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Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2011"


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TL;DR: In the system of the Big Five, personality traits make a difference when entrepreneurs are compared with managers (C+, O+, E+, N+, N�, A� ). They are also relevant in predicting entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurs' performance.

668 citations


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TL;DR: Attentional control theory is developed to explicate the relationship between anxiety and motivation and implications for theoretical predictions and alternative theoretical accounts are discussed.

562 citations


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TL;DR: For instance, this article found that women were more likely than men to report using several different emotion regulation strategies, and these gender differences were significant even after statistically controlling for gender differences in depressive symptoms.

544 citations


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TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that conscientiousness and agreeableness were positively related with all four learning styles (synthesis analysis, methodical study, fact retention, and elaborative processing), whereas neuroticism was negatively related with each of the four styles.

529 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined associations among nature connectedness, well-being, and mindfulness in samples of undergraduate students while socially desirable responding was controlled, and found significant associations emerged among measures of nature-connectedness and indices of wellbeing.

458 citations


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TL;DR: Among the Dark Triad of personality, both narcissism and psychopathy have been linked to impulsivity as mentioned in this paper, but the pattern of associations that the dark triads have with functional and dysfunctional types of impulsivity remains unclear.

423 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a 15-item selection comprising three items from each facet scale for the Need for Closure (NFC) scale, based on data obtained from an aggregated heterogeneous sample.

420 citations


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TL;DR: This article presented the first test of whether strength use leads to improved well-being and validated the Strengths Use Scale, which is an important longitudinal predictor of wellbeing, and the new scale is a reliable and valid measurement tool.

419 citations


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TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship of narcissism and extraversion on adolescents' self-presentation in four Facebook profile features (profile picture, status updates, social network size, photo count), as reported by Grade 7-Grade 9 adolescents.

419 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between mindfulness and indices of happiness and explored a five-factor model of mindfulness, and found that self-compassion is a crucial attitudinal factor in the mindfulness-happiness relationship.

418 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the associations between psychological need satisfaction, autonomous motivation, and subjective well-being simultaneously across multiple domains were examined. But they focused on the differences and similarities between the many important life domains in which individuals are involved.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the link between narcissism and both SNS activities and motivation for SNSs activities and found that narcissism did not relate to the amount of time spent on SNS, frequency of status updates, posting picture of others, or checking up on social networking friends.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether emotional intelligence mediates the relationship between mindfulness and subjective well-being and found that higher levels of emotional intelligence were associated with higher positive affect, lower negative affect, and greater life satisfaction.

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TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs, paranormal belief, paranoid ideation, and schizotypy, in a study involving 60 females and 60 males aged 18-50.

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TL;DR: This article investigated the relative importance of six emotional intelligence (EI) dimensions in the prediction of psychological resilience to multiple negative life events, including self-awareness, self-expression, emotional control, emotional self-management, and self-control.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the relationship between time perspectives, the Big Five personality traits, and life satisfaction and found that personality traits and time perspectives were both associated with life satisfaction.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between the Big Five factors of personality and dispositional optimism and found strong positive relationships between optimism and four of the Big five factors: Emotional Stability, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness.

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TL;DR: It is hypothesized that people reporting posttraumatic distress and less reliance on experiential avoidance would report greater posttraumatic growth and meaning in life compared with other trauma survivors and results supported these moderation models.

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TL;DR: The authors found that despite the advanced moral competence of bullies, they were woefully deficient with respect to their moral compassion when compared to both victims and defenders, suggesting dissociation between the knowledge that guides abstract moral judgments and the factors that mediate morally appropriate behavior and sentiments.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether trait EI predicts entrepreneurship and whether any effects of EI on entrepreneurship are independent of the personality trait of Core Self-Evaluations, demographic variables, and individual differences in entrepreneurial personality.

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TL;DR: The relationship between traits known collectively as the Dark Triad ( narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) and mating standards and preferences was investigated in this paper. But, the results were limited to a budget allocation task.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a multi-dimensional inventory of sources of meaning (SoMe) to analyze individual differences in meaning-making, and find that commitment to numerous, diverse, and especially selftranscendent sources enhances the probability of living a meaningful life.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how narcissism, a personality trait marked by self-promotion, vanity, and grandiosity, related to how people communicate information about themselves online.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether a conceptual distinction between two components of self-control (inhibitory and initiatory selfcontrol) is empirically valid, and they employed a series of confirmative factor analyses in two samples (total N = 577) to provide support for a distinction between inhibitory and initiation self control, and examined the predictive validity of the two components by regression analyses with (un)desired health/academic behavior as dependent variables.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that Honesty-Humility emerges as a sixth dimension of personality beyond traits similar to the Big Five and could be a unique correlate of job performance.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the influence of trait EI in athletes when they have to face the stress of competition and found that high trait EA athletes experienced a lower increase of stress compared to their low EA counterparts.

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TL;DR: The EQ is an appropriate measure of the construct of empathy and can be measured along a single dimension and suggested that a hierarchical factor of empathy underlies these sub-factors.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between digit length ratios (2D:4D and rel2, the length of the second finger relative to the sum of the lengths of all four fingers) and risk-taking behaviors across five domains: financial, social, recreational, ethical, and health.

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TL;DR: This article showed that substantial portions of the variance in achievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, are explained by personality variables, such as personality personality traits.

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TL;DR: The effects of mindfulness on the relation between neuroticism and depression are examined and high levels of dispositional mindfulness protect against negative effects of neuroticism.