Neighbourhood deprivation and the Big Five personality traits : associations with adolescent problem behaviour and educational attainment
Abstract
We studied the relation between cumulative exposure to neighbourhood deprivation and adolescents’ Big Five personality traits, and the moderating role of personality in the relation between neighbourhood deprivation and the development of problem behaviour and educational attainment. We studied 5365 British adolescents from ages 10 to 16, with neighbourhood information from birth onwards. Extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, and openness to experience moderated the relation between deprivation and problem behaviour. For educational attainment, only extraversion was a moderator. This means that higher values on personality traits were related to weaker relations between neighbourhood deprivation and problem behaviour and educational attainment. The results showed the importance of taking into account adolescents’ personality when assessing developmental outcomes in relation to neighbourhood deprivation.
Citation
Nieuwenhuis , J , Kleinepier , T , Janssen , H & van Ham , M 2021 , ' Neighbourhood deprivation and the Big Five personality traits : associations with adolescent problem behaviour and educational attainment ' , Journal of Housing and the Built Environment , vol. First Online . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-021-09876-3
Publication
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1566-4910Type
Journal article
Description
Funding: The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome (Grant ref: 102215/2/13/2) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. A comprehensive list of grants funding is available on the ALSPAC website. This research was specifically funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects).Collections
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