Does your personality influence where you live and your life post-pandemic? swhitbo explains
Testing the Introversion-Spatial Preference Relationship
Using a field study approach, the authors first assessed where people differing in personality went when given free choice and secondly, whether the personalities of people the researchers found sitting in different types of spaces varied systematically based on the introversion-extraversion dimension. If personality matters when it comes to choosing where to go within a given space, introverts should both choose and be found in the ones that give them the opportunity to think, not speak.
As the authors predicted, and after controlling for factors such as weather and the four other Five Factor personality traits, people higher in extraversion indeed spent their free time in “exciting” locations and less time in those that were “secluded.” However, the weather rained for the majority of data collection points, meaning that the outside conditions limited the extent to which participants were likely to wander around outdoors.
After collapsing the 32 sites into categories based on distance from the center of campus and degree of seclusion, the authors once again showed the role of personality as a factor in predicting preferred geographic locations. Participants higher in extraversion were the ones that researchers encountered in central, less secluded spots on campus. Those high in introversion, by contrast, set themselves up in quieter spaces away from the campus hub.
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