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Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance
Author(s) -
Fouarge Didier,
Özer Merve Nezihe,
Seegers Philipp
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12468
Subject(s) - openness to experience , conscientiousness , agreeableness , extraversion and introversion , big five personality traits , psychology , big five personality traits and culture , social psychology , hierarchical structure of the big five , personality , facet (psychology) , demographic economics , economics
This paper investigates the relationship between Big Five personality traits and individuals' intentions to migrate in countries that vary in their culture. Using data collected from university students in Germany, we find that extraversion and openness are positively associated with migration intentions, while agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability negatively relate to migration intentions. Openness positively and extraversion negatively relate to the willingness to move to culturally distant countries after controlling for geographic distance and economic differences between countries. Extravert and conscientious individuals are less likely to prefer linguistically distant countries contrary to agreeable individuals.