This research aimed to determine the effects of personality traits and age on psychological needs to use social networks. Psychological needs to use social networks is conditions or desires to someone to use social networks. Personality Trait is a description of behaviours that can be grouped into five types: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. The age of marriage starts from the day when the couple has married. Age of marriage is reflected in the family cycle phase. This research is quantitative. Subjects in this study were 94, which consisted of 80 women and 14 men. All of them live in Pekanbaru-Riau. The subject was determined by incidental sampling technique. This research was conducted at Pekanbaru. The hypotheses tested were (1) personality trait and age of marriage as predictors for psychological needs to use social networks, (2) type of personality is a predictor for psychological needs to use social networks (3) age of marriage is a predictor of psychological needs to use social networks. The obtained data had been analyzed by two way ANOVA. The Finding revealed that personality trait and age of marriage effect psychological needs to use social networks, with contribution is 7.4%; F= 3.644; p= 0.030 (0.03<0.05). Personality trait has no effect on the psychological needs using social networks (β = 0195, p>0.05) and the age of marriage affect on the psychological need to use social network (β=-.216, p<0.05).

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Napitupulu, L. (2016). Traits of personality and age of marriage as predictors for psychological needs to use social networks. International Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, 2(2), 65-72.