Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2010"

TL;DR: A recent meta-analysis by Schutte, Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Bhullar, and Rooke as discussed by the authors indicated that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is associated with better health.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relative impact of the main positive emotion regulation strategies on two components of well-being: positive affect (PA) and life satisfaction (LS).

TL;DR: In this paper, the mediating effects of rumination (with brooding and reflection components) and worry were examined in the relation between self-compassion and depression and anxiety, and it was found that worrying was significantly greater than brooding.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between meaning in life, optimism and well-being among adolescents and found that both meaning and optimism significantly associated with multidimensional life satisfaction and multiddimensional structure of psychosocial problems among adolescents.

TL;DR: In this paper, one measure of delay discounting (Money Choice Questionnaire) and two measures of time perspective (Consideration of Future Consequences Scale and Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory) were compared to each other and to self-reported health behaviors with 467 undergraduates.

TL;DR: The Pure Procrastination Scale as discussed by the authors is derived from the factor analysis, showing improved correlations with key constructs, such as SWB, and provides the field of procrastination with an improved measurement base, likely increasing the usefulness of their future findings.

TL;DR: This article investigated the response patterns and scale properties in a large sample of undergraduate students (N =414) using item response theory analyses and found that general statements of automatic inattentiveness or automatic pilot confer greater statistical information about the underlying latent trait.

TL;DR: This article explored the role of social conservatism in the link between disgust and prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuals and found that disgust sensitivity was positively correlated with socially conservative values regarding intergroup relations and potential contamination.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the costs and benefits of possessing the dark triads within the domain of mating psychology and found that the social style and lower order personality traits of the Dark Triads facilitated increased mateships in the form of poaching mates from others and being poached oneself to form mateships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the psychological significance of spatial ability and incorporate spatial ability in talent identification procedures for advanced learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional study investigated gender differences on domains of stress, self-esteem and emotional states (depression and anxiety) as well as the association between stress and emotions.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that psychopathy and Machiavellianism were correlated with low self-control, a tendency to discount future consequences, and high rates of attention deficit disorder.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in predicting history of suicide in a sample of 88 active duty US Air Force personnel, which was compared to a non-military undergraduate sample (n ǫ=309) and a clinical non-medical sample.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional study of 514 college students (84% Caucasian and 62% females) using self-report questionnaires, tested a proposed model for understanding the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and depressive symptoms through three types of affect regulation: emotion regulation, mood regulation and self-regulation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the hypotheses that HRV, indexing adaptive self-regulation, is associated with subjective well-being, and that this association is mediated by the habitual use of strategies of emotion regulation that involve executive functions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a 2 × 2 model of perfectionism, positing that within-person combinations of evaluative concerns (ECP) and personal standards perfectionism (PSP) are the key features needed to differentiate four subtypes of perfectionism.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of existing paper and pencil figural drawing scales with published reliability and validity data is presented, along with recommendations for selecting an appropriate drawing scale and alternatives to Fig.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between mental health and procrastination and found that higher levels of stress and stress are associated with poorer mental health, health problems, and treatment delay.

TL;DR: The authors tested the factorial structure of the Connor and Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and assessed its independence of two broad affective constructs, positive and negative affect.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the shared variance between affective and cognitive dimensions of Alexithymia, and found specific associations between cognitive and affective components of both constructs that were dissimilarly affected by anxiety and depression.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between trait emotional intelligence (trait EI; TEIQue-SF) and the Big Five personality dimensions (NEO-FFI) in two Dutch samples and found that the overlap between trait EI and the higher-order personality dimensions exceeds 50%, even when the constructs are operationalized via shortened assessments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the predictive validity of the Big Five traits with respect to the one-, two-, and five-dimensional approaches for measuring counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) and found that conscientiousness only predicted the OD behaviors of sabotage and theft.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the differences in use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies between males and females and the subsequent effect on worry and found that females significantly differed in the endorsement of use of rumination, putting problems into perspective and blaming others as emotional regulation strategies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how narcissism, three dimensions of perfectionism (high standards, discrepancy, and order), and dispositional positive and negative affect relate to overall workaholism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors meta-analyzed the literature on the relationship between the length ratio of the second to the fourth digit (2D:4D), a putative negative correlate of prenatal testosterone (T) levels in humans, and athletic prowess.

TL;DR: In this article, three constructs, namely need for cognition, typical intellectual engagement, and openness for ideas, were investigated regarding discriminant validity regarding epistemic curiosity, the desire for knowledge that motivates individuals to learn new ideas, eliminate information-gaps, and solve intellectual problems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the locus-of-hope dimension was extended to include both internal and external agents in generating plans for pursuing goals, such as family, peers, or a supernatural/spiritual being.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the short-term longitudinal relations among perspective taking, sympathy, prosocial moral reasoning and aggression in adolescents and found that moral reasoning was interrelated and predicted both prosocial behaviors and aggression.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that individuals who scored high on the Dark Triad appear to have a ludus-game playing and a pragma- cerebral love style, suggesting that the psychological systems that underlie this love style may relate to the adoption of an agentic social style.

TL;DR: This paper used multiple criteria to determine the dimensionality of the virtues in action character strengths in an adult sample and found that a three- or four-dimensional model best fit the data.