Dark traits, social motives, and apps used: A life history approach

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112940

Lennart Freyth , Isabella Sigurdardottir , Peter K. Jonason

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Abstract

We studied how dark personality traits and social motives are associated with the number of community and dating apps used (N = 411). By adopting a multiple app use approach, we expanded knowledge on social media behavior through the lens of life history theory. Narcissism was associated with more community and dating apps used in men and women, in men Machiavellianism was associated with more community apps used, psychopathy in women with more dating apps used, and men high in sadism used more of both app types, with stronger effects than in women. Sadism also emerged as distinct from psychopathy. Fast life history related motives were associated with more dating apps used in men, though men seeking friendships on dating apps exhibited slow life strategies. Women motivated by partner-seeking used both community and dating apps, reflecting a cautious approach to online platform engagement, except for those high in psychopathy. Our results highlight multilayered, sex-specific patterns of personality-related behavior across app types.

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黑暗特质、社会动机和使用的应用程序：生活史方法

我们研究了黑暗人格特质和社交动机如何与所使用的社区和约会应用程序数量相关联（N = 411）。通过采用多种应用程序使用方法，我们从生活史理论的角度扩展了对社交媒体行为的认识。自恋与男性和女性使用更多的社区和约会应用程序有关，马基雅维利主义与男性使用更多的社区应用程序有关，心理变态与女性使用更多的约会应用程序有关，虐待狂程度高的男性使用更多的两种类型的应用程序，其影响比女性更大。虐待狂也有别于心理变态。与快速生活史相关的动机与男性使用更多的约会应用程序有关，尽管在约会应用程序上寻求友谊的男性表现出缓慢的生活策略。以寻找伴侣为动机的女性同时使用社区和交友应用程序，这反映出她们对网络平台的参与采取了谨慎的态度，但心理变态程度较高的女性除外。我们的研究结果凸显了不同类型应用程序中与个性相关行为的多层次、性别特异性模式。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

8.50

自引率

4.70%

发文量

577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.