Showing papers in "Journal of Research in Personality in 2013"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Monte-Carlo simulations to determine the critical sample size from which on the magnitude of a correlation can be expected to be stable, which depends on the effect size, the width of the corridor of stability, and the requested confidence that the trajectory does not leave this corridor any more.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined meaning in life as a suicide resiliency factor and found that grit and gratitude interact such that individuals endorsing high gratitude and grit experience a near absence of suicidal ideations over time.

TL;DR: The first factor resulting from a bifactor rotation or biquartimin transformationNecessarily the result of a confirmatory factor analysis forcing a Bifactor solution as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Brief HEXACO Inventory (BHI) as mentioned in this paper is a short instrument that measures the six personality dimensions of the EXACO model and takes approximately 2-3min to complete.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 46 studies as mentioned in this paper examined the cross-sectional associations between dangerous worldview and right-wing Authoritarianism (RWA), and between competitive worldview and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO).

TL;DR: Structural equation modelling examined the effects of Neuroticism and Extraversion at ages 16 and 26 years on mental wellbeing and life satisfaction at age 60-64 and explored the mediating roles of psychological and physical health.

TL;DR: This article examined the interrelation between psychological need satisfaction at the general, domain-specific, and episodic levels of experience, and the extent to which need satisfaction in each level predicts general well-being independently of the other levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation of the relation between need for cognition and intelligence is presented, and the first to examine working memory is the one that has not been fully explored, but it has been reported to have a small to moderate association with aspects of intelligence.

TL;DR: Using the Riverside Situational Q-sort (RSQ), this article investigated the relationship between personality, gender and individual differences in perceptions (or construals) of four situations experienced by undergraduate participants in their daily lives.

TL;DR: In this article, associations of personality traits with psychological well-being (PWB) were analyzed across ages 33�50 as part of an ongoing Finnish longitudinal study (initial N = 369), and Bivariate latent growth curve analyses indicated that a low initial level of neuroticism and high extraversion correlated strongly with a high level of PWB.

TL;DR: Within-individual variability in self-concepts and everyday personality states and affects was investigated in two experience sampling studies using density distribution and situation-behavior approaches as mentioned in this paper, and the results showed that within individual variability was substantial and selfconcept and personality state variability exhibited moderate convergence.

TL;DR: The authors found that those high in Honesty-Humility were more likely to cooperate in the prisoner's dilemma, so long as this was sensible in any way, while those low in Humility tended to defect, especially when this behavior was very tempting but not risky.

TL;DR: This article examined the relation between psychopathy, especially its fearless dominance dimension, and heroism in two undergraduate samples (N = 124 and 119), a community sample (n = 457), and 42 U.S. presidents.

TL;DR: The consistency of extreme response style and non-extreme response style across the latent variables assessed in an instrument is investigated in this article, where analyses were conducted on several PISA 2006 attitude scales and the German NEO-PI-R.

TL;DR: In this article, three traits (termed the Dark Triad) predicted selfish financial behavior: (a) reckless psychopathy, (b) overconfident narcissism, and (c) strategic Machiavellianism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether personality dimensions are differentially associated with ADHD and sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and found that sensitivity to reward was associated with both ADHD and SCT.

TL;DR: In this paper, the actor and partner effects of self-esteem on relationship satisfaction were examined using the actor-partner interdependence model and data from five independent samples of couples.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how identity processes were associated with self-esteem in high school and college students and found that commitment making and identification with commitment were positively related and ruminative exploration was negatively related.

TL;DR: This paper explored the associations between self-referencing verbal behavior and interpersonal problems and found that the frequency with which a person refers to herself is an important marker of psychological functioning and that self-reference has specific interpersonal implications beyond general interpersonal distress and depressive symptoms.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a meta-analytic review of the relations between general mental ability (GMA) and the Dark Triad personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) to determine if individuals who display socially exploitative social qualities tend to be more intelligent or less intelligent.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that personality change was relatively stable from adolescence through adulthood, and then increased after age 70, and correlated change was greater among traits associated with the same developmental processes (e.g., social investment or maturation of specific neurological systems).

TL;DR: The interpersonal perspective is a useful integrative framework for examining social processes that could contribute to associations of optimism-pessimism with physical health and emotional adjustment.

TL;DR: This article provided arguments for the validity of assessed national mean trait levels as criteria for evaluating stereotype accuracy and reported new data on national character in 26 cultures from descriptions (N = 3323) of the typical male or female adolescent, adult, or old person in each.

TL;DR: The authors surveyed well-acquainted dyads about two key moral character traits (Honesty-humility, Guilt Proneness), as well as several other individual differences, and found that moral character trait can be detected by wellacquainted others, suggesting that unethical behavior is committed disproportionately by people with low levels of these character traits.

TL;DR: This article investigated the validity of two personality inventories, the NEO-FFI and HEXACO-60, in predicting scores on each of the factor scales of the other instrument, both within and between sources of data.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relation between the Big Five personality traits and context-specific achievement goals in two different contexts (school and work) and found that conscientiousness was strongly and positively related to mastery-approach goals.

TL;DR: This NExPExEC interaction was significant in 4 of the 5 samples and a combined sample and approached significance in the fifth sample, indicating that this interaction was unrelated to general anxious symptoms and thus may be specific to symptoms of depression.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that openness to experience and extraversion both have a modest positive influence on the intention to emigrate, and heterogeneity in these effects is observed in that the influence of both traits is found to be conditional on a respondent's level of education.

TL;DR: Stabilities based on self-ratings in adulthood were compared to those measured by the Structured Interview for the Five-Factor Model (SIFFM), and trait ratings completed by interviewers, finding childhood traits demonstrated similar levels of stability across methods in adulthood.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how personality affects both peer-perceived popularity (status) and sociometric popularity (liking) in online social networks (OSNs), and found that targets scoring high on agency were ascribed a high status (without necessarily being liked), whereas targets scored high on creativity or communion were liked.