Facebook Communication Network, Achievement, Personality Types, and Attitudes among University Students

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between the use of the Facebook, the personality types, academic achievement, and attitudes towards Facebook among female students as users on non-users of Facebook. The study sample consisted of two classes of the students of Princess Alia College at Balqa University at the 2013\2014 academic year from subject technology education; the bachelor level consisted of 61 students, and the diploma level consisted of 48 students. Three tools were used in the study: The Academic Achievement Test in Technological Education, the Attitudes Towards Facebook Scale, and the Personality Types of the Myers-Briggs scale. The study found significant differences in the academic achievement in favour of non-user students in both groups, and in the extraversion personal and the judgment types in favour of users and Bachelor level students. as well as attitudes in favour of users of Facebook. The study finally showed that there was a significant correlation between achievement, attitudes towards Facebook and personality types.