Why are well-adjusted people seen more accurately? The role of personality-behavior congruence in naturalistic social settings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6203918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren J Human (0000-0001-8384-2075, McGill University), Marie-Catherine Mignault (0000-0001-5090-4217, McGill University), Jeremy C Biesanz (0000-0003-1698-3630, University of British Columbia), Katherine H Rogers (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 465-482 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspp0000193 |
| PMID | 30869987 |
| OpenAlex | W2910761931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
Expressive accuracy, being viewed in line with one's unique, distinctive personality traits, is emerging as an important individual difference that is strongly linked to psychological well-being. Yet little is known about what underlies expressive accuracy and its associations with well-being. The current studies examined whether personality-behavior congruence, the tendency to behave in line with one's distinctive personality trait profile, contributes to the links between well-being and expressive accuracy with new acquaintances (Unique perceiver-target pairs: Study 1: N = 437; Study 2: N = 874), by assessing congruence in naturalistic situations, including in a series of getting-acquainted interactions (Study 1; Ntargets = 77; Mdn Interactions: 7) and social situations in daily life over a 2-week period (Study 2; Ntargets = 146; MdnAssessments: 49). Across studies, we found that greater well-being predicted greater congruence, in both naturalistic social interactions and in daily life, which in turn contributed to greater expressive accuracy in getting-acquainted interactions. Overall, the current studies demonstrate the important role that congruence plays in expressive accuracy, helping to explain why well-adjusted individuals are seen more accurately. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Big Five personality traits · Congruence (geometry) · Developmental psychology · MEDLINE · Naturalism · Perception · Personality · PsycINFO · Social perception · Social relation · Trait · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Mental Health Research Topics · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |