Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2012"

TL;DR: A model suggesting that Facebook use is motivated by two primary needs: (1) The need to belong and (2) the need for self-presentation is proposed.

TL;DR: This paper measured self-promoting Facebook behaviors (e.g., posting status updates and photos of oneself, updating profile information) and several anti-social behaviors (i.e., seeking social support more than one provides it, getting angry when people do not comment on one's status updates, retaliating against negative comments).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether the dark triad is associated with deficits in cognitive or affective empathy as measured through self-reports and facial expressions tasks, and found that primary psychopathy was the main predictor of empathic deficits within the triad.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role the Dark Triad traits, as measures of being a toxic employee, play in predicting tactics of workplace manipulation and how the dark triad might mediate sex differences in the adoption of hard and soft tactics.

TL;DR: A structural model of the inter-relations of inhibition, intelligence and creativity showed a positive relation with creativity measures and inhibition is specifically related to ideational fluency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between the Dark Triad personality traits and bullying behaviors. But, their predictions for the differential correlations between the dark triad facets and bullying type were generally not supported.

TL;DR: In this article, three studies were conducted to develop a 12-item measure to assess a sense of general belongingness, and the results indicated a 2-factor structure (Acceptance/Inclusion and lack of Rejection/Exclusion), with a high inter-factor correlation.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether dispositional mindfulness accounts for variance in psychological symptoms and wellbeing after accounting for the influence of dispositional self-control (the tendency to be self-disciplined, reliable, hardworking, etc.).

TL;DR: This article found that those high on the Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) may adopt a protean approach to interpersonal influence.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to obtain better insight into the associations between attachment styles and psychological well-being, by testing the possible mediating roles of emotion regulation (i.e., reappraisal and suppression) and resilience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the perceived "darkness" of the Dark Triad traits narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, and found that narcissism was perceived as "brighter" than Machiavellianism and Psychopathy in lay people's perceptions, whereas the latter were rated quite similarly.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the manner in which scores on the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) relate to the selection of different mating environments using a budget-allocation task.

TL;DR: The authors found that readers who were more transported into the story exhibited higher affective empathy and were more likely to engage in prosocial behavior, which was related to greater bias toward subtle, fearful facial expressions and decreased perceptual accuracy of fearful expressions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined both the mediation effects of social support and self-esteem for the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and life satisfaction in late adolescence and found that the males with high social support are more likely to gain greater life satisfaction than the female counterparts.

TL;DR: This article investigated associations between the tendency to experience flow (flow proneness), Big Five personality traits and intelligence in two samples and found a negative correlation between flow proneness and neuroticism.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between the three concepts in a sample of 192 participants who had previously had no mindfulness training and found that both emotional regulation abilities and attachment security were related to dispositional mindfulness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors cast resilience as a trait rather than a state, and concluded that salutogenic and pathological responses to trauma show differential associations with trait resilience, whereas resilience was associated positively with growth and negatively with PTSD.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the possibility of gender differences in the relation between emotion dysregulation and anxiety in a community sample of 544 children and adolescents (298 girls and 246 boys) in the age of 9-16 years.

TL;DR: The results suggest that, whereas social anxiety may be associated with using the internet as an alternative to face-to-face communication, such a strategy may result in poorer well-being.

TL;DR: This article found that different elements of the constructs associated with the Dark Triad may reflect different life history strategies, and that these factors differentially correlate with established measures of life history strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the Big 5 personality traits and aggressive behavior has been studied and no work has tested whether that relation is direct or indirect through aggressive attitudes and aggressive emotions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the psychometric properties of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) applied to a sample of 1181 Spanish adults and found that the TIPI exhibited reasonably acceptable properties for measuring the Big Five in terms of test-retest reliability, self-other agreement, factor structure, convergence with the NEO-PI-R and correlations with relevant criteria.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that both core affective-interpersonal, as well as lifestyle-antisocial features of psychopathy are associated with weaker empathic responses to fearful faces.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism in the context of interpersonal circumplex (IPC) and found that GN was most strongly associated with high agency and low communion.

TL;DR: Park et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the dimensions underlying the VIA Character Strengths defined by Peterson and Seligman (2004) and assessed their associations with measures of subjective wellbeing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the roles of the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality and parental attachment in the use of the emotion regulation strategies of Reappraisal and Suppression.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the associations between personality traits and both normal and problematic massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPGs) play, as measured by a self report scale, and found that problematic players were lower in self regulation, dysfunctional impulsivity and agreeableness, suggesting that these traits may be important in the development and maintenance of problematic MMORPG use.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the predictive and incremental validity of trait emotional intelligence (EI) construct in a sample of 1140 pupils aged 11-13 years and found strong concurrent and predictive validity in relation to three measures of socioemotional competence: self-reported psychopathology as assessed by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, a sociometric measure of peer relations, and a peer-assessed measure of social behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and validated a measure of gaming motivation based on Self-Determination Theory, the Gaming Motivation Scale (GAMS), which is designed to assess intrinsic motivation, integrated, identified, introjected, and external regulation, as well as amotivation.