How to Pick the Right Sort of Vacation for You
Five takeaways:
- Psychologists generally define personality according to “Big Five” traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness toward others, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Consideration of one’s personality traits can predict vacation enjoyment, with “openness to experience” being a leading predictor of enjoyment.
- One researcher makes the distinction between allocentricity, which he defines as comfort with novelty and adventurousness, vs psychocentricity, which describes those more prone to stick to routine and avoid uncertainty.
- Scholars combine axes of allocentricity and psychocentricity to derive vacation personalities, which predict levels of stress on vacation.
- Researchers group vacationers into four types: The Spontaneous Socializer (an adventurer who loves new people), the Gregarious Planner (extroverted but not spontaneous), the Surprise Avoider (an introvert who is not spontaneous), and the Lone Wanderer (the introvert who loves adventure but wants to do everything alone).
- Consciousness of which type of vacation best fits your personality type can not only guarantee better trips – it can help you pick and choose experiences & create habits to make your life more enjoyable as a whole.
From Arthur C. Brooks at The Atlantic:
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