To Live Among Like-Minded Others

Wiebke Bleidorn · Felix D. Schönbrodt · Jochen E. Gebauer · Peter Jason Rentfrow · Jeff Potter · Samuel D. Gosling

161 citations0/0 files storedPsychological Science

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Personality Traits and Psychology Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction Cultural Differences and Values

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.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 161 citations exist upstream.

References

2001Measuring Global Self-Esteem: Construct Validation of a Single-Item Measure and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale 2004Should We Trust Web-Based Studies? A Comparative Analysis of Six Preconceptions About Internet Questionnaires.2000The nature and function of self-esteem: Sociometer theory 1982Psychological perspectives on the self 2014The Development of Self-Esteem 2005Value From Regulatory Fit 1996Shared reality: How social verification makes the subjective objective.2008Who's your city?: how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life

Cited by

2020A Review and Conceptual Framework for Understanding Personalized Matching Effects in Persuasion 2020The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology 2019Establishing construct validity evidence for regional measures of explicit and implicit racial bias.2017In the shadow of coal: How large-scale industries contributed to present-day regional differences in personality and well-being.2021Capturing interactions, correlations, fits, and transactions: A Person-Environment Relations Model

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.