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Identifier	Thesis 1597
Author	Pettepit, Elyssa G
Title	Television and internet dependence and the big five personality factors / Elyssa G. Pettepit
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2000
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The present study examined whether relationships between media dependency and personality traits exist. Concerns expressed in the past literature on addiction were found in the areas of personality predispositions, social relationship difficulties, and clinical problems. This literature suggested that certain personality types may be prone to addiction. Because there is a growing concern about media use, research on the personality patterns among people who fit the criteria for media dependence was needed. My study sampled 247 Central Connecticut State University students. I utilized five instruments with questions that focused on internet addiction, television addiction, drug/alcohol use, personality traits, and demographics. The Internet Addiction Test was devised by Young (1998) to examine internet addiction; The TV Addiction scale was used by Anderson & Collins (1996) to study television addiction; Questions that focused on alcohol and drug use derived from the Psychiatric Diagnostic Interview-Revised (PDI-R) Administration Book (Othmer, Penick, Powell, Read and Othmer, 1989). The NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992) was used to measure personality traits; and demographic data were collected. Results indicated: 1) significant relationships between TV addiction and the personality scales measuring neuroticism, agreeableness and extroversion; 2) a significant relationship between internet addiction and neuroticism and marginally between internet addiction and agreeableness; and, 3) significant relationships between combined media addiction (those reporting both TV and internet addiction), neuroticism, and agreeableness. In all cases, addiction was positively predicted by neuroticism and negatively predicted by agreeableness. This suggests that people who are addicted to media share common traits. That is, they are more likely to be impulsive and experience psychological distress while also exhibiting less trust and dependability. According to Costa & McCrae (1992), individuals scoring high on the neuroticism domain tend to be impulsive, have irrational ideas, and are less able to cope with stress. Individuals scoring low on the agreeableness domain tend to be egocentric, skeptical, and competitive (Costa & McCrae, 1992). Overall, men reported significantly greater television use, greater total media use and greater addiction to television than women. There were no significant differences by gender with respect to internet use or internet addiction. There was no significant relationship between gender and media addiction categories. In addition, in absolute terms men and women reported using the internet most frequently for the same reasons, namely for e-mail and for research. However, results also demonstrated that men reported using the internet to a greater degree than women for pornography and for shopping; women reported using the internet to a greater degree than men for e-mail; there were no significant differences by gender for using the internet for research, chat lines, or “cyber-flings”.
Subject	Internet users -- Psychology Television -- Dependency (Psychology) Personality
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Waite, Bradley W.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	45277777
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