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).