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PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 5-21Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1177/1745691609356781
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residential mobility; the self; social relations; well-being
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Residential mobility is an increasingly important personal and societal issue in both the United States and the world in general. However, it has received relatively limited attention in psychological theorizing and research. This article demonstrates the importance of residential mobility in understanding the self, social relationships, and well-being. Recent research has shown that residential mobility (number of moves for an individual or percentage having moved recently for a neighborhood) is associated with the primacy of the personal over the collective self. It is also associated with duty-free friendships and group memberships rather than obligatory friendships and group memberships. Overall, residential mobility is associated with lower levels of wellbeing at the individual level of analysis. Finally, residential mobility is associated with personal forms of subjective well-being (based on self-esteem, the verification of the personal self) as opposed to interpersonal forms of subjective well-being (based on social support, the verification of the collective selves). In short, residential mobility is a powerful, parsimonious explanatory construct in the self, social relationships, and subjective well-being and may be a key to understanding the future of mind and behavior in the increasingly mobile world.
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