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New study reveals what your emoji choices might say about your personality
A new study offers some insight into what some personality traits and mental health status might mean for your emoji preferences.�
Emojis can say a lot about a person and often even more than words can. From your mood to your entire vibe, emojis offer it all.
Now, a new study has shown links between select personality traits and mental health levels, and emoji preferences.�
The study behind the emoji findings
The study was published in Psychological Reports on December 7th and examined the relationship between mental health, personality, prosocial behavior and emoji use. Researcher Janine Carroll led the study, which looked at 222 participants from the University of Chester and Prolific Academic.
Participants of the study were measured on their levels of anxiety and depression, prosocial behavior, Big 5 personality traits and their emoji usage. Emoji usage was measured according to frequency, motivation, attitudes, and preferences, specifically positive or negative emojis.�
What your emojis might say about your personality
The study found that those who had strong levels of extraversion, agreeableness, and prosocial behaviors, tended to have a stronger preference for positive emojis.
Extraversion, conscientiousness, and emotional stability were all heavily linked to a lower preference for negative emoji choices.
Those who showed higher prosocial behaviors were more likely to use emojis more frequently, had higher motivations to use emojis to express themselves, and had more positive attitudes towards emoji use.
Participants who preferred negative emojis, however, tended to be individuals reporting poorer general mental health or emotional instability, according to the study. The study notes however that general mental health in this case refers only to anxiety and depression measurements.
New emojis are coming soon
As shown by the new study, emojis can offer strong tools of communication and say a lot about a texter.
Its been a while however since Apple has released new emojis, but its just around the corner. Reports suggest that despite new emojis not appearing with the latest iOS update, they should be coming in 2024. The Unicode Consortium formally approved Emoji 15.1, which is a list of 118 new emojis set to appear.
New emojis will include broken chains, a phoenix and various new family units.
