14 research outputs found
Who Are the Scrooges? Personality Predictors of Holiday Spending
The sharp increase in consumption over the holiday season has important economic
implications, yet the psychology underlying this phenomenon has received limited attention.
Here, we evaluate the role of individual differences in holiday spending patterns. Using 2 million
transactions across 2,133 individuals, we investigate the relationship between the Big 5
personality traits on spending at Christmas. Zero-order correlations suggest holiday spending is
associated with conscientiousness, neuroticism and extraversion; the relationship with
neuroticism persists after accounting for possible confounders, including income and
demographics. These results improve our understanding of how different personality traits
predict how people respond to the environmental demands of the holiday season and have
broader implications for how personality relates to consumer behavior
Who Are the Scrooges? Personality Predictors of Holiday Spending
The sharp increase in consumption over the holiday season has important economic
implications, yet the psychology underlying this phenomenon has received limited attention.
Here, we evaluate the role of individual differences in holiday spending patterns. Using 2 million
transactions across 2,133 individuals, we investigate the relationship between the Big 5
personality traits on spending at Christmas. Zero-order correlations suggest holiday spending is
associated with conscientiousness, neuroticism and extraversion; the relationship with
neuroticism persists after accounting for possible confounders, including income and
demographics. These results improve our understanding of how different personality traits
predict how people respond to the environmental demands of the holiday season and have
broader implications for how personality relates to consumer behavior
Personality predicts mortality risk: An integrative data analysis of 15 international longitudinal studies
This study examined the Big Five personality traits as predictors of mortality risk, and smoking as a mediator of that association. Replication was built into the fabric of our design: we used a Coordinated Analysis with 15 international datasets, representing 44,094 participants. We found that high neuroticism and low conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness were consistent predictors of mortality across studies. Smoking had a small mediating effect for neuroticism. Country and baseline age explained variation in effects: studies with older baseline age showed a pattern of protective effects (HR < 1.00) for openness, and U.S. studies showed a pattern of protective effects for extraversion. This study demonstrated coordinated analysis as a powerful approach to enhance replicability and reproducibility, especially for aging-related longitudinal research
Multiple-Indicator Multilevel Growth Model: A Solution to Multiple Methodological Challenges in Longitudinal Studies
Growth and change, Quality of life, Latent growth modeling, Measurement invariance, Pratt’s measures, Psychological well-being, Longitudinal studies,