Unveiling the Impact of Personality in Lifestyle Solidarity: An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Dispositional Optimism and Risk Orientation

IF 4 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of the Knowledge Economy Pub Date : 2024-01-13 DOI:10.1007/s13132-023-01702-1

Micaela Pinho, Sofia Gomes

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This paper explores the influence of the personality traits of dispositional optimism and risk orientation on Portuguese citizens’ preferences for lifestyle solidarity, on their lifestyle and the relationship between both personality traits. An online questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 584 Portuguese citizens. The quantitative analysis was performed through the Partial Least Square (PLS) model. The PLS explored the relationships between the constructs of dispositional optimism, risk preferences, own lifestyle and lifestyle solidarity. Linear regression analysis was also performed to identify the associations between respondents’ sociodemographic and economic characteristics and the above constructs. In general, respondents revealed high levels of lifestyle solidarity. Notwithstanding, we also found that: (i) while optimists and pessimists revealed less lifestyle solidarity, risk-prone revealed higher; (ii) while optimists were more prevention-orientation with their health behaviours, risk-seekers were less; (iii) more caregivers with their own lifestyles have less lifestyle solidarity, and (iv) while optimists were more risk-acceptant, pessimists were more risk-averse. This study presents the first evidence of how dispositional optimism and risk orientation affect the support of lifestyle solidarity and own lifestyles.

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揭示生活方式团结中人格的影响：关于倾向性乐观主义和风险取向影响的探索性研究

本文探讨了处置性乐观和风险取向这两种人格特质对葡萄牙公民生活方式团结偏好的影响，以及这两种人格特质对其生活方式的影响和这两种人格特质之间的关系。本文采用在线问卷调查的方式收集了 584 位葡萄牙公民的数据。定量分析通过偏最小平方（PLS）模型进行。偏最小二乘法模型探讨了性格乐观、风险偏好、自身生活方式和生活方式团结等建构之间的关系。此外，还进行了线性回归分析，以确定受访者的社会人口和经济特征与上述结构之间的关联。总体而言，受访者的生活方式团结程度较高。尽管如此，我们还发现(i) 乐观主义者和悲观主义者的生活方式团结程度较低，而风险易感者的团结程度较高；(ii) 乐观主义者的健康行为更注重预防，而风险易感者的健康行为更注重预防；(iii) 更多照顾自己生活方式的人的生活方式团结程度较低；(iv) 乐观主义者的风险接受程度较高，而悲观主义者的风险规避程度较高。本研究首次证明了倾向性乐观和风险取向如何影响对生活方式团结和自身生活方式的支持。

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Journal of the Knowledge Economy ECONOMICS-

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5.90

自引率

27.30%

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228

期刊介绍： In the context of rapid globalization and technological capacity, the world’s economies today are driven increasingly by knowledge—the expertise, skills, experience, education, understanding, awareness, perception, and other qualities required to communicate, interpret, and analyze information. New wealth is created by the application of knowledge to improve productivity—and to create new products, services, systems, and process (i.e., to innovate). The Journal of the Knowledge Economy focuses on the dynamics of the knowledge-based economy, with an emphasis on the role of knowledge creation, diffusion, and application across three economic levels: (1) the systemic ''meta'' or ''macro''-level, (2) the organizational ''meso''-level, and (3) the individual ''micro''-level. The journal incorporates insights from the fields of economics, management, law, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and political science to shed new light on the evolving role of knowledge, with a particular emphasis on how innovation can be leveraged to provide solutions to complex problems and issues, including global crises in environmental sustainability, education, and economic development. Articles emphasize empirical studies, underscoring a comparative approach, and, to a lesser extent, case studies and theoretical articles. The journal balances practice/application and theory/concepts.