Big Five personality differences and political, social, and economic conservatism: An American state-level analysis.

2014 ◽  
pp. 139-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart J. H. McCann
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
State Level ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
American State

Big Five Personality Factors and Suicide Rates in the United States: A State-Level Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Voracek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Big Five ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
Cross National

Partly replicating findings from several cross-national studies (of Lester and of Voracek) on possible aggregate-level associations between personality and suicide prevalence, state-level analysis within the United States yielded significantly negative associations between the Big Five factor of Neuroticism and suicide rates. This effect was observed for historical as well as contemporary suicide rates of the total or the elderly population and was preserved with controls for the four other Big Five factors and measures of state wealth. Also conforming to cross-national findings, the Big Five factors of Agreeableness and Extraversion were negatively, albeit not reliably, associated with suicide rates.

Happy Twitter Tweets are More Likely in American States with Lower Levels of Resident Neuroticism

2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 891-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart J. H. McCann
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Partial Correlation ◽  
State Level ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
White Population ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
American States

Relations between Big Five personality scores aggregated at the American state level and the happiness of Twitter tweet content emanating from each of the 50 American states were explored with the 50 states as the units of analysis. Tweet happiness correlated negatively with Neuroticism, and the relation remained when partial correlation and multiple regression adjusted and controlled for state socioeconomic status, white population percent, and urban population percent. In contrast, state levels of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness showed no relation to state levels of the happiness of tweet content.

A gender study of personality and humor in comedians

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Schwehm ◽  
Wilson McDermut ◽  
Katherine Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Humor Styles ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Gender Study ◽  
And Gender

AbstractAlthough individual differences in personality traits and humor between comedians and non-comedians have received increased attention, conclusions are limited to males as prior samples include few female comedians. This is the first quantitative study of personality traits and humor with more female (n=36) than male (n=33) comedians. This study compared comedians to a diverse non-comedian sample of undergraduates (n=89). A logistic regression using personality, humor styles, and gender as predictors correctly identified 83% of participants as either comedians or non-comedians. As hypothesized, personality and humor styles, but not gender, were significant predictors of comedian status. Male and female comedians were similar on Big Five Personality traits except for neuroticism, on which female comedians scored significantly higher than their male counterparts. Comedians scored significantly higher than non-comedians on extraversion and openness, while non-comedians just failed to be significant in scoring higher than comedians on agreeableness. In addition, as measured by the Humor Styles Questionnaire, male and female comedians scored similarly on all four humor styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, self-defeating) and scored higher than non-comedians on the humor styles. Overall, these findings suggest personality differences and humor styles are two traits responsible for individuals pursuing stand-up comedy.

scholarly journals Managing multi-generation employees at work: understanding inter-generational employee differences with big-five models and their effects on job stress

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Diaz Haryokusumo ◽  
Bambang Setia Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Generation X ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Personality Types ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Five Dimension

This study aims to determine differences of employee’s personality between generation X and generation Y. We use the big five personality model consists of extraversion, agreableness, conscientiousness, neoriticsm, and openness to experience. This research also intended to examine the effect of big five personality on job stress on generation X and Y. The hypothesis was tested using independent sample t-test and multiple regression. The results of hypothesis testing on 126 samples indicated that there are no personality differences in the big five dimension among generation X and Y. The multiple regression results also do not show the influence of personality types on the level of work stress felt by generation X and Y. Additional analysis results show there is no difference in job stress level felt by generation X and Y.

scholarly journals Colour Preferences and Personality Traits

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reidulf G. Watten ◽  
Knut Inge Fostervold
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pairwise Comparisons ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Colour System ◽  
Colour Preferences

Colours are important features in human and natural environments and are related to several psychological functions. However, a possible relation between colour preferences and personality traits is scarcely investigated. The aim of the present study was to find out whether differences in preferences for colours also reflected differences in Big Five personality traits. The sample consisted of 206 individuals voluntarily recruited from a student sample. The participants chose one of six primary colours (blue, green, red, yellow, black, white) from the Natural Colour System (NCS) as their favorite colour. Personality traits were measured with the Big Five Inventory-44 (BFI-44. Blue and yellow was the most and least preferred chromatic colour, respectively. There were no gender differences in preferences for the chromatic colours, but more women preferred white and men preferred black. Compared to the rest of the sample, the blue group had higher scores on agreeableness and extraversion, and the red group had lower scores on agreeableness. Pairwise comparisons showed that the blue group had higher scores on agreeableness and extraversion than the red group, and higher scores on agreeableness compared to the green group. There were no significant personality differences for the other chromatic and achromatic colour groups.

College Student Samples Are Not Always Equivalent: The Magnitude of Personality Differences across Colleges and Universities

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine S. Corker ◽  
Brent Donnellan ◽  
Su Yeong Kim ◽  
Seth J. Schwartz ◽  
Byron Zamboanga
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Level Information

Objective: This research examined the magnitude of personality differences across different colleges and universities to understand (1) how much students at different colleges vary from one another and (2) whether there are site level variables that can explain observed differences.Method: Nearly 8,600 students at 30 colleges and universities completed a Big Five personality trait measure. Site level information was obtained from the Integrated Post-Secondary Education System database (U.S.Department of Education).Results: Multi-level models revealed that each of the Big Five traits showed significant between-site variability, even after accounting for individual level demographic differences. Some site-level variables (e.g., enrollment size, requiring letters of recommendation) explained between-site differences in traits, but many tests were not statisticallysignificant.Conclusions: Student samples at different universities differed in terms of average levels of Big Five personality domains. This raises the possibility that personality differences may explain differences in research results obtained when studying students at different colleges and universities. Furthermore, results suggest that research that compares findings for only a few sites (e.g., much cross cultural research) runs the risk of overgeneralizing differences between specific samples to broader group differences. These results underscore the value of multisite collaborative research efforts to enhance psychological research.

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