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María Dolores Avia
Researcher at Complutense University of Madrid
Publications - 28
Citations - 2020
María Dolores Avia is an academic researcher from Complutense University of Madrid. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Big Five personality traits. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 28 publications receiving 1902 citations.
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Nature over nurture: temperament personality and lifespan
Robert R. McCrae,Paul T. Costa,Fritz Ostendorf,Alois Angleitner,Martina Hrebickova,María Dolores Avia,Jesús Sanz,M.L. Sánchez-Bernardos,M Ersin Kusdil,Ruth Woodfield,Peter R Saunders,Peter B. Smith +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the intrinsic maturation of personality is complemented by the culturally conditioned development of characteristic adaptations that express personality; interventions in human development are best addressed to these.
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National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures
Antonio Terracciano,Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek,N. Ádám,L. Adamovová,C.-k. Ahn,H.-n. Ahn,B. M. Alansari,Lidia Alcalay,Jüri Allik,Alois Angleitner,María Dolores Avia,Lindsay E. Ayearst,Claudio Barbaranelli,Andrew Beer,M. A. Borg-Cunen,Denis Bratko,Marina Brunner-Sciarra,L. Budzinski,N. Camart,Donatien Dahourou,F. De Fruyt,M. I. P. de Lima,G. E. H. del Pilar,Ed Diener,Ruth Falzon,K. Fernando,Emília Ficková,Ronald Fischer,Carmen Flores-Mendoza,M. A. Ghayur,Sami Gülgöz,Bo Hagberg,Jamin Halberstadt,Magdalena S. Halim,Martina Hřebíčková,J. Humrichouse,Hans Henrik Jensen,D. D. Jocic,F. H. Jónsson,Brigitte Khoury,W. Klinkosz,Goran Knežević,Mary Anne Lauri,N. Leibovich,Thomas A. Martin,Iris Marušić,Khairul Anwar Mastor,David Matsumoto,Margaret McRorie,B. Meshcheriakov,Erik Lykke Mortensen,M. Munyae,János Nagy,Katsuharu Nakazato,Florence Nansubuga,Shigehiro Oishi,A. O. Ojedokun,Fritz Ostendorf,Delroy L. Paulhus,S. Pelevin,J.-M. Petot,N. Podobnik,Jose Porrata,V. S. Pramila,G. Prentice,Anu Realo,Norma Reátegui,Jean-Pierre Rolland,Jérôme Rossier,Willibald Ruch,Velko S. Rus,M.L. Sánchez-Bernardos,Vanina Schmidt,S. Sciculna-Calleja,A. Sekowski,Jane Shakespeare-Finch,Yoshiko Shimonaka,Franco Simonetti,Tilahun Sineshaw,Jerzy Siuta,Peter B. Smith,Paul D. Trapnell,K. K. Trobst,Lei Wang,Michelle Yik,A. Zupančič,Robert R. McCrae +86 more
TL;DR: Perceptions of national character appear to be unfounded stereotypes that may serve the function of maintaining a national identity.
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Nature over nurture: Temperament, personality, and lifespan development
Robert R. McCrae,Paul T. Costa,Fritz Ostendorf,Alois Angleitner,Martina Hřebíčková,María Dolores Avia,Jesús Sanz,M.L. Sánchez-Bernardos,M. E. Kusdil,Ruth Woodfield,P. R. Saunders,Peter B. Smith +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the intrinsic maturation of personality is complemented by the culturally conditioned development of characteristic adaptations that express personality; interventions in human development are best addressed to these.
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The five-factor model—II. Relations of the NEO-PI with other personality variables
María Dolores Avia,Jesús Sanz,M.L. Sánchez-Bernardos,M.R. Martínez-Arias,Fernando Silva,José Luis Graña +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the nomological network of the dimensions contained in Costa and McCrae's NEO-PI, which has become the most widely used operationalization of the five-factor model in the questionnaire domain.
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The Effects of Counting Blessings on Subjective Well-Being: a Gratitude Intervention in a Spanish Sample
TL;DR: Gratitude interventions may have an effect on well-being, but other methods to promote gratitude besides gratitude journals should be tested, as the difference in gratitude disappeared in the follow-up.