The lay of the land: Associations between environmental features and personality.

Autor: Militaru IE; Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK., Serapio-García G; Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK., Ebert T; Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany., Kong W; School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China., Gosling SD; Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.; School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia., Potter J; Atof Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA., Rentfrow PJ; Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK., Götz FM; Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of personality [J Pers] 2024 Feb; Vol. 92 (1), pp. 88-110. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 08.
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12822
Abstrakt: Objective: Personality traits cluster across countries, regions, cities, and neighborhoods. What drives the formation of these clusters? Ecological theory suggests that physical locations shape humans' patterns of behaviors and psychological characteristics. Based on this theory, we examined whether and how differential land-cover relates to individual personality.
Method: We followed a preregistered three-pronged analysis approach to investigate the associations between personality (N = 2,690,878) and land-cover across the United States. We used eleven land-cover categories to classify landscapes and tested their association with personality against broad physical and socioeconomic factors.
Results: Urban areas were positively associated with openness to experience and negatively associated with conscientiousness. Coastal areas were positively associated with openness to experience and neuroticism but negatively associated with agreeableness and conscientiousness. Cultivated areas were negatively associated with openness. Landscapes at the periphery of human activity, such as shrubs, bare lands, or permanent snows, were not reliably associated with personality traits.
Conclusions: Bivariate correlations, multilevel, and random forest models uncovered robust associations between landscapes and personality traits. These findings align with ecological theory suggesting that an individual's environment contributes to their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.
(© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Personality published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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