Post by Markus Grillitsch

✨ New Paper: Regional Personality Variation in Sweden: Trait Clusters, Links to Health and Well-Being, and Historical Context In this paper we analyse varations in Big-Five personality traits between Swedish regions. These varations are suggestive for the long-term influence of history and industrial legacies on regional personality profiles, as argued for in previous studies. We find that the personality traits related to better psychological functioning and well-being are clustered in space. These are the traits of extraversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability. We find that these spatial clusters are associated with measures of health and well-being, even though the associations are not uniform across all measures. The findings are important to understand long-term regional development and well-being, and caution policy makers to pay attention to soft factors of development. Find the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/dHanFBCD With Martin Obschonka Nicklas Guldåker Daniel Rauhut Sam Gosling Peter Rentfrow and Jeff Potter The Department of Human Geography, Lund University CIRCLE, Lund University