Agreeableness World Map
Our final world trait map based on myPersonality data is for aggregate Agreeableness. Agreeableness can broadly be characterised as co-operative (high Agreeableness, high rank and dark orange on the map) vs. competitive (low Agreeableness, low rank and light orange on the map). myPersonality has already shown that high Agreeableness is associated with studying more social majors like massage therapy, sociology, and elementary education, whereas low Agreeableness is associated with studying more combative majors such as law, international relations and political science (see our Personality Matches feature to see which college major is closest to your personality).
Agreeableness shows the most clear geographical distinction out of the five traits, although perhaps not in the direction that one would expect. The most competitive area is Central and Eastern Europe, followed by South America. South East Asia has average to high Agreeableness scores, and the most co-operative countries are in North America and Africa.
That concludes our aggregate trait world mapping series, we hope you found it interesting and surprising.
Method & Results
Data from 484,834 myPersonality users who had taken 20 or more questions from the Big Five measure make up these results, from across 121 countries in the world. We set the criterion for inclusion at just 45 users, so there are actually 26 countries with fewer than 100 participants. This is not enough users to come to a reliable conclusion about the personality profile of a whole country, however, it was decided that it would be most interesting to show the breadth of countries on this map so that geographical areas of high and low scores could be seen.
Another caveat about making conclusions about a single country is that myPersonality’s tests are currently only available in English. So it is quite possible that people in a country who can read English and have internet access to use Facebook are not representative of other people in that country.
We’d like to thank Ammap who provided the mapping feature we have used.
Hello,
I am a PhD student at the University of South Florida, Counselor Education. I am very interested in doing psychological research on Facebook and was wondering if you would be so kind as to direct me to the resources you used. I am particularly interested in specific concerns with the logistics of using Facebook and how that related to IRB specifications, for example how you were able to program the quiz to get informed consent. I imagine you used Facebook’s programming language to do this rather than one of their canned applications to create a quiz. Any suggestions you can provide will be appreciated.
I will also post a link to your study on my wall.
Thank you,
Barbara LoFrisco
counselorbarb@earthlink.net