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To Live Among Like-Minded Others

Published:2016-02-03 Issue:3 Volume:27 Page:419-427
ISSN:0956-7976
Container-title:Psychological Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Psychol Sci

Author:

Bleidorn Wiebke¹²,Schönbrodt Felix³,Gebauer Jochen E.⁴,Rentfrow Peter J.⁵,Potter Jeff⁶,Gosling Samuel D.⁷⁸

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis

2. Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University

3. Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

4. Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim

5. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge

6. Atof Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

7. Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

8. Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne

Abstract

Does it matter if your personality fits in with the personalities of the people where you live? The present study explored the links between person-city personality fit and self-esteem. Using data from 543,934 residents of 860 U.S. cities, we examined the extent to which the fit between individuals’ Big Five personality traits and the Big Five traits of the city where they live (i.e., the prevalent traits of the city’s inhabitants) predicts individuals’ self-esteem. To provide a benchmark for these effects, we also estimated the degree to which the fit between person and city religiosity predicts individuals’ self-esteem. The results provided a nuanced picture of the effects of person-city personality fit on self-esteem: We found significant but small effects of fit on self-esteem only for openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, rather than effects for all Big Five traits. Similar results and effect sizes were observed for religiosity. We conclude with a discussion of the relevance and limitations of this study.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797615627133

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