Practical recommendations for considering culture, race, and ethnicity in personality psychology

Practical Recommendations for Considering Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Personality Psychology

10.31219/osf.io/bjgh4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Memoona Arshad ◽

Joanne M. Chung

Keyword(s):

Race And Ethnicity ◽

Community Based Participatory Research ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Community Based ◽

Personality Psychology ◽

Personality Research ◽

Research Findings ◽

The Individual ◽

Participatory Research Methods ◽

Practical Recommendations

Personality science is the study of the individual. It aims to understand what makes people similar to others, different from some, and unique to themselves. However, research in personality lacks a thoughtful consideration of culture, race, and ethnicity that is essential for understanding individual differences in patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. High impact personality journals rarely include such factors into the interpretation of results, and cross-cultural and ethnic minority publications are limited within the discipline. This paper offers a brief, non-exhaustive overview of how culture, race, and ethnicity are examined in relation to personality, showing that: 1) social structures continue to be neglected in the research, 2) we can learn from research being conducted in neighbouring areas, 3) and valuable work is already being done within personality psychology. We offer recommendations that include community based participatory research methods, combined emic-etic approaches, and contextualizing research findings to improve the consideration of culture, race, and ethnicity in personality research.

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Psychological and Behavioural Responses to Coronavirus Disease 2019: The Role of Personality

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.2281 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. per.2281 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Damaris Aschwanden ◽

Jason E. Strickhouser ◽

Amanda A. Sesker ◽

Ji Hyun Lee ◽

Martina Luchetti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Race And Ethnicity ◽

Regression Models ◽

European Association ◽

Personality Psychology ◽

The Public ◽

Behavioural Responses ◽

Gender Education ◽

The Usa

This study examined the associations between personality traits and psychological and behavioural responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic. Personality was assessed in January/February 2020 when the public was not aware of the spread of coronavirus in the USA. Participants were reassessed in late March 2020 with four sets of questions about the pandemic: concerns, precautions, preparatory behaviours, and duration estimates. The sample consisted of N = 2066 participants (mean age = 51.42; range = 18–98; 48.5% women). Regression models were used to analyse the data with age, gender, education, race, and ethnicity as covariates. Consistent with the preregistered hypotheses, higher neuroticism was related to more concerns and longer duration estimates related to COVID–19, higher extraversion was related to shorter duration estimates, and higher conscientiousness was associated with more precautions. In contrast to the preregistered hypotheses, higher neuroticism was associated with fewer precautions and unrelated to preparatory behaviours. Age moderated several trait–response associations, suggesting that some of the responses were associated more strongly in older adults, a group at risk for complications of COVID–19. For example, older adults high in conscientiousness prepared more. The present findings provide insights into how personality predicts concerns and behaviours related to the COVID–19 pandemic. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

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