The dark side of conscientiousness: Conscientious people experience greater drops in life satisfaction following unemployment

Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M.; Brown, Gordon D.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.05.001

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“…For example, unemployed individuals who are conscientious endure the largest decreases in life satisfaction following unemployment (Boyce, A. M. Wood, & Brown, 2010), and conscientiousness is related to enjoyment of one's own income which the unemployed lack (Ameriks et al, 2003;Boyce & A. M. Wood, 2011a). These findings may be interpreted as indicating that, in some ways, it is preferable to be less conscientious.…”

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“…The SOEP is one of the primary socio-economic datasets with which hundred articles have been published (see http://www.diw.de/en/diw_02.c.221182.en/publications_with_soep_data.html). The authors have used portions of SOEP to answer different research questions in the following published research articles: Boyce, (2010), Boyce & Wood, (2011a), Boyce & Wood, (2011b) ;Boyce, Wood, & Brown, (2010).…”

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Personality change following unemployment.

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Unemployment has a strongly negative influence on well-being, but it is unclear whether it also alters basic personality traits. Whether personality changes arise through natural maturation processes or contextual/environmental factors is still a matter of debate. Unemployment, a relatively unexpected and commonly occurring life event, may shed light on the relevance of context for personality change. We examined, using a latent change model, the influence of unemployment on the five-factor model of personality in a sample of 6,769 German adults, who completed personality measures at 2 time points 4 years apart. All participants were employed at the first time point, and a subset became unemployed over the course of the study. By the second time point, participants had either remained in employment, been unemployed from 1 to 4 years, or had experienced some unemployment but become reemployed. Compared with those who had remained in employment, unemployed men and women experienced significant patterns of change in their mean levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness, whereas reemployed individuals experienced limited change. The results indicate that unemployment has wider psychological implications than previously thought. In addition, the results are consistent with the view that personality changes as a function of contextual and environmental factors.

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Personality change following unemployment.

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Daly

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“…Third, we allow for individual unobserved heterogeneity (α), which is assumed to be correlated with ethnic diversity. In general, unobserved individual characteristics can substantially influence SWB (Boyce et al, 2010). In our settings, it is particularly important to control for unobservable heterogeneity since there could be various selection mechanisms due to omitted variables correlated with changes in ED over time.…”

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Ethnic diversity and well-being

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This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by immigrants' nationalities, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany from 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German natives. Our finding is robust to alternative definitions of ethnic diversity and to the non-random selection of natives and immigrants into regions. The positive effect of ethnic diversity is stronger for immigrant groups that are culturally and economically closer to Germany. Consistent with this result, we document the existence of two mechanisms explaining the influence of ethnic diversity on well-being: productivityas captured by immigrants' skills and assimilation -and social capital -particularly in relation to the creation of a multicultural environment. JEL codes: C90, D63, J61

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“…Little is known yet on how psychological factors can moderate the effect of unemployment on happiness. One study found that conscientiousness is associated with a larger effect of unemployment on happiness [13].…”

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