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Association of life history strategy and mate retention behavior in men and women Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Sepide Pazhouhi, Ray Garza, Farid Pazhoohi
From an evolutionary perspective, both men and women use a variety of guarding tactics to keep their romantic partners in the relationship. For men, these benefits increase paternity certainty, while for women, they guarantee male investment in the woman and her children. The current research aimed to explore the association between life history strategy (LHS) and mate retention behaviors in men and
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Support for redistribution is shaped by motives of egalitarian division and coercive redistribution Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Chien-An Lin, Timothy C. Bates
The three-player evolutionary model of support for redistribution is compatible with a fairness motive; however, existing research has found near-zero effects of fairness. Here we propose an egalitarian division fairness motive, solving the problem of reward for collaboration and impacting support for redistribution. Study 1 ( = 403) showed egalitarian division fairness had additional predictive power
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The genetics of intelligence and social outcomes in a Hungarian twin sample Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Péter P. Ujma, Márton Piroska, Helga Szabó, Dóra Mladoneczki-Leszkó, Ádám Domonkos Tárnoki, Dávid László Tárnoki
Most previous research found that within-family resemblance on social outcomes and intelligence is mostly due to genetic factors with a limited role of the shared environment, with the exception of educational attainment. Hypotheses about a gene-environment interaction with SES, with a presumably smaller role of genetic factors in families with low social status, have been only partially confirmed
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Plate, glass, and social class: How dominance and prestige orientation shape food preferences Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Michał Folwarczny, R.G. Vishnu Menon, Tobias Otterbring
Studies suggest that individuals may display their food preferences as vehicles for seeking status: a universal motive across cultures. According to the dual model of status-seeking, individuals attain higher status either through dominance, which involves evoking fear and intimidation, or through prestige, which is achieved by offering valued skills, knowledge, and other behaviors that are seen as
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Multimodal assessment of social anxiety among international students Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Csongor István Szepesi, Petra Böszörményi-Zelizi, Anita Szemán-Nagy, Mihály Soós, Nóra Horváth, Viktor Rekenyi, Salome Zurashvili, László Róbert Kolozsvári
The present study examined Social Anxiety (SA) through the utilization of multiple measures and experimental paradigms. Participants were categorized using the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (threshold: 30). The Facial Test assessed emotional facial recognition, and eye-tracking technology examined visual attention biases during emotion identification. The Social Cognitions Questionnaire was administered
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Measurement precision and user experience with adaptive versus non-adaptive psychometric tests Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Hanif Akhtar, Kristof Kovacs
Research on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) has provided evidence of the psychometric advantages of CAT over traditional fixed-item tests (FIT). However, evidence on test-taking experience is limited. This study investigated the psychometric and psychological impacts of CAT in the context of a multidimensional fluid reasoning test. In an online experimental study, we tested 286 participants, randomly
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Downscaling with benefits: A road forward for capturing intra-individual variations in personality Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Anne-Kathrin Schock, Tobias Hausinger, Belinda Pletzer
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Masking and cancelation effects of HEXACO domains and facets in relation to work- and study-related burnout Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Ard J. Barends, Lena Gierse, Reinout E. de Vries
Prior research has shown substantial relations between personality traits and burnout. However, this research has mainly focused on the relations with Big Five personality domains and therefore little is known regarding the relations with the HEXACO personality framework that includes a different conceptualization of affective traits (e.g., emotionality). Moreover, even less is known about the relations
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Embracing the enhanced self now and in the future: The impact of temporal focus, age, and sex on cyborg products use intention Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Patrick Reichel, Carmen T. Bassler, Matthias Spörrle
This study examines the individual intention to use implant and wearable technologies as a function of demographics and personality characteristics. Inter-individually differing use intentions towards such disruptive and potentially high-impact innovations could further exacerbate social disparities. This cross-sectional non-experimental study ( = 586) examines participants' willingness to use cyborg
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Narcissism and couple relationship satisfaction: The mediating roles of accepting differences and conflict resolution strategies Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Ah Young Lim
This study explored the mediating effects of accepting differences and conflict resolution strategies on the relationship between narcissism and couple relationship satisfaction. Data from 300 individuals, who were either currently in a relationship or had dating experience, were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results showed that vulnerable and grandiose narcissism did not have a
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The dark core of personality predicts mate poaching, jealousy, sociosexual orientation, ambivalent sexism, and attitudes toward sexual harassment Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Katrina Craib, Sharon Patterson, Sylvain Laborde, Mark S. Allen
Personality traits that reflect antagonistic, malevolent or socially aversive behaviours (the dark core), are predicted to have an important role in sexual attitudes and behaviour. This study sought to test whether dark personality traits relate to self-reported mate poaching, romantic jealousy, sociosexual orientation, hostile and benevolent sexism, and attitudes toward sexual harassment. In total
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Antecedents and consequences of FoMO for neuroticism, openness and social influence: Investigating the moderating effect Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Mustafa Saritepeci, Muhammed Furkan Kurnaz
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), fueled by the fear that missing out on something will negatively affect one's happiness, is directly related to the social environment. This study examines the antecedents and consequences of FoMO. We also examined the moderating effect of others' social media statuses or stories checking frequency (OSMSSCF) on the relationship of social learning-social proof (SL-SP) and
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Investigating the overlapping concepts of the Dark Core and the General Factor of Personality Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Cody E. Harrell, Gary N. Burns, Michael C. King, William B. Ridgway, Kushal Vangara, Zachary B. Hesson, Vanessa A. Edkins, Charles A. Morgan III
The current study explored the relationship between the Dark Core of personality and the General Factor of Personality (GFP), employing two samples. Sample 1 included 1066 adults from three U.S. universities, assessed with the HEXACO-100 and Short Dark Triad, while Sample 2 comprised 1052 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, evaluated with Dark Triad measures and the IPIP-NEO-120. We used confirmatory factor
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Approaching the gateway to doping hypothesis through personality analysis Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Robin Schrödter, Katrin Heyers, Marlies Pinnow
The relation between dark personality traits and fraudulent behaviour like doping in sports is empirically well established. However, the factors that lead athletes to start using illegal substances are less known. The gateway to doping hypothesis posits that widespread dietary supplement usage among athletes could potentially desensitise them, increasing the inclination towards doping use. To examine
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Exact and approximate calculation and uncertain decision-making in children and adults: Evidence from fuzzy trace theory Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Danfeng Li, Yuteng Li, Shuyi Gao, Yunfeng He
The present study aimed to explore the role of exact and approximate calculation in predicting uncertain decision-making in children and emerging adults and the influence of intelligence on their uncertain decision-making was simultaneously considered. In the first study, forty emerging adults and fifty-four typically developing (TD) children completed the uncertain decision-making task—Iowa Gambling
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Unveiling the fragile façade: A scoping review and meta-analysis of the Vulnerable Dark Triad Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Bruno Bonfá-Araujo, Julie Aitken Schermer
The Vulnerable Dark Triad (secondary psychopathy, vulnerable narcissism, and borderline personality) was proposed in 2010 as a counterpart of the Dark Triad and combines socially undesirable behaviors with emotionally vulnerable traits. Despite being proposed more than a decade ago, no study (to our knowledge) has sought to map the existing evidence. Thus, we performed a scoping review with a meta-analysis
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The relationship between smartphone addiction and procrastination among students: A systematic review and meta-analysis Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Guo Chen, Chunwei Lyu
Despite procrastination becoming an increasingly prevalent issue in society, its underlying causes remain unclear. Smartphone ubiquity has increased scrutiny of their potential role in exacerbating procrastination. While past empirical research has offered mixed findings regarding the link between smartphone addiction and procrastination, this study sought to bring clarity to the discourse. This study
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The development of ability emotional intelligence during adolescence Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Alberto Megías-Robles, María José Gutiérrez-Cobo, Pablo Fernández-Berrocal, Raquel Gómez-Leal, Rosario Cabello
This study aimed to examine the development of ability emotional intelligence (EI) in the adolescent population with a Spanish performance-based instrument of EI: Botín Foundation's Emotional Intelligence Test for Adolescents (TIEFBA), which assesses the respondent's ability to solve emotional problems for each of the four emotional skills of the Mayer and Salovey EI model. With a large cross-sectional
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Predicting job satisfaction: Findings from the British Cohort Study Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Adrian Furnham, Helen Cheng
This study examines factors influencing adult job satisfaction (JS) measured at age 42 years, using a large and nationally representative dataset of 4593 adults (48.5 % females) in the UK. Correlational analysis showed that parental social status measures (at birth), childhood intelligence (at age 10), teenage internal locus of control (at age 16), adult-achieved education (at ages 34) and occupation
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Dark personality de facto among students: A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Parikshit Joshi, Garima Joshi, Anshu Singh
Scholarly work on student dark personality (SDP) traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism) has increased substantially in the last decade. To understand the multi-natured construct SDP and its tendency to influence student personality, this study included two established approaches – bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review – to analyze, synthesise, and summarize
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How safe are we? Introducing the multidimensional model of perceived personal safety Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Stylianos Syropoulos, Bernhard Leidner, Evelyn Mercado, Mengyao Li, Sophie Cros, Angel Gómez, Aphrodite Baka, Peggy Chekroun, Joshua Rottman
Investigations of individual differences in how safe people feel in their social lives have typically used single-item measures or indirect measures. To examine the multifaceted nature of perceived personal safety more comprehensively, we introduce a novel measurement model of perceived personal safety, validated over the course of 8 studies (5 main and 3 supplementary studies; total = 4390). Three
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Trait emotional intelligence questionnaire short form (teique-sf): Reliability generalization meta-analysis Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ali Orhan
This reliability generalization study aimed to calculate the overall alpha values of the total Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short Form (TEIQue–SF) and its subscales scores and to examine the possible moderator variables that may be effective on the variability in the alpha values of the TEIQue–SF. This RG study was conducted with 472 alpha values from 426 unique studies for total TEIQue–SF
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Trait emotional intelligence revisited: Development and validation of a short measure for personal intelligence Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Samantha M. Van Rens, Colin T. Henning, A. Geoffrey Crane, James D.A. Parker
This paper introduces an expanded Trait EI model to address deficiencies in existing models, aiming for a more comprehensive understanding of the affective dimensions of personality. The new model of Personal Intelligence (PI) incorporates emotional, social, and motivational intelligence as a set of interconnected non-cognitive competencies. In line with this new model, the present study sought to
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Aiming (too) high: Narcissism and unrealistic goal setting Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Ellen F. Finch, Sarah E. Kalinowski, Daniel L. Schacter, Jill M. Hooley
It is well established that people scoring high in narcissism fantasize about a grandiose future. However, little research has examined whether narcissism is associated with actually unrealistic, grandiose future goals for oneself. In the present study, we pool three independent adult samples (total = 482) to evaluate the relationship between three dimensions of narcissism (agentic extraversion, antagonism
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Shedding a light on authenticity in high dark trait individuals: A morally grey territory? Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Andreea A. Bulbuc, Laura Visu-Petra
Pursuing personal goals above communally shared interests is incompatible with socially sanctioned norms yet represents the hallmark of high levels of dark traits (DT; narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy). One yet unaddressed question is how this conflict affects subjective authenticity, traditionally defined as a natural tendency to perceive and present oneself as genuine rather than contrived
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The role of trait mindfulness in shaping the perception of stress, including its role as a moderator or mediator of the effects of personality Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Leanne Duggan, Jack Harvey, Kerrin Ford, Christopher Mesagno
Stress reduction techniques, such as mindfulness, have been gaining popularity over the last few decades with research focus shifting toward understanding the factors that contribute to why certain individuals are more likely to benefit from stress reduction techniques compared to others. Mindfulness and personality traits are two factors that have been examined to help explain some of the individual
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Belief in conspiracy theories that differ in evil intentions: Correlations with anger and other traits Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Eddie Harmon-Jones, Kinga Szymaniak, Gabriel Sebban, Cindy Harmon-Jones
The present research extended past correlational research (Harmon-Jones & Szymaniak, 2023) by manipulating the mediator – evil perceptions – in the relationship between trait anger and conspiracy beliefs. This past research revealed that trait anger correlated positively with conspiracy beliefs and with perceiving conspirators to have more evil intentions. Moreover, perceived evil intentions statistically
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Turkish adaptation of Oxford positive self scale: Association with psychological distress, subjective vitality and psychological well-being Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Büşra Kocyigit, Gamze Ceco, M. Engin Deniz, Seydi Ahmet Satici
Positive cognitions contribute directly to psychological well-being, whilst negative cognitions are associated with many mental disorders including depression and anxiety. Psychometric properties of the Oxford Positive Self-Scale were analyzed in a Turkish sample group to assess positive beliefs about the self. In this context, two studies were conducted with two different sample groups. Study I included
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Seeing workplace bullying through a glass darkly: The illuminating role of organizational and individual ethics Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Sean R. Valentine, Robert A. Giacalone, Patricia A. Meglich
Workplace bullying is an ethical concern, suggesting that its occurrence is connected to the ethical characteristics of organizations and employees. Drawing from routine activity theory, this investigation explored proposed relationships among multiple measures of organizational ethics, individual ethics, and perceived bullying. Two separate investigations used time-lagged data collected from 210 business
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The relationship between alexithymia, rumination and binge drinking among university students Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Pelin Alpay, Natália Kocsel, Attila Galambos, Gyöngyi Kökönyei
The current study aimed to examine the differential association of alexithymia and rumination facets with binge drinking. Two-hundred and ninety-two university students participated in this cross-sectional study, and we analyzed the data of those who reported alcohol use in the past 30 days ( 247, 23.32). Self-report measures were used to assess the levels of alexithymia and rumination. Participants
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Cultural validation of situational DIAMONDS in South Korea Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Heejeong Moon, Hyunnie Ahn
This study aimed to determine the cultural appropriateness of the DIAMONDS (Duty, Intellect, Adversity, Mating, pOsitivity, Negativity, Deception, and Sociality) model as a situational taxonomy within the South Korean cultural context. Using a sample from the local population, we validated the Riverside Situational Q-Sort-8 (RSQ-8), designed to measure the DIAMONDS model. The study included 445 adult
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Interactions between Machiavellianism and verbal reasoning in “bullshit” production Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Christian Blötner
Persons high in the manipulative, misanthropic trait Machiavellianism make use of various forms of deception to attain their goals. A recent study demonstrated that different facets of Machiavellianism account for different kinds of deception (Blötner & Bergold, 2023; doi:10.1111/bjso.12559). Intelligence could be another predictor of deception production. This research examined the interactions between
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Personality and psychopathology in stand-up comedians Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Lauren B. Lloveras, Wilson McDermut
There is a widely held popular belief that comedians are prone to mental illness and fall into the “mad artist” archetype. The present study aims to examine personality, mental illness, and tangible markers of psychological functioning in comedians compared to adults in the general population. The sample included 108 comedians and 99 adults from the general population. Participants provided demographic
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Patterns of individual differences in coping strategies: Criterion profile analysis of open coping strategies data Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Mojdeh Gholamizadeh Behbahani, Denis Lajoie
This study investigates coping strategies and their intricate relationship with covariates, focusing on their nuanced impact of pattern or level effects on crucial psychological variables, including resilience, well-being, life satisfaction, and depression. Existing literature has primarily examined the relationship between coping styles and such variables through individual linear analyses, which
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Dimensions of Animality: Expanding nomological breadth and controlling phenotypic similarity Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Netzin G. Steklis, Catherine Salmon, H. Dieter Steklis, Aurelio José Figueredo
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In obsessive-compulsive disorder, autogenous and reactive obsessions are differentiated by disgust and mating strategies Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Benjamin J. Mitchell, Laith Al-Shawaf, Karin G. Coifman
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been conceptualized as the product of dysfunctional harm prevention systems accompanied by heightened negative emotions like disgust. However, models have not fully accounted for functional heterogeneity in OCD, such as the distinction between OCD subtypes (autogenous vs. reactive) and their differing profiles of relationships with other psychological constructs
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Why a lot of grandiose narcissism can be a good thing for leadership effectiveness: Political skill as game changer Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Franziska Böhm, Gerhard Blickle
We tested the productively tempering role of political skill, which is a developed level of social skill and an acquired interpersonal competence, on the relation between leader grandiose narcissism and leadership effectiveness. In a sample of 640 supervisors and 1259 employees, we found that at high levels of leader political skill, both low and high leader grandiose narcissism have beneficial consequences
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Don't tell me what to do! Narcissism and advice taking: A meta-analysis and future research directions Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Anna-Katharina Stöcker, Astrid Schütz
In this meta-analysis, we investigated whether people with narcissistic traits are less likely than others to take advice. Additionally, we checked whether this would be independent of the advice giver's expertise and explored other potential moderators. Previously published and unpublished research has produced contradictory results, which motivated this pre-registered meta-analysis ( = 11, total
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Using conformity and social ability to predict the general factor of personality Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Curtis S. Dunkel, Dimitri van der Linden, Tetsuya Kawamoto
Personality traits covary to produce a higher-order trait labeled the general factor of personality or GFP. The GFP appears to reflect a mixture of response bias and social-effectiveness. In the current study data from the Oregon Youth Study ( = 206) is used to test the possibility that the GFP is also due to normative conformity. Results showed that although conformity did account for a significant
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Owning the plan: The role of autonomous if-then planning for goal progress and action crisis Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Anne Holding, Christine Cunningham, Richard Koestner, Gabriele Oettingen
Autonomous motivation arising from a sense of truly valuing or enjoying one's pursuits (“wanting to do it”) is associated with goal progress and well-being. Likewise, setting an implementation intention in the form of an if-then plan can lead to improved goal outcomes. We introduce the concept of autonomous motivation for if-then plans and study its association with plan enactment, goal progress, and
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Antagonistic personality and symptoms of psychological distress: Feeling less bad about being impaired Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 William Hart, Joshua T. Lambert, Charlotte K. Cease, Peter Castagna
People will inevitably encounter life problems, and symptoms of mental distress that arise from these problems, such as low self-esteem, unhappiness, or anxiety, may motivate people to change or seek professional help. While antagonistic personality features are often associated with increased impairment, positive mental distress relations are weak or inconsistent. It is possible that people with antagonistic
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Depression and fitness: the Portuguese-Brazilian version of the evolutionary fitness scale Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Andreza Conceição de Souza Tavares, Cezar Giosan, Rosana Suemi Tokumaru
The concept of fitness is crucial to the study of human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. A proposed causal link between fitness-related problems and depression has been suggested. Measuring fitness in humans requires exploring behavioral components, such as mating, parental investment, social capital, and health-oriented actions. This study navigates the relationship between depression and
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Corrigendum to “Social intensity syndrome: The development and validation of the social intensity syndrome scale.” [Pers. Individ. Differ. 73 (2015), pp. 17-23/] Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Philip G. Zimbardo, Anthony C. Ferreras, Sarah R. Brunskill
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Emotional intelligence in digital interactions – A call for renewed assessments Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Catherine Audrin, Bertrand Audrin
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A multidimensional approach to sexual prejudice: Examining the unique roles of moral disapproval and outgroup antipathy Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Stephanie R. Mallinas, E. Ashby Plant
We conceptualize sexual prejudice (i.e., prejudice toward gay/lesbian people) as including two related but distinct individual difference components – moral disapproval and outgroup antipathy. Whereas moral disapproval concerns the perceived wrongness of gay/lesbian sexuality, outgroup antipathy concerns negative evaluations of gay/lesbian individuals. Confirmatory factor analysis supports this two-factor
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Is grit persistence adaptive? Goal pursuit behavior when faced with a difficult goal Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Miki Toyama
This research examines the goal pursuit behavior of high-grit individuals encountering difficult goals. In Study 1, the survey approach is used to examine the association between grit and goal pursuit behavior for difficult goals among 310 college students and determine whether this association is moderated by perceived goal importance. Results indicate that high-grit individuals do not disengage themselves
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Perceptions of perfectionism in groups Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ashley Batts Allen, Kayla Benson, Tyler Cox
The two-factor factor model of perfectionism is comprised of perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns. Perfectionistic strivings are associated with more adaptive traits such as conscientiousness, whereas perfectionistic concerns are linked with maladaptive outcomes such as depression and anxiety. This study examines if perfectionist team members are perceived positively or negatively
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Within-person associations between personality traits and loneliness controlling for negative affect Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Mohsen Joshanloo
Despite cross-sectional evidence of significant associations between loneliness and the Big Five personality traits, elucidating the directionality of these associations requires further longitudinal investigation. To address this gap, the present study examined the longitudinal relationship between loneliness and personality traits, controlling for negative affect. Data were drawn from the Health
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Ambition and subjective career success: A nonlinear relationship Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jingyi Wei, Sow Hup Joanne Chan, Fangzhou Lin
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The dancer personality: Comparing dancers and non-dancers in Germany and Sweden Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Julia F. Christensen, Laura W. Wesseldijk, Miriam A. Mosing, Kirill Fayn, Eva-Madeleine Schmidt, Matthias Blattmann, Luisa Sancho-Escanero, Fredrik Ullén
Data on the personality of dancers is sparse, and existing studies generally use small samples and heterogeneous measures of personality across studies. We investigated Big Five personality profiles of dancers in two large representative samples from Sweden ( = 5435) and Germany ( = 574). Musicians have previously been found to be more open, agreeable and neurotic than control participants who were
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Is there a kernel of truth to the stereotype that women who engage in casual sex have lower self-esteem? Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Susan Sprecher, Julie Verette-Lindenbaum
Evidence of a stereotype that links casual sex with being stigmatized and having a lower self-esteem has been found in recent studies particularly for women. This study focused on whether there is a kernel of truth to the specific stereotype that casual sex is linked to lower self-esteem in women. More specifically, we addressed the question of whether, in recent decades, college women who had higher
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Validation of the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire in Croatian and Portuguese samples using exploratory graph analysis Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ana Ćosić Pilepić, Tamara Mohorić, Vladimir Takšić, Luísa Faria, Ana Costa
This study aimed to validate the (ESCQ-42, Takšić et al., 2009) in Croatian and Portuguese samples using exploratory graph analysis (EGA). The ESCQ, rooted in the Mayer and Salovey emotional intelligence model (Mayer & Salovey, 1997), was administered to 627 Portuguese students (M = 15.5; SD = 0.76) and 562 Croatian students (M = 16.3; SD = 1.07). This questionnaire, featuring three subscales for perceiving
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Exploring the relationship between boredom proneness and agency Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Vanessa Baaba Dadzie, Allison Drody, James Danckert
Boredom is a negatively valanced emotion characterized by a failed desire to engage with some meaningful activity. A diminished sense of control over events in a person's environment may underly the experience of boredom, precipitating the inability to engage meaningfully. In two separate samples we explored the relation between the sense of agency and trait boredom proneness. Data from both samples
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Development and validation of the SDR-O: A new measure of socially desirable responding in organizations Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Robert J. Fisher, Saurabh Rawal, Bryan Hochstein, Christopher R. Plouffe
Organizational respondents often provide misleading or patently false information on job applications, personality tests, and other self-reports. Nevertheless, the degree to which socially desirable responding (SDR) threatens the validity of organizational self-reports remains controversial in academic research. The present research contends that the true level of SDR in organizational measures has
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Development and validation of the highly sensitive child interview for the assessment of environmental sensitivity in primary school children Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jenni E. Kähkönen, Francesca Lionetti, Luciana Castelli, Michael Pluess
Around a third of children perceive and process their environment more deeply and are more impacted by its quality. To obtain a more comprehensive and objective measure of this (ES) in primary school children, we developed a semi-structured, multi-informant interview. Study 1 captures the item development while Study 2 covers the psychometric analysis and initial validation of the interview in a small
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A holistic view of gender traits and personality traits predict human health Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Weijun Liu, Ziang Li, Cody Ding, Xu Wang, Hong Chen
Mainstream psychology disassembles human psyche into psychological components (i.e., parts) to predict human health, including internalizing problems (e.g., aggression) and externalizing problems (e.g., depression and loneliness). However, this approach ignores the complexity of the human psyche as a whole. We have devised comprehensive methods for calculating the parts-whole relationships based on
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Unity in diversity: Exploring the effect of oneness with humanity on the willingness to donate to Syrian and Ukrainian refugees Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Emine Bilgen, Hanna Zagefka, R. Thora Bjornsdottir
A sense of oneness with another person or group implies a sense of interconnectedness and overlap with that other, and perceived oneness has been found to foster willingness to help others in need. Despite its potential importance, little empirical research has explored the influence of sense of oneness on attitudes and behaviours towards refugees. This work addresses the question of whether encouraging
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Me, my thoughts and I – Personality as a moderator of the effect of thoughts on subjective well-being Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Luc Schneider, Aleksandar Matic, Teodora Sandra Buda, Paul Dolan
We study how personality impacts people's experiences of their thoughts in terms of experienced happiness and worthwhileness. Over two weeks, 483 participants completed over 20,000 experience sampling questionnaires including reports of hedonic and eudemonic well-being, and type and content of thoughts. Using multi-level modelling we show that personality traits recorded prior to the start of the study
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Personality types and their associations with psychological resilience, coping with stress, and life satisfaction among undergraduate students: A latent profile analysis approach Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sakhavat Mammadov, Shiyu Wang, Zhenqiu Lu
In this study, we sought to replicate and expand upon Block's (1971) RUO (Resilients-Undercontrollers-Overcontrollers) personality typology using a sample of 483 undergraduate students. We employed latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify distinct patterns of Big Five personality traits and examined how these latent profile groups were associated with critical aspects of well-being, including life
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Both cosmopolitanism and ethnocentrism are positively associated with individual differences in global literacy Personality and Individual Differences (IF 3.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Lei Zhang, Yusuke Takahashi
This study sought to investigate how cosmopolitanism and ethnocentrism can explain individual differences in global literacy. The study sample consisted of 730 participants (353 men and 377 women) ranging in age from 20 to 59 years ( = 40.16, = 10.78). After controlling for demographic variables, hierarchical regression analysis revealed that most subscales of cosmopolitanism, as well as a subscale