Like personality, loneliness can be contradictory characteristics. In a longitudinal study across 15 years, Mund and Neyer (2016) reported that loneliness influenced later neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness. In a multiple cross- section studies, loneliness has been found to be connected to neuroticism and not connected with extraversion. The Big Five personality demonstrate that loneliness is hereditary. Throughout three different measures, heritability estimate for 50% for agreeableness to 58% neuroticism depending on environmental effects. Neuroticism had the strongest phenotypic, genetic and environmental correlations with loneliness.
On the other hand, openness had a small positive correlation with loneliness but was significant enough to covariance with the other four personality scores. Openness had a better connection with genetics vs. the environment correlation. It is possible that people who are open are more aware of are more sensitive to feeling alone. However, lonely people can show more of an interest with aesthetic individuals. Which could lead to a new and further study. If lonely people are treated more negatively by others than the situation may increase to having a negative relationship with loneliness and agreeableness.
While these studies were replicated, conscientiousness had a negative phenotypic, genetic, and unique environmental correlation with loneliness. However, researchers Flett et. al (2016) could not find a correlation between loneliness and need for achievement, a trait that usually correlates strongly with conscientiousness facet of self-discipline. Conscientious people usually are perceived positively with others as being on time for events or gatherings. The positive interactions with others reduces loneliness. Contrarily, the residual correlation between conscientiousness
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interactions with others thereby reducing loneliness. Alternatively, because the residual correlation between conscientiousness and loneliness was nonsignificant, the observed correlations may be due to common variance with neuroticism or extraversion.
Future research will be able to indicate the relationships found in the current study by examining the different types of loneliness. At a phenotypic level, loneliness has a significant positive correlation with neuroticism and openness. Loneliness also had a negative correlation with agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion. Personality and loneliness can be inherited and has a positive genetic correlation.
While reading this article I was impressed by the significance of the relationship between loneliness and neuroticism. I was also impressed to know that openness and loneliness had a relation. I also have believed that if a person was lonely that means they were an introvert but I am more and more proven wrong on that idea. A lonely person likes to be surrounded by extraverts as a sense of belonging. A person who is more open is usually a more positive person. These types of people can also hold the personality characteristic conscientious.
These people usually are perceived positively with others as being on time for events or gatherings. They are more self-disciplined and feel the need to achieve. Though the article held many ideas that were surprising, the researchers did mention many times that further studies would have to be conducted on order to get a more clear picture of loneliness and personality which I was bummed about. I like being presented all the information and then see where we can take the study from a certain point. This study had been replicated a few times before and it still seems like the study has not traveled much further into research. However, I was overall pleased with the article.
