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This Personality Trait Is Enhanced By Education
How higher education changes your personality.
How higher education changes your personality.
University education has a positive effect on people’s personalities, recent research finds.
People generally become more extraverted after completing higher education.
The personalities of students from poorer backgrounds benefit even more from attending university.
Along with increased extraversion, these students become more agreeable.
Extraversion and agreeableness are two of the five major aspects of personality.
The other three are openness to experience, neuroticism and conscientiousness.
The conclusions come from a study of 575 adolescents who were given personality tests and followed up 8 years later.
The authors think these changes in personality are down to university life, rather than the teaching.
Dr Sonja Kassenboehmer, the study’s first author, said:
“We see quite clearly that students’ personalities change when they go to university.
Universities provide an intensive new learning and social environment for adolescents, so it is not surprising that this experience could impact on students’ personality.
It is good news that universities not only seem to teach subject-specific skills, but also seem to succeed in shaping skills valued by employers and society.”
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The study was published in the journal Oxford Economic Papers (Kassenboehmer et al., 2018).
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2 Personality Traits Linked To Stockpiling Toilet Paper
The reason people stockpiled toilet paper in the pandemic.
The reason people stockpiled toilet paper in the pandemic.
Conscientious and emotional people were the most likely to stockpile toilet paper in March 2020, a new study finds.
Despite calls from governments around the world to avoid panic buying, sales of toilet paper went up 700 percent in response to the pandemic.
But why toilet paper?
Apparently, people feel safer with more toilet paper in the house.
The study’s authors write:
“…people experience an increased sensitivity to disgust in times of a spreading disease and toilet paper is hypothesized to serve as a symbol of safety alleviating the perceived threat.
Consequently, stockpiling toilet paper during the Covid-19 pandemic should be observed primarily among those who feel particularly threatened by the virus.”
The study included 966 people in 22 countries who were given personality tests and asked about their toilet paper consumption in recent weeks.
The results showed that people who felt most threatened by the pandemic were more likely to stockpile toilet paper.
High emotionality — often known as neuroticism — was the personality trait that most strongly predicted toilet paper stockpiling.
Emotional people are those who tend to worry and feel more anxious.
The other personality trait linked to stockpiling toilet paper was conscientiousness.
People who are conscientious tend to be perfectionist, hard workers who prefer planning ahead.
The study also found that older people and Americans were more prone to stockpiling than the young and European.
Although stockpiling has been labelled selfish, the threat that people faced has a strong effect, the authors write:
“Although stockpiling as a result of perceived threat might be considered selfish by some, it is important to note that it would not necessarily reflect a dispositional lack of prosociality.
Instead, even the most humble and moral individuals might stockpile toilet paper as long as they feel sufficiently threatened by the pandemic.”
The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE (Garbe et al., 2020).
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