Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2008"

TL;DR: This article found that academic performance correlated with ability, achieving and deep learning approaches, Openness and Conscientiousness, and that these variables explained 40% of the variance in AP, while personality and learning approaches mediated the effects of ability on AP.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between loneliness and the need to belong with a sample of 436 volunteer participants drawn from the Australian Unity Wellbeing database Participants completed a survey that included a measure of satisfaction with personal relationships embedded in the Personal Wellbeing Index, the UCLA Loneliness scale, and the Need to Belong Scale.

TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which positive and negative affect at work mediate personality effects (Emotional Intelligence) on job satisfaction was tested. But, the results were limited to a subset of educators who completed the Wong Law Emotional Intelligence Scale and the General Index of job satisfaction.

TL;DR: This paper examined the factor structure and internal reliability of a self-report measure of mindfulness, the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS; Baer, Smith, & Allen, 2004 ), in Dutch speaking Psychology students and parents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the first behavioral genetic investigation of the three Dark Triad variables (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and their relationships with the Big 5 personality traits.

TL;DR: A large-scale literature review of research studying the relationship between intelligence and speed of information-processing was conducted by as mentioned in this paper, who found that measures of intelligence are significantly correlated with mental speed and that for some measures this relationship shows a trend toward strengthening as the complexity of the speeded tasks increase.

TL;DR: The extent to which two measures of epistemic curiosity, the Epistemic Curiosity Scale (ECS) and the curiosity as a Feeling-of-Deprivation Scale (CFDS), differentiated between interest (I) and deprivation (D) type curiosity was examined in four studies as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This article examined the predictive value of social support (SS) and emotional intelligence (EI), and their interaction effects, on subjective well-being (SWB) beyond variance already explained by personality and sociodemographic variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided a preliminary test of this hypothesis by comparing 42 students with a history of depression to 42 matched controls using self-report questionnaires and found that past depression was related to higher levels of self-perceived emotion regulation difficulties, a more frequent use of dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies and a less frequent use 'putting things into perspective' as a functional strategy.

TL;DR: The authors found that up to 47% of the variance in divergent thinking scores can be accounted for by the Big Five personality traits and personality correlates to creativity vary as a function of the creativity measure.

TL;DR: The International English Mini-Markers (IEM) as discussed by the authors were developed to produce better factor structures, higher scale internal consistency reliabilities, and greater orthogonality than the original set of items.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between mental toughness and coping, and found that higher levels of mental toughness were associated with more problem or approach coping strategies, but less use of avoidance coping strategies (distancing, mental distraction, and resignation).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested whether gratitude could explain variance in satisfaction with life (SWL) after controlling for both the domains and the facets of the Big Five and found that gratitude explained an additional 9% of the variance in SWL.

TL;DR: The authors found that trait El individuals' choice of adaptive strategies to down-regulate various negative emotions and maintain positive ones explained their decreased propensity to experience these negative emotions, and their increased tendency to experience positive ones.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between fluid intelligence, the Big Five traits, hypomania and three measures of creativity: Divergent Thinking fluency, Self-rated creativity and the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviours (BICB).

TL;DR: This paper examined how individual differences in the consideration of future consequences impact trait self-control, and temporal discounting under conditions of ego-depletion, and found that lower levels of trait self control are best predicted by higher levels of CFC-I (not CFC -F).

TL;DR: The relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and several addiction-related behaviors (gambling, internet use, and video game playing) in two community-based samples of adolescents was examined by as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors found that responses from individuals of East-Asian heritage tend to be more ambivalent and moderate than those of European-heritage, and that dialectical thinking mediates the cultural differences in moderacy and ambivalence.

TL;DR: This article examined the influence of urgency, sensation seeking, lack of planning, and lack of persistence on these three addictive behavior patterns in 246 college students and found that only urgency, defined as the tendency to act rashly when distressed, explained significant variance in symptom level for each of the three addictive behaviors.

TL;DR: Results were largely consistent with expectations in that psychopathy was negatively correlated with overall facial recognition of affect, sad facial affect, and recognition of less intense displays of affect and an unexpected negative correlation with recognition of happy facial affect was found.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether trait EI also influences the anticipation of stressful events and how these events are appraised, and they found that high EI individuals exhibit greater self-efficacy to cope and appraise the situation as a challenge rather than a threat.

TL;DR: This article found that acquiescence and extreme response styles are related to low education or low cognitive ability, and that both responses are positively related to age and negatively to education and income in most world regions.

TL;DR: In this article, Carver and White's (1994) original one-factor solution of the BIS scale was compared with two alternative two-factor solutions separating BIS-Anxiety and FFFS-Fear.

TL;DR: The metacognitions questionnaire 30 (MCQ-30) as mentioned in this paper represents a unique measure of individual differences in metacognitive beliefs, judgements and monitoring tendencies considered to be crucial in the metACognitive theory (Wells, 2000) of psychological disturbances.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of university students (n = 226) completed divergent thinking tasks and measures of fluid reasoning, verbal fluency, and strategy generation and found that creativity was significantly related to a higher-order intelligence factor composed of the lower-order factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined the extent to which a measure of multidimensional schizotypy and intelligence predicted measures of creativity, as assessed by self-rated creativity, a measured of the creative personality (CPS: Gough, 1979) and an inventory of creative behaviours.

TL;DR: The Emotion Awareness Questionnaire for children (Rieffe, Meerum Terwogt, Petrides, et al., 2007) was improved conceptually and shortened to a 30-item version as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity (ease of excitation, low sensory threshold, and aesthetic sensitivity) and alexithymia, autism symptoms, anxiety, and depression was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of various components of impulsivity in compulsive buying was investigated, including urgency, lack of pre-meditation and lack of perseverance, and the UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale.

TL;DR: This article used structural equation models to test the hypothesis that a General Factor of Personality (GFP) occupies the apex of the hierarchy of personality and found that a GFP explained 45% of the reliable variance in a model that went from the Big Five to the Big Two to the big One in the 14 studies of inter-scale correlations assembled by Digman (1997).