TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality and migration in Japan
T2 - Examining the tendency of extroverted and open people to migrate to Tokyo
AU - Yoshino, Shinya
AU - Oshio, Atsushi
N1 - Funding Information:
The dataset in Study 2 was offered by the NTT DATA Institute of Management Consulting, Inc. The authors are grateful to this corporation. Previous studies using this dataset were posted on the Japanese website (https://www.nttdata-strategy.com/dcs/news/index.html). This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. The first author conceived the study design, analyzed the data, and wrote the first manuscript. The second author revised the manuscript and supervised the overall project. Both authors have discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - This study examined the relationship between personality traits and selective migration to the Tokyo metropolitan area, to explain the high extraversion and openness levels among urban residents. In Study 1, 247 undergraduates responded to a questionnaire encompassing a Big Five personality trait scale and their experience of moving to Tokyo to enroll in their university. Study 2 examined the relationship between personality traits and the experience of migration to the Tokyo metropolitan area using a large dataset of 18,665 Japanese adults. People who moved to the Tokyo metropolitan area from local areas reported higher openness levels. People who had lived in the Tokyo metropolitan area for a long time demonstrated as generally extroverted as people who moved there.
AB - This study examined the relationship between personality traits and selective migration to the Tokyo metropolitan area, to explain the high extraversion and openness levels among urban residents. In Study 1, 247 undergraduates responded to a questionnaire encompassing a Big Five personality trait scale and their experience of moving to Tokyo to enroll in their university. Study 2 examined the relationship between personality traits and the experience of migration to the Tokyo metropolitan area using a large dataset of 18,665 Japanese adults. People who moved to the Tokyo metropolitan area from local areas reported higher openness levels. People who had lived in the Tokyo metropolitan area for a long time demonstrated as generally extroverted as people who moved there.
KW - Big Five personality
KW - Geographical difference in personality
KW - Japan
KW - Selective migration
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104168
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104168
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119905984
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 96
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
M1 - 104168
ER -