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| Title |
In the Shadow of Coal: How Large-Scale Industries Contributed to Present-Day Regional Differences in Personality and Well-Being
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| Published in |
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, November 2018
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| DOI | 10.1037/pspp0000175 |
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| Authors |
Martin Obschonka, Michael Stuetzer, Peter J. Rentfrow, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Max Satchell, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling |
| Abstract |
Recent research has identified regional variation of personality traits within countries but we know little about the underlying drivers of this variation. We propose that the Industrial Revolution, as a key era in the history of industrialized nations, has led to a persistent clustering of well-being outcomes and personality traits associated with psychological adversity via processes of selective migration and socialization. Analyzing data from England and Wales, we examine relationships between the historical employment share in large-scale coal-based industries (coal mining and steam-powered manufacturing industries that used this coal as fuel for their steam engines) and today's regional variation in personality and well-being. Even after controlling for possible historical confounds (historical energy supply, education, wealth, geology, climate, population density), we find that the historical local dominance of large-scale coal-based industries predicts today's markers of psychological adversity (lower Conscientiousness [and order facet scores], higher Neuroticism [and anxiety and depression facet scores], lower activity [an Extraversion facet], and lower life satisfaction and life expectancy). An instrumental variable analysis, using the historical location of coalfields, supports the causal assumption behind these effects (with the exception of life satisfaction). Further analyses focusing on mechanisms hint at the roles of selective migration and persisting economic hardship. Finally, a robustness check in the U.S. replicates the effect of the historical concentration of large-scale industries on today's levels of psychological adversity. Taken together, the results show how today's regional patterns of personality and well-being (which shape the future trajectories of these regions) may have their roots in major societal changes underway decades or centuries earlier. (PsycINFO Database Record |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 27 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 7% |
| Russia | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 20 | 74% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 26 | 96% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 178 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 178 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 18 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 8% |
| Researcher | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 34 | 19% |
| Unknown | 56 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 51 | 29% |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 10% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 14 | 8% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 8 | 4% |
| Engineering | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 21 | 12% |
| Unknown | 63 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 257. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2023.
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