Social Status and Personality Traits

Alessandro Bucciol, Barbara Cavasso (barbaracavasso@gmail.com) and Luca Zarri

No 21/2014, Working Papers from University of Verona, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this study we provide direct evidence on the relationship between social status and personality traits. Using survey data from the 2006-2012 waves of the HRS, we show that individuals’ self-perceived social status is associated with all the “Big Five” personality traits, after controlling for observable characteristics that arguably reflect one’s actual status. We also construct an objective status measure that in turn is influenced by personality traits. Objectively measured status is positively but not highly correlated with its subjective counterpart and, when incorporated in a regression specification, still leaves room for direct effects of personality traits on status perception.

Keywords: Subjective Social Status; Objectively Measured Social Status; Personality Traits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D03 I31 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2014-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-neu and nep-soc
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