Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2014"

TL;DR: In two online studies as mentioned in this paper, respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of their Internet commenting styles, and strong positive associations emerged among online commenting frequency, trolling enjoyment and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the measures.

TL;DR: Ahmetoglu et al. as discussed by the authors examined the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and a wider range of entrepreneurial outcomes (e.g., founding charitable organizations, organizing events, and changing organisational practices).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship among employees' perceptions of psychopathic traits in their supervisors, employee psychological distress, work-family conflict, and job satisfaction using B-Scan 360, a measure of corporate psychopathy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the emergence and popularity of the Dark Triad reflect the importance of these characteristics and their underrepresentation in five-dimensional models of personality.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and tertiary academic performance was performed, and the strongest predictor of GPA was conscientiousness with a weighted summary effect of.26.

TL;DR: This article found that right-wing ideology predicts greater acceptance of animal exploitation and more meat consumption through two explaining mechanisms: perceived threat from non-exploitive ideologies to the dominant carnist ideology and belief in human superiority over animals.

TL;DR: Results suggest that generic mindfulness-based strategies could have ancillary benefits for encouraging healthier eating behavior, and preliminary evidence that mindfulness affects eating behavior by encouraging attitudinal preferences for healthier foods is found.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical analysis of the functions values fulfill is described by focusing on two widely accepted value functions: values guide actions and express needs; the interplay between these two functions yields a three-by-two framework differentiating values according to their pursued goals (personal, central or social goals) or their expressed needs (survival or thriving needs).

TL;DR: In this article, a modified version of the program, "Managing Occupational Stress through the Development of Emotional Intelligence" (Hansen, Gardner, & Stough, 2007), was administered to pre-service teachers over a five-week period.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of ability and trait emotional intelligence (EI), fluid intelligence, and personality traits in career decision-making selfefficacy, career indecision and indecisiveness was investigated.

TL;DR: This article examined whether social support derived from an online social network (Facebook) had incremental value in predicting subjective well-being over and above offline social support in socially anxious and non-socially anxious individuals.

TL;DR: Examination of the relationship between intelligence and different indicators of creative potential and of creative achievement by means of segmented regression analysis confirmed the threshold hypothesis for qualitative indicators of Creative potential and obtained evidence that once the intelligence threshold is met, personality factors become more predictive for creativity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the model of relationships between dispositional mindfulness, core self-evaluations and life satisfaction in a sample of Chinese adults and find that mindfulness significantly predicted core selfevaluations, and that the paths in the mediation model were not moderated by gender.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the semantic representations of Facebook status updates of 304 individuals in order to predict self-reported personality, focusing on, besides Neuroticism and Extraversion, the Dark Triad of personality: Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the potential sequential mediation effects of affect and self-esteem on the association between trait resilience and psychological adjustment, as indexed by life satisfaction and psychological distress.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of fluid intelligence, personality traits and different models of emotional intelligence in relation to core self-evaluation, resilience and life satisfaction was investigated in Italian high school students.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between personality traits and self-presentation at Facebook and found that extraversion was positively related to self-Presentation both on Wall and at News Feed.

TL;DR: The authors explored the role of trait emotional intelligence (EI) in emotion regulation and performance under pressure and found that trait EI was found to predict cortisol secretion over state emotion measures.

TL;DR: The findings confirmed the reliability of MHC-SF, external validity, three-dimensional structure of subjective well-being, and supported two-continua model of mental health, where mental health and mental illness are two related but distinguishable dimensions, not at the ends of the same continuum.

TL;DR: The authors found that high materialists find it harder to be grateful, and lower levels of trait gratitude may be related to unmet psychological needs, while need satisfaction played an indirect role through its relationship with gratitude.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that psychopathy and Machiavellianism were unique predictors of infidelity among women, whereas only psychopathy uniquely predicted infidelity in men.

TL;DR: The authors examined whether positive psychological states (defined by the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) and the Diener Satisfaction With Life (SWL) scales) assisted differentiation relative to general personality traits and the "Dark Triad" (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism), measured by the D12 and Short Dark Triad (SD3) indices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relation between each of these traits, vengefulness, empathy, and trait forgiveness, and found that Machiavellianism and psychopathy were positively correlated with emotional vengeance, but negatively correlated with justice-fairness and justice-legal decisions.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between the Dark Triad traits (i.e., psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) and domain-general and domain specific measures of deception.

TL;DR: This article examined whether socio-emotional intelligence (SEI) is associated with emotional manipulation of others when used by dark personalities (Dark Triad: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy).

TL;DR: For example, this article found that negative affect intensity indirectly predicted drinking to cope through lack of emotional clarity and limited emotional strategies, with no moderation by sample, and that problems in clearly identifying specific emotional experiences appear to be important in predicting drinking-to-cope for people who experience intense negative emotions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and deception in domain-general and domain-specific contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how variation in facial femininity, breast size, and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) affects perceived competition and attractiveness judgments in a sample of German female undergraduates.

TL;DR: In this article, individual differences in social dominance orientation accounted for the association between speciesist and ethnic outgroup attitudes; that is, these variables are associated due to their common association with social dominance orientations that underpins these biases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether dark triad constructs predict self-reported violence and found that agreeableness was the strongest negative predictor of violence and explained the majority of variance in violence scores.