The Well-Being Benefits of Person-Culture Match Are Contingent on Basic Personality Traits
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People enjoy well-being benefits if their personal characteristics match those of their culture. Thisperson-culture match effectis 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.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 0956797620951115 |
Journal | Psychological Science |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 10 |
Pages (from-to) | 1283-1293 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISSN | 0956-7976 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2020 |
- person-culture match, culture, basic personality traits, Big Two, Big Five, open data, open materials, SELF-ESTEEM, PEOPLE HAPPY, RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, HYPOTHESIS, CONTEXTS, MOTIVES, OTHERS, NORM, LIVE
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