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Big Five personality traits predict small but robust differences in civic engagement

Stahlmann, Alexander G; Hopwood, Christopher J; Bleidorn, Wiebke (2024). Big Five personality traits predict small but robust differences in civic engagement. Journal of Personality, 92(2):480-494.

Abstract

Objective
This preregistered study provides robust estimates of the links between Big Five personality traits and civic engagement across different samples and life stages.
Methods
We recruited two samples from the United States and United Kingdom (total N = 1593) and measured Big Five domains, Big Five aspects, and six civic engagement indicators: volunteerism, charitable giving, donating blood, posthumous organ donation, political voting, and vaccination. We compared the links between these measures across samples and tested moderation across life stages and several sociodemographic variables. We explored whether these links replicate between self‐ and peer‐reports.
Results
We found small but robust effects. Agreeable, extraverted, and open/intellectual participants reported more civic engagement, especially volunteerism and charitable giving. Neurotic and conscientious participants mainly reported less civic engagement, especially blood and organ donations. One of the two Big Five aspects often drove these links, such as Compassion in the link between Agreeableness and volunteerism. We found some differences between younger and middle‐aged adults.
Conclusions
Big Five personality traits predict civic engagement modestly but consistently, with adequate study power being critical to detecting these links. Lower‐order traits, such as Big Five aspects, clarify the relationships between traits and engagement. Life stages and sociodemographic variables have limited effects.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Social Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:aspects, charitable giving, donating blood, political voting, posthumous organ donation, vaccination, volunteerism
Language:English
Date:1 April 2024
Deposited On:10 Oct 2024 11:24
Last Modified:11 Oct 2024 20:00
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN:0022-3506
OA Status:Hybrid
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12838
PubMed ID:37066516
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