Why are well-adjusted people seen more accurately? The role of personality-behavior congruence in naturalistic social settings
| Autor: | Katherine H. Rogers, Jeremy C. Biesanz, Lauren J. Human, Marie-Catherine Mignault |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Adolescent Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Friends 050109 social psychology PsycINFO Young Adult Congruence (geometry) Humans Personality Interpersonal Relations 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Big Five personality traits Social Behavior Naturalism media_common 05 social sciences Social relation Social Perception Well-being Trait Female Psychology Social Adjustment Social psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 117:465-482 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1315 0022-3514 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/pspp0000193 |
| Popis: | Expressive accuracy, being viewed in line with one's unique, distinctive personality traits, is emerging as an important individual difference that is strongly linked to psychological well-being. Yet little is known about what underlies expressive accuracy and its associations with well-being. The current studies examined whether personality-behavior congruence, the tendency to behave in line with one's distinctive personality trait profile, contributes to the links between well-being and expressive accuracy with new acquaintances (Unique perceiver-target pairs: Study 1: N = 437; Study 2: N = 874), by assessing congruence in naturalistic situations, including in a series of getting-acquainted interactions (Study 1; Ntargets = 77; Mdn Interactions: 7) and social situations in daily life over a 2-week period (Study 2; Ntargets = 146; MdnAssessments: 49). Across studies, we found that greater well-being predicted greater congruence, in both naturalistic social interactions and in daily life, which in turn contributed to greater expressive accuracy in getting-acquainted interactions. Overall, the current studies demonstrate the important role that congruence plays in expressive accuracy, helping to explain why well-adjusted individuals are seen more accurately. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). |
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