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The Well-Being Benefits of Person-Culture Match Are Contingent on Basic Personality Traits
People enjoy well-being benefits if their personal characteristics match those of their culture. This person-culture match effect is integral to many psychological theories and—as a driver of migration—carries much societal relevance. But do people differ in the degree to which person-culture match confers well-being benefits? In the first-ever empirical test of that question, we examined whether the person-culture match effect is moderated by basic personality traits—the Big Two and Big Five. We relied on self-reports from 2,672,820 people across 102 countries and informant reports from 850,877 people across 61 countries. Communion, agreeableness, and neuroticism exacerbated the person-culture match effect, whereas agency, openness, extraversion, and conscientiousness diminished it. People who possessed low levels of communion coupled with high levels of agency evidenced no well-being benefits from person-culture match, and people who possessed low levels of agreeableness and neuroticism coupled with high levels of openness, extraversion, and conscientiousness even evidenced well-being costs. Those results have implications for theories building on the person-culture match effect, illuminate the mechanisms driving that effect, and help explain failures to replicate it.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Psychological Science ; ISSN: 0956-7976 ; Volume: 31 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 10 ; Pages: 1283-1293 ; Thousand Oaks: Sage
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
- Subject
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person-culture match
culture
basic personality traits
Big Two
Big Five
open data
open materials
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gebauer, Jochen E.
Eck, Jennifer
Entringer, Theresa M.
Bleidorn, Wiebke
Rentfrow, Peter J.
Potter, Jeff
Gosling, Samuel D.
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Veröffentlichung
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Sage
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Thousand Oaks
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.1177/0956797620951115
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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- Artikel
Associated
- Gebauer, Jochen E.
- Eck, Jennifer
- Entringer, Theresa M.
- Bleidorn, Wiebke
- Rentfrow, Peter J.
- Potter, Jeff
- Gosling, Samuel D.
- Sage
Time of origin
- 2020
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