Showing papers in "Journal of Research in Personality in 2007"

TL;DR: In this paper, the Big Five Inventory (BFI-44) was abbreviated to a 10-item version, the BFI-10, which was developed simultaneously in several samples in both English and German.

TL;DR: The authors found that self-compassion helps buffer against anxiety when faced with an ego-threat in a laboratory setting, and that increases in selfcompassion occurring over a one-month interval were associated with increased psychological well-being.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relation of self-compassion to positive psychological health and the Wve factor model of personality and found that selfcompassion had a signi cant positive association with self-reported measures of happiness, optimism, positive aVect, wisdom, personal initiative, curiosity and exploration, agreeableness, extroversion, and conscientiousness.

TL;DR: This article explored hierarchical relations among theoretically generated lower order scales of adult temperament and personality in two studies and found that the Big Five Factor Model showed considerable convergence with the Big Six Factor Model.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive theoretical model of personality structure was proposed with the Big One at the highest level of the hierarchy. But, the model was based on a five-factor model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on a widespread occupational stressor: emotional labour (EL), which refers to the act of managing emotions and emotional expressions in order to be consistent with organizational "display rules", defined as the organizationally required emotions during interpersonal service transactions, and found that high trait El individuals experience lower levels of burnout and somatic complaints, and this effect was mediated by the choice of emotional labour strategies.

TL;DR: This article examined the distinctiveness of three "positive thinking" variables (self-esteem, trait hope, and positive attributional style) in predicting future high school grades, teacher-rated adjustment, and students' reports of their affective states.

TL;DR: In this article, the accuracy of first impressions was examined by investigating judged construct (negative affect, positive affect, the Big five personality variables, intelligence), exposure time (5, 20, 45, 60, and 300), and slice location (beginning, middle, end).

TL;DR: The STARTS model was used to analyze life satisfaction data from two nationally representative panel studies and showed that although life satisfaction is moderately stable over long periods of time, there is also an appreciable degree of instability that might depend on contextual circumstances.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined personality as a predictor of college achievement beyond the traditional predictors of high school grades and SAT scores, and found that conscientiousness alone explained unique variance in senior GPA beyond the conventional predictors, even when freshman GPA was included in the model.

TL;DR: Examining changes in dispositional optimism and resources over 10 years in former law students found it was less stable than many personality traits (r = .35), potentially because it is responsive to resource change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether Big Five personality traits associated with the ability to exhibit self-control would moderate the anger-aggression link and found that conscientiousness was negatively associated with anger and relative left prefrontal asymmetry.

TL;DR: The integrated trait-state (ITS) model as discussed by the authors decomposes state and trait variance and allows one to test the assumptions that underly existing approaches, which is illustrated with an empirical example.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that test-retest reliability for T was high and comparable to the short-term stability of questionnaire-based and implicitly assessed personality assessment instruments such as Emotional Stability and Openness to Experience.

TL;DR: This article examined the personalities and psychological states of the 2004 candidates for U.S. president and vice president through their use of words, and found that the candidates had unique linguistic styles variously associated with cognitive complexity, femininity, depression, aging, presidentiality, and honesty.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for superstitious, magical, and paranormal beliefs is proposed, where these concepts are differentiated from other unfounded beliefs and defined identically as a confusion of core knowledge about physical, psychological, and biological phenomena.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis reveals that social presence is associated with performance impairment for negatively oriented individuals and with performance improvement for positively oriented individuals, and personality is a more substantial moderator of the effect of social presence than is task complexity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that avoidant procrastination was associated negatively with present-fatalistic time orientation, and arousal was associated positively with presenthedonist and negatively with future time orientations.

TL;DR: This article found that the need for social approval correlates with positive social trends such as a low divorce rate, low crime rate, and low unemployment rate, suggesting that these birth cohort trends are not due to shifts in response styles.

TL;DR: Peterson et al. as mentioned in this paper used a sample of 336 middle-aged twins drawn from the Minnesota Twin Registry who completed the values in action (VIA) inventory of strengths, and detected signi cant genetic and non-shared environmental eVects for 21 of 24 character strengths with little evidence of shared environmental contributions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is described in which commitment to volunteering is hypothesized to be the result of demographic qualities, personality, identity, values, and social relationships, and the results from structural equation modeling analyses suggest that the hypothetical model provides a good fit to the data.

TL;DR: In this article, Anderson et al. tested the assumption of the general aggression model by examining if the dispositional trait of anger moderated the relation between violent video games and aggression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that unconditional altruistic behavior is related to general intelligence and that the cost incurred by engaging in unconditional altruism is lower for highly intelligent people than for less intelligent people.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between neuropsychological behavioral performance and psychopathic personality traits, measured via the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI), in a non-incarcerated sample.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether Sense of Coherence (SOC) is more stable among those with high SOC compared to those with low SOC, as hypothesized by Antonovsky [Antonovsky, A. (1987).

TL;DR: The authors found that high ego development may provide narrators with the kind of sophisticated frameworks for meaning-making that are especially wellsuited for the important task of making good sense of psychotherapy.

TL;DR: This article investigated how an individual's interpersonal conflict resolution behavior is affected by the individual's personality (assessed by the Big 5) and a situational factor (the other party's conflict behavior), as well as how the two factors interact.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a sample of 126 men to examine whether these psychopathy factors are differentially related to aggression manifested in two conditions (instrumental and hostile/reactive aggression) of a laboratory aggression paradigm.

TL;DR: In this paper, specific Sensitivity×Regulation interactions emerged: low sensitivity to positive affect (i.e., independent, schizoid-like personality) was only associated with reduced emotional well-being when self-motivation was low.

TL;DR: A structural equation model indicated that colostomy patients who had high disgust sensitivity felt more stigmatized, and this was in turn strongly related to lower life satisfaction, and in the non-patient sample, disgust sensitivity was a significant, positive predictor of wanting less contact with colstomy patients.