The study investigates how personality traits and locus of control affect online participation in public affairs, suggesting ways to enhance citizen engagement.
This study was designed to explore the determinants of e-participation in public affairs by developing and validating an e-participation model that elucidates the relationships among personality traits (i.e., big-five personality traits and locus of control), motivations (i.e., intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation), e-participation intention and actual e-participation. The developed model was tested on data from 244 participants using the partial least squares (PLS) approach. The results indicate: e-participation intention positively influences actual e-participation; intrinsic motivation mediates the relationships between agreeableness and e-participation intention and between extraversion and e-participation intention; extrinsic motivation mediates the relationship between agreeableness and e-participation intention; openness to experience positively and directly impacts e-participation intention; and internal locus of control negatively and directly impacts e-participation intention. The findings of this study provide several important theoretical and practical implications for promoting greater e-participation by citizens in public affairs.
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