Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Personality Traits on Different Categories of Mobile App Adoption
Received date: 2017-07-11
Accepted date: 2017-08-24
Online published: 2025-04-28
[Purpose/Significance] This research attempts to investigate the impact of personality traits on the adoption and time spending of mobile photography apps, mobile game apps, mobile shopping apps and mobile video apps. [Method/Process] 520 valid samples were collected by questionnaires and further analyzed by using the variance analysis and correlation analysis. [Result/Conclusion] The result shows that agreeableness is positively associated with the adoption of mobile photography apps; conscientiousness is negatively associated with the adoption of mobile game apps; extraversion is positively associated with the adoption of mobile shopping apps, mobile video apps and mobile photography apps; neuroticism has negative association with mobile shopping apps, mobile video apps; agreeableness has positive association with time spending on mobile video apps; conscientiousness has negative association with time spending on mobile game apps; extraversion is positively associated with time spending on mobile video apps, mobile photography apps; neuroticism has negative association with time spending on mobile video apps.
Key words: personality trait; the big five model; mobile application; user adoption
Gan Chunmei , Zhang Chunfu , Liang Xubin . Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Personality Traits on Different Categories of Mobile App Adoption[J]. Knowledge Management Forum, 2017 , 2(6) : 457 -463 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.2095-5472.2017.049
表1 有效样本的人口统计学特征 |
| 基本信息 | 题项 | 频率 | 百分比(%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 性别 | 男 | 231 | 44.4 |
| 女 | 289 | 55.6 | |
| 年龄 | 小于18岁 | 11 | 2.1 |
| 18-22 | 436 | 83.8 | |
| 23-25 | 63 | 12.1 | |
| 26-28 | 6 | 1.2 | |
| 28岁及以上 | 4 | 0.8 | |
| 学科 | 文科 | 244 | 46.9 |
| 理科 | 107 | 20.6 | |
| 工科 | 105 | 20.2 | |
| 医科 | 64 | 12.3 | |
| 教育背景 | 专科 | 26 | 5.0 |
| 本科 | 465 | 89.4 | |
| 硕士 | 25 | 4.8 | |
| 博士及以上 | 4 | 0.8 |
表2 描述统计和Cronbach's Alpha系数 |
| 人格特质 | 均值 | 标准差 | Cronbach's a |
|---|---|---|---|
| 外倾性(E) | 3.16 | 0.610 | 0.780 |
| 宜人性(A) | 3.66 | 0.473 | 0.681 |
| 尽责性(C) | 3.22 | 0.556 | 0.779 |
| 神经质(N) | 3.00 | 0.575 | 0.723 |
| 经验开放性(O) | 3.40 | 0.522 | 0.777 |
表3 人格特质与APP采纳 |
| APP类别 | 人格特质 | 采纳者 | 不采纳者 | F | P | 结果 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 频数 | 均值(标准差) | 频数 | 均值(标准差) | |||||
| 视频类 | 宜人性(A) | 429 | 3.68(0.47) | 91 | 3.58(0.48) | 3.533 | 0.061 | 不成立 |
| 尽责性(C) | 429 | 3.24(0.53) | 91 | 3.17(0.65) | 0.934 | 0.334 | 不成立 | |
| 外倾性(E) | 429 | 3.20(0.60) | 91 | 2.96(0.62) | 11.712 | 0.001(**) | 成立 | |
| 神经质(N) | 429 | 2.97(0.56) | 91 | 3.14(0.65) | 6.377 | 0.012(*) | 成立 | |
| 经验开放性(O) | 429 | 3.39(0.52) | 91 | 3.45(0.51) | 0.920 | 0.338 | 不成立 | |
| 拍摄美化类 | 宜人性(A) | 228 | 3.71(0.48) | 292 | 3.62(0.47) | 4.211 | 0.041(*) | 成立 |
| 尽责性(C) | 228 | 3.23(0.59) | 292 | 3.22(0.51) | 0.073 | 0.788 | 不成立 | |
| 外倾性(E) | 228 | 3.26(0.57) | 292 | 3.08(0.63) | 10.977 | 0.001(**) | 成立 | |
| 神经质(N) | 228 | 3.01(0.54) | 292 | 2.99(0.60) | 0.083 | 0.774 | 不成立 | |
| 经验开放性(O) | 228 | 3.39(0.52) | 292 | 3.40(0.52) | 0.032 | 0.858 | 不成立 | |
| 购物类 | 宜人性(A) | 434 | 3.68(0.46) | 86 | 3.58(0.53) | 3.278 | 0.071 | 不成立 |
| 尽责性(C) | 434 | 3.22(0.53) | 86 | 3.24(0.63) | 0.049 | 0.825 | 不成立 | |
| 外倾性(E) | 434 | 3.19(0.60) | 86 | 3.01(0.63) | 6.122 | 0.014(*) | 成立 | |
| 神经质(N) | 434 | 2.97(0.57) | 86 | 3.15(0.59) | 7.106 | 0.008(**) | 成立 | |
| 经验开放性(O) | 434 | 3.40(0.52) | 86 | 3.39(0.55) | 0.165 | 0.684 | 不成立 | |
| 游戏类 | 宜人性(A) | 264 | 3.66(0.48) | 256 | 3.66(0.47) | 0.005 | 0.943 | 不成立 |
| 尽责性(C) | 264 | 3.15(0.54) | 256 | 3.30(0.56) | 10.511 | 0.001(**) | 成立 | |
| 外倾性(E) | 264 | 3.16(0.62) | 256 | 3.16(0.59) | 0.001 | 0.974 | 不成立 | |
| 神经质(N) | 264 | 3.02(0.56) | 256 | 2.98(0.58) | 0.606 | 0.437 | 不成立 | |
| 经验开放性(O) | 264 | 3.38(0.52) | 256 | 3.42(0.53) | 0.695 | 0.405 | 不成立 | |
表4 人格特质与APP使用时间的相关性分析 |
| 人格特质 | 宜人性(A) | 尽责性(C) | 外倾性(E) | 神经质(N) | 经验开放性(O) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 视频类APP | 0.112* | 0.019 | 0.120** | -0.113* | -0.016 |
| 拍摄美化类APP | 0.076 | -0.010 | 0.164** | 0.004 | 0.034 |
| 购物类APP | 0.036 | -0.059 | 0.077 | -0.033 | -0.027 |
| 游戏类APP | -0.034 | -0.157** | -0.004 | 0.016 | -0.050 |
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