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Person-Culture Personality Fit: Dispositional Traits and Cultural Context Explain Country-Level Personality Profile Conformity
University of Georgia, Athens, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6860-448X
University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Educational Sciences and Mathematics. Stockholm University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7164-0924
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2023 (English)In: Social Psychology and Personality Science, ISSN 1948-5506, E-ISSN 1948-5514, Vol. 14, no 3, p. 275-285Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In general, people are influenced by the standards set forth by groups of others; however, the levels of such conformity vary between people and across cultures. Here, we investigated factors related to country-level personality profile conformity (i.e., person-culture personality fit) across ∼5.9 million participants, residing in 57 different countries. We examined how each of the Big Five personality traits and cultural tightness are associated with variation in person-culture personality fit. We found that scoring higher in Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness and residing in a tight cultural context explains increased personality profile conformity, while scoring higher in Openness and Neuroticism and residing in a loose cultural context explains lower personality profile conformity. Furthermore, we found that Openness and Extraversion interact with cultural context to predict levels of personality profile conformity. These findings reveal that both dispositional and cultural factors correspond to the tendency to conform to country-level norms.

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SAGE Publications , 2023. Vol. 14, no 3, p. 275-285
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-59997DOI: 10.1177/19485506221100954ISI: 000822226600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85133366567OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-59997DiVA, id: diva2:1698016
Available from: 2022-09-22 Created: 2022-09-22 Last updated: 2025-10-10Bibliographically approved

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