Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2017"

TL;DR: This article investigated whether extraversion, neuroticism, attachment style, and fear of missing out (FOMO) were predictors of social media use and addiction and found that FOMO was not significant for social media addiction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed whether the Big Five, Dark Triad and sadism predict traditional bullying and cyberbullying, and found that agreeableness, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy and sadness are significantly related to traditional bullying.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the dynamic nature of the resilience process as an interaction between individuals and their larger socio-ecological context, and introduce a novel, multi-systems model of resilience that addresses limitations within existing models, clarifies ambiguity brought on by heterogeneous definitions of resilience, and recognizes resilience as a process across the lifespan.

TL;DR: The authors found that lower depression severity predicted increased smartphone use over the week and greater use of expressive suppression as an emotion regulation strategy predicted more baseline smartphone use, but less smartphone use during the week.

TL;DR: Techniques that allow disentangling between-subject networks, which encode dynamics that involve stable individual differences, from within-subject Networks, which encoded dynamics that involved momentary levels of certain individual characteristics are introduced.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the indirect effect of partner phubbing on depression via relationship satisfaction and the moderating role of relationship length in this indirect effect, and they found that relationship satisfaction had a negative effect on depression.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the mediating effect of resilience and moderating effect in the relation between bullying victimization and symptoms of depression in Chinese children in grade 3 to grade 6.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored and extended the personality profile of Internet trolls and found that men were more likely than women to engage in trolling, and higher levels of trait psychopathy and sadism predicted trolling behaviour.

TL;DR: In this article, a 28-item questionnaire (the OLIW) is proposed that assesses four basic components of playfulness: Other-directed, lighthearted, intellectual, and humorous playfulness.

TL;DR: The mate switching hypothesis as discussed by the authors suggests that these circumstances created adaptive problems throughout human evolution that forged adaptations to anticipate and appraise opportunities to mate-switch, implement exit strategies, and manage challenges confronted in the aftermath.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether two ideological beliefs, namely, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), uniquely predicted Trump support and voting intentions for Clinton, using a sample of American adults.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors designed and validated a questionnaire to measure passive and active Facebook use, and explore the associations of these factors with the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) of personality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the associations between religiosity, generalized self-efficacy, mental health, and happiness using Arab college students, and found that participants who see themselves as religious are more likely to see selfefficacious and to have higher levels of mental health and happiness.

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative theoretical model of alexithymia, the attention-appraisal model, was proposed, which aligns the Toronto and Amsterdam models with recent advances in the broader emotion regulation field.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the concern that partialling changes the conceptual meaning of PS and explain how the relations of residual PS (i.e., PS with PC partialled out) differ from those of PS, and how to interpret these differences.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the announcement speeches of the top nine Republican contenders as of October, 2015 and found that Donald Trump benefited from all these aspects of campaign communication style, including first person pronouns, pitch dynamics, and informal communication.

TL;DR: This article examined the effect of trait epistemic curiosity on the creative problem solving process and found that diversive curiosity positively predicted ratings of both solution quality and originality beyond established predictors of creative performance (gender, personality, domain expertise, and GMA).

TL;DR: This paper developed a self-report measure, the Assessment of Sadistic Personality (ASP), which measures the dark triad, agreeableness, honesty-humility, emotional intelligence, and sadistic tendencies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors designed and validated the Interpersonal Behaviours Questionnaire (IBQ and IBQ-Self), which assesses perceptions of interpersonal behaviours of others according to Self-Determination Theory.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether emotional intelligence (EI) is related to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB), and found that EI is positively associated with OCB and negatively related to CWB.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of the five factor model with the aim to understand which personality traits predict academic procrastination and found that extraversion and neuroticism are related to active procrastinating.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship of emotional intelligence with job performance was investigated in 188 individuals working as expatriates, and most identified relationships were of quadratic U-shaped form.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of personality traits as correlates of exposure to workplace harassment was examined by means of meta-analysis, showing that exposure to harassment was positively associated with neuroticism and agreeableness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether anxiety mindset would moderate relations between history of stressful life events and psychological distress and coping, and found that those with more of a growth mindset were more likely to be less likely to commit suicide.

TL;DR: This article examined perceived organizational support as a moderator of the relationship between the Dark Triad personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy with specific types of counterproductive work behavior (i.e., sabotage, production deviance, withdrawal, theft, and abuse).

TL;DR: This article investigated the relation between grandiose narcissism and 12 self-presentation tactics (as measured by the Self-Presentation Tactics Scale) and found that vulnerable narcissism was associated with a heightened use of both assertive and defensive self-displaying tactics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how the Five-Factor Model of personality relates to both Tinder use and motives and found that single Tinder users are more extraverted and open to new experiences than single non-users.

TL;DR: Three major concepts are discussed: lack of a clear, explanatory framework, problems of measurement, and a failure to link learning styles to achievement.

TL;DR: A recent qualitative investigation in the Philippines suggests that a triarchic model of grit may be more appropriate, with dimensions of perseverance of effort, consistency of interests, and adaptability to situations as mentioned in this paper.