Smartphone application personality and its relationship to personalities of smartphone users and social capital accrued through use of smartphone social applications. Issue 1 (April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tan, Wee-Kheng; Hsiao, Yung-Jen; Tseng, Shu-Fen; Chan, Chien-Lung
• Is Part Of: Telematics and informatics. Volume 35:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 255
• Page End: 266
• Publication Date: 2018-04
• Subjects: Smartphone application personality -- Smartphone user's personality -- Smartphone social applications -- Social capital; Telecommunication -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Télécommunications -- Périodiques; Réseaux d'ordinateurs -- Périodiques; 384
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2017.11.007
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0736-5853

Abstract

Highlights: Study has identified four dimensions of personalities of smartphone applications. Smartphone application personalities reveal the strong interactive property. Traditional communication application don't add to smartphone application personality. Entertainment application add to all smartphone application personality dimensions. Bonding social capital adds negatively to interactive and attractive personality. Abstract: Few studies have considered the personalities of smartphone applications. This study identifies four underlying smartphone application personality dimensions: interactive and daring, interesting and attractive, open and wide-ranging, and principled and wholesome. The smartphone application personalities reveal the strong interactive property of smartphones. This study also investigates how smartphone users' personalities, smartphone social applications that connect people directly or indirectly, and perceived social capital accrued through smartphone social application usage contribute to smartphone application personality. The analysis shows that the shift from voice calls and SMS to Facebook and instant messaging causes traditional communication applications to play little role in contributing to smartphone application personality. In addition to having hedonic value, entertainment applications should also be viewed as able to contribute to social capital and all of the smartphone application personality dimensions. Although the neuroticism personality of smartphone users plays a lesser role than extraversion in contributing to smartphone social application usage, social capital formation and smartphone application personality, smartphones are useful for individuals high in neuroticism to gain social capital. The inward-looking and exclusiveness properties of bonding social capital cause it to contribute negatively to the interactive and attractive smartphone application personality.