The role of procrastination between personality traits and addictive mukbang watching among emerging adults

Kircaburun, K ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8678-9078, March, E, Balta, S, Emirtekin, E, Kışla, T and Griffiths, MD ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, 2022. The role of procrastination between personality traits and addictive mukbang watching among emerging adults. SAGE Open, 12 (1). ISSN 2158-2440

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Abstract

The role of personality traits in the development of addictive use of different online activities has been extensively demonstrated in the previous studies. One new type of online activity is the watching of mukbang (the South Korean term for “eating broadcasts”). However, very little is known about addictive mukbang watching (AMW) and its relationship to personality constructs. The present study investigated the direct and indirect associations of Big Five personality traits (i.e., extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness) and dark personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism, spitefulness) with AMW via procrastination. An online survey that comprised items assessing the aforementioned variables was completed by 222 university students who had watched mukbang at least once in the previous week. Path analysis indicated that extroversion was indirectly negatively associated with AMW via procrastination. Furthermore, conscientiousness, sadism, and procrastination were directly positively associated with higher AMW. Findings suggest that individuals may develop and maintain uncontrolled mukbang watching in order to procrastinate and personality traits may play a contributing role in this association.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: SAGE Open
Creators: Kircaburun, K., March, E., Balta, S., Emirtekin, E., Kışla, T. and Griffiths, M.D.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20 March 2022
Volume: 12
Number: 1
ISSN: 2158-2440
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10.1177/21582440221085006
DOI
1531314
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Rights: Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions: Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by: Linda Sullivan
Date Added: 22 Mar 2022 10:54
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 13:42
URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45945

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