Personality affects how emerging adults select friends and how they are selected on social networking sites (SNSs). Big Five personality traits and frequency of contacts on SNSs were collected from 160 college freshmen (M = 18 years) under a round‐robin design over 2 months. Using social network analyses, we examined how personality and dyadic similarity affect online friend selections among new acquaintances. Our results show that people with high extraversion, neuroticism, and agreeableness and low openness selected more friends, verifying both the social enhancement hypothesis and the social compensation hypothesis. People with low extraversion, conscientiousness, and neuroticism and high openness were selected as online friends more often. Only openness dissimilarity had a salutary effect. We discuss the role of personality in social networking friend selection.

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社交网站上的个性和新兴成年人的朋友选择：社交网络分析的角度

个性会影响新兴成年人如何选择朋友以及如何在社交网站（SNSs）上选择他们。从160名大学新生中收集SNS的五种人格特征和接触频率（M =18年），经过2个月的轮循设计。使用社交网络分析，我们研究了个性和二进相似性如何影响新朋友中的在线朋友选择。我们的结果表明，外向性，神经质，乐于助人和开放度低的人选择了更多的朋友，从而验证了社会增强假设和社会补偿假设。外向型，尽责，神经质和开放性高的人更经常被选为在线朋友。只有开放性差异才具有有益作用。我们讨论了个性在社交网络好友选择中的作用。