Personality and Social Media

11 January 2018

An online questionnaire based study investigating potential relationships between personality traits alongside social media usage and the development of depressive symptoms. The purpose of this study is to examine how individual differences in personality traits and social media usage impact upon people and their mood.

Keywords

• Brunel University
• psychology
• social media
• social networking
• london
• questionnaire
• online questionnaire
• mood
• depression
• personality
• relationships

Ethical approval

Ethical approval has been received from the College of Health and Life Sciences Research Ethics Committee on January 2nd 2018, which has granted ethics approval. Brunel University is committed to compliance with the Universities UK Research Integrity Concordat.

About the researcher

Undergraduate Psychology student at Brunel University, interested in the so far unknown impact social media has on the human mind

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