Psychology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United Stated of America.
PLoS One. 2023 Mar 15;18(3):e0282437. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282437. eCollection 2023.
Urbanists have long been interested in understanding what makes people satisfied with their neighborhoods. However, relatively little is known about how residents' personality traits may affect their neighborhood satisfaction. In this paper, we explore the direct and indirect associations of personality traits with neighborhood satisfaction in a representative sample of adults in Michigan (USA). We find that each of the personality traits in the five factor model are associated with neighborhood satisfaction in the same way that they are known to be associated with subjective well-being. However, we fail to observe evidence that personality traits moderate the association between perceptions of neighborhoods and neighborhood satisfaction, or that personality's association with neighborhood satisfaction is mediated by neighborhood perceptions. We conclude that there is potential for drawing on theoretical and empirical developments in positive psychology for understanding neighborhood satisfaction, but observe that the underlying mechanisms for the association between personality and neighborhood satisfaction remain unknown.
城市学家一直以来都对理解是什么让人们对自己的社区感到满意感兴趣。然而，人们对于居民的人格特质如何影响他们对社区的满意度知之甚少。在本文中，我们在密歇根州（美国）的成年人代表性样本中探索了人格特质与社区满意度之间的直接和间接关联。我们发现，五因素模型中的每一种人格特质都与社区满意度有关，就像它们与主观幸福感有关一样。然而，我们没有观察到人格特质会调节对社区的看法和社区满意度之间的关联，或者人格特质与社区满意度之间的关联是由对社区的看法来介导的。我们的结论是，在理解社区满意度方面，可以借鉴积极心理学的理论和实证发展，但需要注意的是，人格与社区满意度之间关联的潜在机制尚不清楚。
