Regional personality differences in Great Britain.

ABSTRACT: Recent investigations indicate that personality traits are unevenly distributed geographically, with some traits being more prevalent in certain places than in others. The geographical distributions of personality traits are associated with a range of important political, economic, social, and health outcomes. The majority of research on this subject has focused on the geographical distributions and macro-level correlates of personality across nations or regions of the United States. The aim of the present investigation was to replicate and extend that past work by examining regional personality differences in Great Britain. Using a sample of nearly 400,000 British residents, we mapped the geographical distributions of the Big Five Personality traits across 380 Local Authority Districts an

SUBMITTER: Rentfrow PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4372610 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature