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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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Psychological Science ; ISSN: 0956-7976 ; Volume: 31 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 10 ; Pages: 1283-1293 ; Thousand Oaks: Sage

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Thema
person-culture match
culture
basic personality traits
Big Two
Big Five
open data
open materials

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gebauer, Jochen E.
Eck, Jennifer
Entringer, Theresa M.
Bleidorn, Wiebke
Rentfrow, Peter J.
Potter, Jeff
Gosling, Samuel D.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Sage
(wo)
Thousand Oaks
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.1177/0956797620951115
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Gebauer, Jochen E.
  • Eck, Jennifer
  • Entringer, Theresa M.
  • Bleidorn, Wiebke
  • Rentfrow, Peter J.
  • Potter, Jeff
  • Gosling, Samuel D.
  • Sage

Entstanden

  • 2020

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