Time is a finite resource, strictly limited to 24 hours a day. How people spend these resources is in many ways determined by necessities and external constraints, yet research on personality-situation transactions shows that people also choose their environments to resonate with their personality. This finding implies that daily time use and individual traits should be correlated. However, few studies have linked modern methods for assessing time use to individual differences in personality traits. In this study, we investigate correlations between the Big Five traits and time spent on various daily activities in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), including 5,456 days in the lives of 1,364 individuals. Results converged towards previously reported personality-situation transactions. For example, extraversion predicted whether or not respondents reported meeting their friends, whereas openness was correlated negatively with watching TV. Effects were modest in size, ranging from r ≈ .10 to .25 Taking together, our findings corroborate the notion that our personality is robustly associated with the way we spend our lives.

中文翻译：

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只有这么多时间：德国代表性小组中性格与日常时间使用之间的相关性。


时间是有限的资源，每天严格限制在 24 小时内。人们如何使用这些资源在很多方面是由必需品和外部约束决定的，但对个性情境交易的研究表明，人们也会选择与他们的个性产生共鸣的环境。这一发现意味着日常时间使用和个人特征应该是相关的。然而，很少有研究将评估时间使用的现代方法与人格特质的个体差异联系起来。在这项研究中，我们调查了德国社会经济小组 (SOEP) 中的“大五”特征与各种日常活动所花费的时间之间的相关性，其中包括 1,364 人生活中的 5,456 天。结果与之前报告的性格情境交易趋于一致。例如，外向性可以预测受访者是否报告会见朋友，而开放性则与看电视呈负相关。影响的大小适中，范围从 r ≈ .10 到 0.25 总而言之，我们的研究结果证实了这样的观点：我们的性格与我们的生活方式密切相关。