly and harms others, will have a high internet-addiction value.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Reinaldi Sugiarta AU - Fransisca Iriani R. Dewi PY - 2021 DA - 2021/08/08 TI - The Correlation Between the Big-Five Personality and Internet Addiction Among Early-Adult Individuals BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1437 EP - 1443 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.226 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.226 ID - Sugiarta2021 ER -