Continuing our series from last Sunday, below we include the world map for Extraversion based on myPersonality data. Dark red and a high rank denotes a high Extraversion trait score. A high extraversion score indicates that citizens consider themselves outgoing and most comfortable around other people. Low extraversion scores indicate that they consider themselves more content with their own company.
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There are a cluster of countries in and around the Balkans that rate themselves as the most outgoing, whereas east and south-east Asians describe themselves as the most introverted.
It’s worth noting that averaging across a large country may mask variations between geographical areas within it. For example, myPersonality has already shown that aggregate personalities in the United States differ by State. If the most extraverted and least extraverted State within America were included on this map as countries, then the most extraverted State, Mississippi, would be ranked 119/123 and the least extraverted State, Delaware, would be ranked 28/123.
The other 3 traits will follow in the coming weeks!
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We used our huge personality database to look at differences between the ‘average’ personality in countries across the world. These results are already used in our Personality Matches feature which finds the country whose personality profile matches yours the closest.
Below we have mapped the Openness ranks of the 121 countries that we had sufficient data for. Dark blue and a high rank denotes a high Openness trait score.
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A couple of things we noticed were the very high openness scores across almost all of Europe, including Eastern Europe, with the notable exception of the UK and Ireland who consider themselves far more traditional. The Middle East is another area whose inhabitants put more emphasis on traditional values.
We will post another map each upcoming Sunday for the other 4 traits.
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February 11th, 2009
David
With Valentines Day coming up, perhaps you’re wondering whether couples really are happier than single people. myPersonality had a look at the relationship between Facebook Relationship Status and Life Satisfaction. Unfortunately for the single people out there, those smug couples you see really are smug for a good reason – they do tend to be happier than single people.
As can be seen in the below graph, the happiest people are those that are married, followed by those that are engaged. Surprisingly, people who say that their relationship is “complicated” are just as satisfied as single people. That suggests that even if a relationship goes wrong, it won’t be any worse than not having one at all. So our advice is that if you’re interested in someone, tell them! What’s to lose? However, there’s no point just ringing up that person you spent a drunken night with last week, as being in an open relationship also won’t improve your life satisfaction.
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myPersonality has drawn maps of how the personalities of different states in the US differ. The most friendly and outgoing Americans are in the deep south, people on the east of America are less relaxed than people on the west, and the most trusting people are in the north western states.
myPersonality has also created a new feature that compares your personality to the personalities of each US State, and tells you which one is closest. Take myPersonality’s Big Five questionnaire to find out which state reflects your personality.
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myPersonality added the Satisfaction with Life Scale earlier this summer in collaboration with a project that Dr Richard Tunney was running for the UK National Lottery examining the connection between the number and quality of friendships that people have and their satisfaction with life. In myPersonality, the Scale allows you to quantify how happy they are with your life, to compare this to other people including your friends and the general population, and then suggests areas that research has suggested to concentrate on in order to improve your score.
The results of the research project (from other sources as well as myPersonality) have been released today, which show that having 10 or more old friends is more likely to give you a higher satisfaction with life score, but that increasing this number is not so likely to help. This suggests that people should spend time cultivating their oldest and closest friendships.
There is coverage of this in various news outlets including: The Daily Mail, The Sun, PhysOrg.com
