Origins of media exposure - Linking personality traits to TV, radio, print, and film use

Journal/Book: Commun Res. 1997; 24: 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Sage Publications Inc. 507-529.

Abstract: This investigation of the five-factor model of personality as a correlate of mass media use was designed to validate key links in a basic model of the uses and gratifications paradigm. Survey data collected from 219 university students who kept diaries of time spent using the mass media and participating in nonmediated communication activities were submitted to canonical correlation analysis. Minutes devoted to TV viewing, radio listening, pleasure reading, and movie attendance were correlated with the five personality traits of the NEO-PI-neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness The strongest relationships for mass media use were between openness and pleasure reading, extroversion and negative pleasure reading, and openness and negative TV viewing Individuals who scored higher on. Extroversion and agreeableness exhibited a preference for nonmediated activities, especially conversation.

Note: Article Finn S, Robert Morris Coll, Sch Commun & Informat Syst, Dept Commun, 881 Narrows Run Rd, Moon Township,PA 15108 USA

Keyword(s): MASS-MEDIA; TELEVISION ADDICTION; DEPENDENCY MODEL; 5-FACTOR MODEL; COMMUNICATION; LONELINESS; PREFERENCES; PERFORMANCE; EXTROVERTS; INTROVERTS

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