TY - JOUR
T1 - The personality of U.S. states
T2 - Stability from 1999 to 2015
AU - Elleman, Lorien G.
AU - Condon, David M.
AU - Russin, Sarah E.
AU - Revelle, William
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of this manuscript was funded in part by grant SMA-1419324 from the National Science Foundation to William Revelle. We would like to thank Jason Rentfrow and two anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments on a previous version of this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - Researchers have shown an interest in the aggregated Big Five personality of U.S. states, but typically they have relied on scores from a single sample (Rentfrow, Gosling, & Potter, 2008). We examine the replicability of U.S. state personality scores from two studies (Rentfrow et al., 2008; Rentfrow, Gosling, Jokela, & Stillwell, 2013) across a total of seven samples, two of them new. Same-trait correlations across samples are, on average, positive for all five traits, indicating score agreement. Additionally, three traits (Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness) show strongly consistent patterns of correlations with sociodemographic variables across samples. We find rank order stability in state personality scores for a 16-year period (1999–2015).
AB - Researchers have shown an interest in the aggregated Big Five personality of U.S. states, but typically they have relied on scores from a single sample (Rentfrow, Gosling, & Potter, 2008). We examine the replicability of U.S. state personality scores from two studies (Rentfrow et al., 2008; Rentfrow, Gosling, Jokela, & Stillwell, 2013) across a total of seven samples, two of them new. Same-trait correlations across samples are, on average, positive for all five traits, indicating score agreement. Additionally, three traits (Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness) show strongly consistent patterns of correlations with sociodemographic variables across samples. We find rank order stability in state personality scores for a 16-year period (1999–2015).
KW - Aggregate personality
KW - Big Five
KW - Online personality assessment
KW - Personality of U.S. states
KW - Regional differences
KW - Replication
KW - Scale generalizability
KW - Sociodemographic
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.06.022
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.06.022
M3 - Article
C2 - 32831424
AN - SCOPUS:85044326701
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 72
SP - 64
EP - 72
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
ER -