Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2005"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relation of the three Dark Triad personality traits (psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Narcissism) with the variables of the Five-Factor Model and the HEXACO model of personality structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative strengths of EI and personality as regression predictors of health-related outcomes were investigated for a subgroup of Scots (N range 99-111).

TL;DR: In this article, a new instrument, the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ), was developed to measure nine different cognitive coping strategies people often use when faced with a negative event: self-blame, other blame, rumination, catastrophizing, acceptance, putting into perspective, positive refocus, refocus on planning and positive reappraisal.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of first-year tertiary students investigated the relationship between EI and a number of life skills (academic achievement, life satisfaction, anxiety, problem-solving and coping).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relations between neuroticism, rumination, and worry, on the one hand, and anxiety and depression on the other hand, in a sample of 73 undergraduate students.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of 796 college students completed measures of the Big Five traits, prosocial value motivation to volunteer, and volunteering, and the results of path analyses showed that prosocial values motivation partially mediated the relations between agreeableness and extraversion and volunteering.

TL;DR: In this paper, a five-factor personality model profile of the broader autism phenotype as assessed by the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) was analyzed and compared with a brief Asperger syndrome screening measure.

TL;DR: Buss et al. as discussed by the authors identified four universal dimensions of long-term mate preferences: Love vs. Status/ Resources; Dependable/Stable vs. Good Looks/Health; Education/Intelligence vs. Desire for Home/Children; and Sociability vs. Similar Religion.

TL;DR: The structure of the 50-item IPIP was examined in three different adult samples (total N = 906), in each case justifying a 5-factor solution, with only minor discrepancies as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors constructed a latent variable model identifying a single common factor, denoted as K, which underlies a variety of otherwise disparate life history parameters, including childhood attachment to the biological father, adult romantic partner attachment, mating effort, Machiavellianism and risk propensity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and individual differences in college students' academic motivation and found that engagement was best explained by Openness to experience and extraversion.

TL;DR: The authors presented an attempt to develop a short (15 item) version of the Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) scale (Altemeyer, 1998) and participants were three samples of high school and university students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Homogeneity Analysis and Multiple Linear Regression (SPSS 11) to predict teacher burnout in the province of Seville (Spain) using self-applied interviews and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).

TL;DR: In this article, the existential perspective is offered as a theory based approach to differentiate the two concepts and point to the distinct features of burnout, while burnout and strain are both adverse responses to job stressors they seem to have different antecedents, correlates and consequences.

TL;DR: In this article, a common measure of emotional intelligence (EI) was administered to 275 participants (216 female) to examine how different groups score on a test of EI. Results indicated that females scored slightly higher than males and EI scores tended to increase with age.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association between perceived emotional intelligence (PEI), measured by the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS), and life satisfaction in Spanish undergraduate university students.

TL;DR: In this article, a group of 156 first year medical students completed measures of emotional intelligence (EI) and physician empathy, and a scale assessing their feelings about a communications skills course component.

TL;DR: This paper examined the association between emotional intelligence (emotion-relevant abilities) and stress (feelings of inability to control life events), considering personality (self-perception of the meta-emotion traits of clarity, intensity, and attention) as a moderating variable.

TL;DR: The authors found that self-criticism is associated with contempt and disgust for the self in the generation of vulnerable or invulnerable self-states, and that Self-critic was less assertive, more submissive and more sad and ashamed than Controls.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between personality traits, depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation, and found that depressive symptoms were positively predicted by Neuroticism and Openness and negatively predicted by Extraversion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the association between the Big Five personality dimensions, the most relevant demographic factors (sex, age and relationship status), and subjective well-being, and found that personality was one of the most important correlates of subjective wellbeing, especially through Extraversion and Neuroticism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of maladaptive perfectionism in the relation between perceived parental psychological control and both self-esteem and depression, and found that psychological control predicted severity of depression, selfesteem and maladaptively perfectionism.

TL;DR: In the model of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) proposed by Dugas, Gagnon, Ladouceur, and Freeston (1998), Intolerance of Uncertainty plays a central role in the acquisition and maintenance of worries as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship of ability-based EI facets with performance under stress and found that high levels of EI would promote challenge appraisals and better performance, whereas low EI levels would foster threat appraisal and worse performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a reasons for internet use questionnaire was developed to examine the relationship between internet use, social anxiety, general anxiety, and depression, and found that socially anxious individuals may find it easier to interact online where anonymity can be maintained rather than engage in face to face interaction where being observed by others might induce a fear of negative evaluation.

TL;DR: In this article, it was hypothesised that emotional intelligence (EI) scales would explain unique variance in life satisfaction beyond that predicted by personality, IQ, and control variables, and personality accounted for an additional 34.2% of the variance of life satisfaction after controlling for marital status and income.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined to what extent performance on behavioral measures of decision-making is predicted by self-reported personality traits of sensitivity for punishment and reward, impulsivity, and decision making styles.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined connections between paranormal beliefs and educational level, discipline, length of education, gender, and analytical and intuitive thinking, and found that university students had less paranormal beliefs than vocational school students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the psychometric properties of an age-downward version of the Carver and White (1994) BIS/BAS scales and found that BIS was positively associated with both BIS and BAS, whereas extraversion was negatively related to BIS but positively to BAS.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have assessed eating disorder patients with respect to the four impulsivity-related personality traits in the purpose of testing the specific hypotheses offered by Whiteside and Lynam's (2001) model.