Personality associations with online vs. offline social capital and well-being variables.

IF 2.7 3区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Miao Chao, Dmitri Rozgonjuk, Jon D Elhai, Haibo Yang, Christian Montag
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Social capital is an important construct in diverse scientific disciplines for understanding health promotion, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In an increasingly digitalized world, social capital can be established and used in both online and offline contexts. Previous research suggests that personality might be relevant to an understanding of individual differences in social capital. For instance, the literature suggests that extraversion is associated with more social capital. Against this background, the present study aimed to revisit social capital research, but with a broader focus on studying all Big Five Personality traits (assessed with the BFI-45) and their association with bonding (similarity-based relationships), bridging (diversity-based relationships) social capital dimensions, and well-being. Insights in social capital variables in offline and online areas were obtained via the Internet Social Capital Scale and well-being was assessed with Diener's Satisfaction with Life scale. In particular, the study aimed to understand if personality-well-being associations would emerge with online/offline social capital being a mediator. The questionnaires were filled in by n = 289 German speaking participants (73 males and 216 females). The results revealed that offline social capital in the form of bridging and bonding played a significant role in mediating the relationship between both agreeableness and extraversion with life satisfaction. Online social capital was not associated with life satisfaction and was only very weakly linked to some Big Five Personality traits. In conclusion, the present study demonstrates that offline social capital is very relevant for well-being, while online social capital shows no association with self-reported well-being levels and seems to be negligible for an understanding of well-being.

人格与线上与线下社会资本和幸福变量的关联。
社会资本是理解健康促进、企业家精神和经济增长的重要科学概念。在日益数字化的世界中,社会资本可以在线上和离线环境中建立和使用。先前的研究表明,人格可能与理解社会资本的个体差异有关。例如,文献表明外向性与更多的社会资本有关。在此背景下,本研究旨在重新审视社会资本研究,但更广泛地关注于研究所有五大人格特征(用BFI-45评估)及其与结合(基于相似性的关系)、桥接(基于多样性的关系)社会资本维度和幸福感的关系。通过互联网社会资本量表获得线下和线上社会资本变量的见解,并通过Diener生活满意度量表评估幸福感。特别是,该研究旨在了解人格-幸福感是否会在线上/线下社会资本作为中介的情况下出现。问卷由289名说德语的参与者(73名男性,216名女性)填写。结果表明,线下社会资本在亲和性和外向性对生活满意度的影响中起着重要的中介作用。网络社会资本与生活满意度没有关联,与五大人格特征的关联非常微弱。总之,本研究表明,线下社会资本与幸福感非常相关,而在线社会资本与自我报告的幸福感水平没有关联,对于理解幸福感似乎可以忽略不计。
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BMC Psychology
BMC Psychology Psychology-Psychology (all)
CiteScore
3.90
自引率
2.80%
发文量
265
审稿时长
24 weeks
期刊介绍: BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, health and social psychology, as well as personality and individual differences. The journal welcomes quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies.
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