10.4225/03/599e5970a4192 Soon Lee Soon Lee Psychosocial Predictors of Students’ Use of Social Networking Sites: The Role of Culture, Self-Construals, Psychological Well-Being and Personality Monash University 2017 Social networking sites Cross-cultural comparisons Self-construals Psychological well-being Depression OCD Obsessive-compulsive disorder Personality the Big Five personality the Dark Triad Personality, Abilities and Assessment Social and Community Psychology Clinical Psychology Psychology not elsewhere classified 2017-08-24 04:43:26 Thesis https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Psychosocial_Predictors_of_Students_Use_of_Social_Networking_Sites_The_Role_of_Culture_Self-Construals_Psychological_Well-Being_and_Personality/5332132 The thesis aimed to examine the significance of psychosocial factors (culture, self-construal, psychological well-being, and personality) in predicting SNS usages. Three quantitative studies were conducted. The first study identified cross-cultural differences in SNS usages between Malaysia, South Korea and China, and found the significance of the self-construal in predicting SNS usages. The second study revealed the significance of the severity of depression and OCD symptoms in predicting pathological use of SNS. The final study revealed that different personality traits (Openness to Experience; Dark Triad) predicted SNS usages differently. These results supported the significance of psychosocial factors in predicting SNS usages.