Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2016"
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TL;DR: In this article, a large sample of previously published meta-analytically derived correlations is used to evaluate Cohen's effect size guidelines from an empirical perspective, and it is suggested that Cohen's correlation guidelines are too exigent, as r ǫ = 0.10, 0.20, and 0.50 were recommended to be considered small, medium and large in magnitude, respectively.
1,212 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the potential mediating role of resilience in the impact of mindfulness on life satisfaction and affect as indices of subjective well-being has been investigated by extending the previous literature.
231 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified the motivations that drive selfie-posting behavior and examined the roles of the selfie posting motivations and narcissism in predicting selfie posting behavior and found that the motivations of attention seeking, communication, and archiving as well as narcissism significantly predicted selfie posting intention while narcissism was the only significant predictor of selfie posting frequency.
213 citations
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that mindfulness is significantly associated with pro-environmental behavior and that connectedness to nature indirectly affects the relationship between mindfulness and proenvironmental behaviour. But, they did not find a significant correlation between the two factors.
193 citations
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TL;DR: The authors explored personality traits and social motivations associated with individuals who engage in online trolling, specifically on the SNS Facebook® and found that individual trolling behaviour may be better explained by negative social reward motivation than negative personality traits.
174 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the mediating role of hope on the association between psychological vulnerability, resilience, and subjective well-being was examined and it was found that hope partially mediated the impact of psychological vulnerability on subjective wellbeing.
170 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an assessment of the structural properties of these questionnaires in the light of theoretical issues, operational translations, and factor analytic solutions, highlighting the different theoretical perspectives underlying these descriptive models.
164 citations
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TL;DR: Based on a meta-analysis, this paper found that leaders' emotional intelligence positively relates to subordinates' job satisfaction and mediates the relationship between leaders' EI and subordinates' satisfaction.
143 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose novelty as a basic psychological need in self-determination theory and develop a new measure to assess novelty need satisfaction, the Novelty Need Satisfaction Scale (NNSS).
142 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determine whether the HEXACO model best accounts for the core of dark-personality traits with the addition of sadism and find that the core is represented by low HonestyHumility, Emotionality, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness, with Honesty-Humility having the largest impact.
136 citations
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TL;DR: A critical review of dispositional mindfulness is presented in this article, which examines historical context, operational definitions, measurement, and convergent and discriminant validity across personality domains, concluding that it is a multidimensional construct reflecting the focus and quality of attention, appears to exist independently from other forms of mindfulness, such as learned or cultivated mindfulness, and demonstrates associations with well-established personality traits.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a multilevel meta-analysis of 89 correlations obtained from 20 samples in studies published between 1977 and 2015 and demonstrate a statistically significant but relatively weak correlation between these two constructs.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the mediation effects of self-esteem on the association between mindfulness and anxiety and depression, using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and found that mindfulness exerted its indirect effect on depression through selfesteem.
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TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that social exhibitionism and extraversion generally predicted the frequency of online selfie-posting in men and women, however they found no strong evidence for a relationship between self-esteem and selfie posting behavior among women, and only weak evidence among men.
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TL;DR: Kim et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the relationship between narcissism and Instagram users' self-promoting behavior and found that individuals higher in narcissism tended to post selfies and self-presented photos, update their profile picture more often, and spend more time on Instagram.
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TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature search identified twelve eligible studies yielding an aggregated sample size of 13,389 and reported significant group differences in one or multiple Big Five personality traits.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether self-esteem mediates the relationship between mindfulness and well-being, and found that selfesteem partially mediated the relation between negative affect and positive affect.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether narcissism and self-esteem are related to different patterns of Facebook use, and found that selfesteem and narcissism can be predictors of Facebook personal importance.
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TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between stress, anxiety, and belief in conspiracy theories in a sample of 420 U.S. adults and found that more stressful life events and greater perceived stress predicted belief in conspiratorial theories, once effects of social status and age were accounted for.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed to test the relationship between corporate psychopathy traits and abusive supervision, employees' job satisfaction and intention to quit their job and found that psychopathy may be an underlying factor explaining abusive supervision which is detrimental to employee attitudes.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-lagged analysis of a two-wave, representative panel survey was conducted to understand whether narcissists take selfies as an outlet for maintaining their positive self-views (the self-selection hypothesis), or if by taking selfies' users would increase their level of narcissism (the media effect hypothesis).
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between self-compassion, hope and life satisfaction in a sample of Chinese adults, and found that selfcompassion was positively associated with hope, and also hope was associated with life satisfaction.
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TL;DR: This paper found that women tend to be more environmentally concerned because they are less prone to favour social dominance than men, which is in line with recent research showing that empathy and social dominance orientation (SDO) are intrinsically linked.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of leaders' Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) on employees' objective career success and subjective career success.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the meditation-happiness relationship and examine which mindfulness and self-compassion facets are better predictors of happiness, and find that significant indirect effects were found for observing, self-kindness and common humanity.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined both the moderating effects of moral reasoning and gender on the relation between moral disengagement and cyberbullying in Chinese adolescents, and found that moral reasoning moderated the association between moral engagement and cyber bullying.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the psychometric properties of five Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) personality questionnaires, with a total sample of 821 participants, taken from the factor structures for the Croatian translations of BIS/BAS scales, SPSRQ, Jackson-5, RSQ and RST-PQ.
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TL;DR: The authors examined the role of social dominance orientation (SDO) in explaining conservative denial of human influence on climate change and found that males are more likely to deny human influence than females.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the link between ability emotional intelligence (EI), positive and negative affect, and life satisfaction in a relatively wide sample of 721 Spanish undergraduate students.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess whether the Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) add significantly to the prediction of misconduct and the propensity to engage in high-stakes deception.