RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE DEPENDENCE ON SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS OF HEXACO AND THE DARK TRIAD

The study examined associations of the personality traits with dependence on social media. The sample included students (N = 84) in the humanities aged 19 to 23 (M = 19.85; SD = 0.799). Among them, 89% are women (N = 75) and 11% are men (N = 9). The study was conducted online. Respondents were asked to fill out three questionnaires: the HEXACO-PI-R Questionnaire and the Dark Triad Short Questionnaire, adapted for the Russian population, and the Social Network Dependence Questionnaire. The results of the study allow drawing some conclusions about the differences and similarities between social media dependence and personality traits in Russia and abroad: in the Russian student sample, we did not find significant relationships between social media dependence and psychopathy, as reported by foreign sources; data on the relationship of Internet – addiction with consciousness are similar to foreign ones. According to the results of the study, dependence on social networks is widespread among Russian students in the humanities and has a negative relationship with the indicators of personality traits honesty / modesty, indifference to luxury, unpretentiousness, consciousness and organization of the HEXACO-PI-R Questionnaire and positive – with the total indicator of the Dark Triad.