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Personality Traits and News Addiction: Mediating Role of Self-Control

Author(s) -

Ghulam Ishaq,

Rafia Rafique,

Muhammad Farhan Asif

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of the dow university of health sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2410-2180

pISSN - 1995-2198

DOI - 10.36570/jduhs.2017.2.511

Subject(s) - medicine , big five personality traits , addiction , self control , personality , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , psychology

Background: It is common observations that due to advanced technologies such as mobile phones, internet,social media usage and augmented terrorism, people are persuaded towards news. Similarly, engrossment of a certain individual in any domain from politics, sports, global issues, arson or terrorism can also promote news addiction. Objective: To examine the mediating role of self-control by verifying the role of gender in the dynamic interplay between conscientiousness, neuroticism and news addiction in young and old adults from main cities (Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi khan, Faisalabad, and Sargodha) only data. Co-relational research design was employed. Materials & Methods: Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Self-control and News addiction, were assessed through News Addiction1 , Big Five Inventory2 , and 10 Item Self-Scoring Self-control Scale3. Results: The co-relation matrix revealed that news addiction is negatively co-related with conscientiousness and positively co-related with neuroticism. Independent sample t-test revealed women are higher on neuroticism and conscientiousness where as men are higher score on news addiction. Conscientiousness and neuroticism was significant predictors of news addiction, however they remain significant predictor of news addiction after self-control was entered in the model as a mediator and controlling the gender as a control variable with dependent variable. Model fit indices for structured equation mediation model analysis through AMOS provided empirical support for proposed mediation model. Conclusion: Personality traits and self-control have explained the variance in news addiction suggesting selfcontrol a mediator in relationship of personality traits and news addiction. This study makes important contribution to clinical and counseling psychology by signifying the importance of news addiction i.e. mal-adaptive behavior. Their mal-adaptive behavior can be improved by guiding them about to self-control pertinent to their personality trait.

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