Human Personality Is Associated with Geographical Environment in Mainland China.

ABSTRACT: Recent psychological research shown that the places where we live are linked to our personality traits. Geographical aggregation of personalities has been observed in many individualistic nations; notably, the mountainousness is an essential component in understanding regional variances in personality. Could mountainousness therefore also explain the clustering of personality-types in collectivist countries like China? Using a nationwide survey (29,838 participants) in Mainland China, we investigated the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and mountainousness indicators at the provincial level. Multilevel modelling showed significant negative associations between the elevation coefficient of variation (Elevation CV) and the Big Five personality traits, whereas mean

SUBMITTER: Xu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9517826 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature