Online self-presentation: How temperament can affect one's personal webpage-facebook

Date of Publication

2010

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Thesis Adviser

Maria Andrea S. Tirazona

Defense Panel Member

Anton Simon M. Palo

Abstract/Summary

With the Boom of Online Communities especially the creation of numerous personal webpages, self presentation is now being put in question especially I the online context. Self-Presentation is the conscious or unconscious attempt to control images that are projected in real or imagined situations (Goffman, 19590 and with the actor-audience scenario people would be able to convey messages as an actor and emit attributes that is socially acceptable during a face to face situation, but what is physicality suddenly disappear what then?

The two basic forms of personality (Santrock, 2002) namely introversion and extroversion are on focus on this paper under the theory of temperament. Different studies have shown that both have a distinct relationship among ones online webpage and their action towards them (Lu&Hsiao,2009).

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU14742

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

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