Does personality affect our participation with the open
environment?
Debbie Meakin
H818, Inclusion/Implementation Presentation
Background
• Teaching delivery• Differentiation – Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic and needs• Multiple intelligences
• Reading – book ‘Quiet’ by Susan Cain (2012)
• Self awareness• MBTI
Introduction
• The accessibility of online environments is a general entitlement to being inclusive (TechDis)• Inclusion?• About potential barriers to online access
• What about personality? Is this also about behaviour• ie participation?• Personality has been the subject of studies looking at online interaction• Does personality present barriers?
Personality is organised into 5 dimensions or traits
• The five-factor model (FFM )has five areas known as dimensions and these are, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience.
• These are also known as the ‘Big 5’
• Also can be linked to learning styles (according to Wikipedia) and MBTI
• Stability of this personality testing is agreed by psychologists
‘Big 5’
Other studies
• Shyness and anxiety have been found to have an effect in engaging online, but not in relation to email use or chat rooms (Scealy, Phillips & Stevenson 2002)
• In another study it was found that openness is a positive factor online for entertainment, social relationships and communication while agreeableness has a negative impact on communication (Tsao 2013)
Other studies• When
working online four areas of personality affected behaviour online less than offline (Blumer and Doering, 2012).
A method
• Based on previous work using a questionnaire approach and a test – retest situation for being offline and online
• Move this to a not open/open approach with the questionnaire
• Devising appropriate questions about working in the open environment
• Identifying the sample group(s)
My Results – Big 5 Personality Testwww.outofservice/bigfive/results
My Results – Big 5 Personality Testwww.outofservice/bigfive/results
Other methods
• Self reporting – determination of personality using easily accessed websites
• Using self reporting and compare with responses to open environment working
• Ethnographic approach
• Focus groups
Inclusion and/or Implementation
• Is personality something that can affect inclusion and accessibility to the online environment?
• Is personality something that can affect engagement with openness?
• Knowing the effects of personality in different online and open situations, can approaches to engage people in openness be considered?
Questions please?
References
• McCrea, RR; John O. (1992). “An Introduction to the Five-Factor Model and Its Applications”. Journal of Personality 60 (2): 175-215. • Scealy, M.;Phillips; JG. Stevenson, R. (2002). Shyness and anxiety as
predictors of patterns of internet usage. CyberPsychology & Behaviour 5 (6): 507-515.• TechDis: http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/• Tsao, WC. (2013). Big Five Personality Traits as Predictors of Internet Usage
Categories. International Journal of Management 30 (4): 374-386.• Questionnaire sites: will analyse responses and produce a profile (eg
http://personality-testing.info/tests/BIG5.php; http://www.fetzer.org/sites/default/files/images/stories/pdf/selfmeasures/Personality-BigFiveInventory.pdf).