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. 2020 Jul 14;11:1415. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01415

TABLE 4.

Partial correlations between the Big Five personality traits and the items on the willingness to pay for social media and messenger services in the total sample.

Total sample (N = 210)
Willingness to pay Amount of monthly social media fee Amount of monthly messenger fee
Openness r = 0.11, p = 0.098 rs = 0.09, p = 0.175 rs = −0.03, p = 0.616
Conscientiousness r = −0.08, p = 0.280 rs = −0.04, p = 0.592 rs = −0.05, p = 0.477
Extraversion r = −0.01, p = 0.846 rs = −0.01. p = 0.907 rs = −0.07, p = 0.288
Agreeableness r = 0.20, p = 0.004 rs = 0.13, p = 0.053 rs = 0.16, p = 0.023
Neuroticism r = −0.02, p = 0.805 rs = −0.05, p = 0.495 rs = −0.06, p = 0.409

Willingness to pay: aggregate score of four items on whether participants were willing to pay for social media (such as Facebook and Instagram); amount of monthly social media fee: how much money participants would be willing to pay for one social media service, such as Facebook and Instagram, per month; amount of monthly messenger fee: how much money participants would be willing to pay for one messenger service per month; all correlations presented are corrected for age.