Comparing associations between personality and loneliness at midlife across three cultural groups.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Loneliness represents a public health threat given its central role in predicting adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Prior research has established four of the Big Five personality traits as consistent cross-sectional predictors of loneliness in largely western, White samples. However, it is not clear if the personality predictors of loneliness vary across cultures.

Method

The present study estimates associations between the Big Five traits and loneliness across distinct samples of White American, Black American, and Japanese adults (n = 6051 at T1). Confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling were used to examine measurement invariance properties of the Big Five and loneliness across these groups. The factor structures were

SUBMITTER: Freilich CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9899295 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature