TY - JOUR
T1 - Neighbourhood deprivation and the Big Five personality traits
T2 - associations with adolescent problem behaviour and educational attainment
AU - Nieuwenhuis, Jaap
AU - Kleinepier, Tom
AU - Janssen, Heleen
AU - van Ham, Maarten
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - ALSPAC
KW - Big five personality traits
KW - Educational attainment
KW - Neighbourhood deprivation
KW - Problem behaviour
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111749871&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10901-021-09876-3
DO - 10.1007/s10901-021-09876-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111749871
SN - 1566-4910
VL - 36
SP - 943
EP - 963
JO - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
JF - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
IS - 3
ER -