Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2013"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between the Big Five and the use of Facebook to fulfill belonging and self-presentational needs, and found that conscientious individuals are cautious in their online selfpresentation, while neuroticism was positively associated with the expression of ideal and hidden self-aspects.

TL;DR: Although statistically significant, the effect sizes for gender differences in rumination were small in magnitude and there was no evidence of heterogeneity or publication bias across studies for these effect sizes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the optimism-hope relationship and examined several potential correlates and consequences of optimism and hope, and found that optimism is related to several indices of psychological and physical well-being and empirically distinguishable from other personality traits.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey revealed the complex correlational patterns between the Dark Triad traits and two forms of "emotional deficiencies" (i.e., limited empathy and alexithymia) overall and in each sex.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship among the Dark Triad traits and impulsivity and sensation-seeking, and found positive relationships among the dark triad traits, blackjack betting, and steeper temporal discounting.

TL;DR: This paper showed that Honesty-Humility, but not Agreeableness, indeed predicts active cooperation and non-exploitation in the ultimatum game, and they found a pattern of two concurrent selective associations, supporting the theoretical distinction between the two factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between the Dark Triad traits and empathy and found that low empathy rates were related to narcissism in women but psychopathy in men, suggesting different routes to limited empathy for men and women high on the dark triangle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and the stress process and found that higher EI would facilitate stress responses in the direction of challenge, rather than threat.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the process that leads people to offer or omit help in response to an explicit request for assistance, taking into account both emotional and cognitive factors, and highlight the significance of this factor in the avoidance of moral responsibility towards others in need.

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of trait emotional intelligence in life satisfaction was analyzed and the potential mediating effects of resilience and affect balance in this relationship were investigated, and the mediational model was not moderated by gender.

TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of neurofeedback in a range of conditions, including ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, substance use, PTSD, and learning difficulties, has been examined, suggesting it produces some effects worthy of further examination.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured whether entrepreneurs score higher on a narcissism scale than other vocational groups and found that narcissism is positively correlated with general self-efficacy, locus of control and risk propensity.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between empathy, sex and fluid intelligence (FI) as predictors of theory of mind (ToM) in a random probabilistic sample of secondary students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which general cognitive styles explain variance in decision-making competence over and above decision making styles, and the extent that personality explains variance in the decision making competence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the factorial structure and invariance of the Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF) across cultural groups from three nations, namely, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Iran (N = 1120).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the affective mediators of the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and life satisfaction in young adults and the widespread or limited affectives mediators between the different groups in demographic factors, e.g., gender, students and non-students, family conditions.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether the differential effects of humor styles on well-being may be explained by their associations with social support, and whether the weak and inconsistent relationship between aggressive humor and well being may be due to a moderating role of gender.

TL;DR: The Dark Triad Dirty Dozen is a personality inventory designed to measure individual differences in narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism in sub-clinical populations.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of peer attachment and self-esteem in adolescents and emerging adults is presented in this paper, showing significant correlations between peer attachment, consistently found both in studies focused on global attachment as well as in studies including specific attachment dimensions.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that narcissism was inclined towards friendlydominant, Machiavellianism towards hostile-submissive, and psychopathy towards hostiledominant when using multiple regressions.

TL;DR: Dispositional gratitude correlated positively with self-reported physical health and this link was mediated by psychological health, healthy activities, and willingness to seek help for health concerns, but the indirect effects for psychological health and healthy activities were stronger for older than younger adults.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 10-month study prospectively examined the association between mental toughness and stress resilience in 865 students (M = 17.86 years, 42.7% girls) from two vocational schools.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a basic test of a niche-specialization hypothesis of the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between academic performance and cognitive ability, personality traits, and trait emotional intelligence (trait EI or trait emotional self-efficacy) in a sample of 323 (113 female) university students in Cyprus.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether intrinsic-extrinsic work motivation could explain the positive relationship between perfectionism and workaholism and found that self-oriented perfectionism showed a positive correlation with work-aholicness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether the measurement structure underlying trait EI is equivalent across sex and age groups and found that configural, metric, scalar and structural invariance exist across different groups.

TL;DR: In this article, participants were sampled through the Mechanical Turk system to assess the validity and structural properties of the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism).

TL;DR: In this paper, the factorial validity of the Mental Toughness Questionnaire-48 (MTQ48) was assessed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory structural equation modeling, in addition to the robust maximum likelihood estimator.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated relationships among five higher-order strengths factors, subjective well-being, and general selfefficacy in participants that live under challenging conditions, and found that different strengths factors are relevant for different positive experiences (e.g., life satisfaction, self-efficacy beliefs).

TL;DR: In this paper, a retrospective essay appraises J. Philippe Rushton's application of life history to understand the covariation among human traits in light of subsequent developments in the measurement and latent structure of Human Life History, covitality, and personality.