scholarly journals Big Five and HEXACO Personality Traits, Proenvironmental Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 913-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Raymond Bryce Soutter ◽  
Timothy C. Bates ◽  
René Mõttus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Gender Ratio ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Funnel Plots ◽  
And Behaviors

With climate change and its consequences believed to be among the most vital challenges for humanity and the Earth’s ecosystem, it is important to understand why individuals do or do not adopt proenvironmental attitudes and behaviors. Personality traits are well suited for this purpose. Because no recent work has systematically combined the accumulating evidence on this topic, we aimed to meta-analyze the associations of the Big Five and HEXACO personality domains with proenvironmental attitudes and behaviors. A meta-analysis of 38 sources ( N = 44,993) implicated openness and honesty-humility as the strongest correlates of proenvironmental attitudes ( r = .22 and .20) and behaviors ( r = .21 and .25). Agreeableness, conscientiousness, and, to a lesser extent, extraversion were also associated with proenvironmental attitudes ( r = .15, .12, and .09) and behaviors ( r = .10, .11, and .10). Heterogeneity among effect sizes was partly explained by samples’ gender ratio, age, and country of origin and by the personality model. P-curve analyses, funnel plots, and Egger’s tests indicated significant but sporadic and small publication bias. As a validity test, the meta-analytic associations collectively provided substantial predictive accuracy for proenvironmental attitudes ( r = .44–.45) and behaviors ( r = .28–.43) in independent holdout samples.

scholarly journals Big Five Facets’ Associations with Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Raymond Bryce Soutter ◽  
René Mõttus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Prediction Analysis ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Detailed Picture

Climate change mandates us to understand why individual’s (do not) act environmentally and personality traits are well suited for this purpose. Research has mostly focused on broad do-main-level associations between personality traits and pro-environmental behaviors and attitudes. In two datasets (N = 501 and 287), we examined whether facets provided a more detailed picture of these association. Some facets were found to be the main drivers of the do-main-level associations. Out-sample prediction analysis showed that facets collectively predicted pro-environmental attitudes (r = .50 to .52) and behaviors (r = .29 to .42), but domains matched them. Therefore, facets provided a greater understanding of traits’ association with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors than domains, but no additional overall predictive power.

Meta-analysis of Big Five personality traits in autism spectrum disorder

Autism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 556-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lodi-Smith ◽  
Jonathan D Rodgers ◽  
Sara A Cunningham ◽  
Christopher Lopata ◽  
Marcus L Thomeer
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis

The present meta-analysis synthesizes the emerging literature on the relationship of Big Five personality traits to autism spectrum disorder. Studies were included if they (1) either (a) measured autism spectrum disorder characteristics using a metric that yielded a single score quantification of the magnitude of autism spectrum disorder characteristics and/or (b) studied individuals with an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis compared to individuals without an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis and (2) measured Big Five traits in the same sample or samples. Fourteen reviewed studies include both correlational analyses and group comparisons. Eighteen effect sizes per Big Five trait were used to calculate two overall effect sizes per trait. Meta-analytic effects were calculated using random effects models. Twelve effects (per trait) from nine studies reporting correlations yielded a negative association between each Big Five personality trait and autism spectrum disorder characteristics (Fisher’s z ranged from –.21 (conscientiousness) to –.50 (extraversion)). Six group contrasts (per trait) from six studies comparing individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder to neurotypical individuals were also substantial (Hedges’ g ranged from –.88 (conscientiousness) to −1.42 (extraversion)). The potential impact of personality on important life outcomes and new directions for future research on personality in autism spectrum disorder are discussed in light of results.

The five factor model of personality and sense of coherence: A meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 135910531988459
Author(s):  
Urszula Barańczuk
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Moderating Effects

The aim of the study was to evaluate the relation between the big five personality traits and sense of coherence. Data for the meta-analysis were collected from 19 studies which included 24 independent samples, 133 effect sizes, and 19,960 participants. Lower neuroticism and higher extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were associated with total sense of coherence as well as comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness, and reflection dimensions. Personality traits were not linked to balance. There were no moderating effects on these relationships. The study extends current knowledge on the associations between personality traits and sense of coherence.

Personality change and sustainability attitudes and behaviors

2021 ◽  
pp. 089020702110162
Author(s):  
Christopher J Hopwood ◽  
Ted Schwaba ◽  
Taciano L Milfont ◽  
Chris G Sibley ◽  
Wiebke Bleidorn
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

Withstanding the climate crisis will depend in part on individuals behaving in a more environmentally sustainable manner. However, relatively little is known about the individual factors that promote sustainable attitudes and behaviors (SABs). Although there are established cross-sectional associations between personality traits and SABs, it is unclear whether changes in personality are related to increases in SABs over time, and how personality is differentially related to specific SABs. Using data from 61,479 participants in New Zealand, we tested preregistered hypotheses about how personality codevelops with valuing the environment, believing in climate change, concern about climate change, personal environmental efficacy, personal environmental sacrifice, and support for the Green Party. We found that SABs generally increased from 2009 to 2017, although there was variation across age cohorts, SAB variables, and samples. We replicated concurrent correlations between broad personality traits—particularly Agreeableness, Openness, and Honesty/Humility—and SABs and present novel evidence that increases in SAB are related to changes in traits, particularly Agreeableness. These findings have implications for both understanding the factors associated with changes in SABs over time and understanding the factors that drive personality change.

Multidimensional Perfectionism and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Meta–Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Stricker ◽  
Susanne Buecker ◽  
Michael Schneider ◽  
Franzis Preckel
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Nomological Network ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Equation Modelling

Multidimensional perfectionism includes the dimensions perfectionistic concerns and perfectionistic strivings. Many studies have investigated the nomological network of multidimensional perfectionism by relating perfectionistic concerns and perfectionistic strivings to the Big Five personality traits. Results from these studies were largely inconsistent. In the present study, we meta–analytically integrated 672 effect sizes from 72 samples ( N = 21 573) describing relations between multidimensional perfectionism and the Big Five personality traits. Perfectionistic concerns correlated positively with Neuroticism ( r = 0.383) and negatively with Extraversion ( r = −0.198), Agreeableness ( r = −0.198), Conscientiousness ( r = −0.111), and Openness ( r = −0.087). Perfectionistic strivings correlated positively with Conscientiousness ( r = 0.368), Openness ( r = 0.121), Neuroticism ( r = 0.090), and Extraversion ( r = 0.067) and were unrelated to Agreeableness ( r = 0.002). The measures of perfectionistic concerns and perfectionistic strivings moderated most of these relations. Meta–analytic structural equation modelling allowed controlling each perfectionism dimension for the respective other. This partialling increased all correlations with the exception of the previously positive correlation between perfectionistic strivings and Neuroticism, which ceased to be significant. The findings support the distinction between perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns and demonstrate how multidimensional perfectionism is situated in the context of broader personality traits. © 2019 European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals Socially prescribed perfectioism and personality

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
María Vicent ◽  
Cándido J. Inglés ◽  
Carolina Gonzálvez ◽  
Ricardo Sanmartín ◽  
José Manuel García-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Socially Prescribed Perfectionism ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and the Big Five personality traits in a sample of 804 Primary School students between 8 and 11 years old (M=9.57; SD=1.12). The SPP subscale of the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS) and the Big Five Questionnaire for Children (BFQ-N), which evaluate the traits of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness, were used. The mean difference analysis showed that students with high levels of SPP scored significantly higher on Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion and Openness, with small effect sizes for all cases. In contrast, no significant differences were observed in Neuroticism. Logistic regression analysis revealed that all personality traits, except neuroticism, whose results didn’t reach the statistical significance, significantly and positively predicted higher scores on PSP, with OR levels ranging from 1.01 (for Conscientiousness and Agreeableness) to 1.03 (for Openness and Extraversion).

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