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To live among like-minded others : exploring the links between person-city personality fit and self-esteem


Bleidorn, Wiebke ; Schönbrodt, Felix ; Gebauer, Jochen E. ; Rentfrow, Peter J. ; Potter, Jeff ; Gosling, Samuel D.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615627133
URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797615...
Additional URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/25301...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2016
The title of a journal, publication series: Psychological Science
Volume: 27
Issue number: 3
Page range: 419-427
Place of publication: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA
Publishing house: Sage Publications
ISSN: 0956-7976 , 1467-9280
Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department A
Subject: 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
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.




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