A Study into the Correlation between Narcissism and Facebook Communication Patterns

Josephine Griffith; Colm O'Riordan

doi:10.1109/WI-IAT.2015.27

A Study into the Correlation between Narcissism and Facebook Communication Patterns

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Despite the usage of Facebook data by researchers for various types of personality analyses there has been no investigation into the comment-liking feature of Facebook. Two studies are performed which analyse the link between narcissism and users interactions on Facebook. Firstly, comment-liking activity is measured and this is compared to narcissism scores. Secondly, measures of promotional self-worth derived from the content analysis of users posts are also compared to narcissism scores. The results of the comparisons show that narcissistic behaviour is observable in the tendency of Facebook users to selectively respond to their Facebook friends comments while at the same time indulging in conversations lacking diversity and for the most part focusing on self-promotion.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE WIC ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY (WI-IAT)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	511-514
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467396172
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2015.27
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2015
Event	2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2015 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 6 Dec 2015 → 9 Dec 2015

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Conference	2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2015
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	6/12/15 → 9/12/15

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Younus, A; Qureshi, MA; Griffith, J; O'Riordan, C; Pasi, G.

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Griffith, J & O'Riordan, C 2015, A Study into the Correlation between Narcissism and Facebook Communication Patterns. in 2015 IEEE WIC ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY (WI-IAT). 1, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 511-514, 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2015, Singapore, Singapore, 6/12/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2015.27

A Study into the Correlation between Narcissism and Facebook Communication Patterns. / Griffith, Josephine ; O'Riordan, Colm.
2015 IEEE WIC ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY (WI-IAT). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 511-514 (1).

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