How Personality Shapes Study Location Choices

Autor/in	Weisser, Reinhard A.
Titel	How Personality Shapes Study Location Choices
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 61 (2020) 1, S.88-116 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-019-09550-2
Schlagwörter	College Choice; Personality Traits; Decision Making; Correlation; Academic Achievement; Student Recruitment; Undergraduate Students; Social Influences; School Location; Labor Market; Student Attitudes; Graduation; Employment Opportunities; Student Characteristics; Preferences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienortwahl; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Korrelation; Schulleistung; Sozialer Einfluss; Schulgelände; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Schülerverhalten; Abschluss; Graduierung; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance
Abstract	In this paper I investigate undergraduate students' discrete location choices in presence of a plethora of potential destinations and psychic costs. I demonstrate how enrolment into institutions of tertiary education is influenced by personality and social preferences. More importantly, these individual traits are found to affect the valuation of location-specific conditions in alternative study locations. Eventually, the relevance of location attributes, such as urban or labour market characteristics, varies substantially with respect to distance and individuals' personality. This has direct implications for student recruitment, since prospective students display distinct geographic sorting patterns along these traits: students featuring higher levels of patience integrate post-graduation opportunities into their decision-making. As a consequence, institutions in economically less prosperous regions might attract a specific subset of the overall student population, which might also have repercussions on student performance. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01