Cyberloafing and personality traits: an investigation among knowledge-workers across the Iranian knowledge-intensive sectors. Issue 12 (2nd December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sheikh, Alireza; Aghaz, Asal; Mohammadi, Maryam
• Is Part Of: Behaviour & information technology. Volume 38:Issue 12(2019)
• Page Start: 1213
• Page End: 1224
• Publication Date: 2019-12-02
• Subjects: Cyberloafing activities -- cyberloafing behaviours -- personality traits -- knowledge-intensive firms; Electronic data processing -- Periodicals; Human engineering -- Periodicals; Information technology -- Periodicals; 303.4833
• DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2019.1580311
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0144-929X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Cyberloafing has received increasing research interest in recent years and from a diversity of research streams. The implications of cyberloafing have proved to be significant, stronger and costly as compared to other less knowledge-based settings. Among other antecedents, the interrelationship of knowledge-workers' personality traits and their inclinations to cyberloaf has not been studied to date. This survey investigates the relationship between the mentioned factors within and across a number of knowledge-intensive professional services firms in Iran. The findings show the significant positive impact of neuroticism, extraversion and openness to experience on both types of cyberloafing (namely activities and behaviours) and the negative impact of agreeableness on only cyberloafing activities.