Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2019"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the relationship between perceived organizational politics, knowledge hiding, and employee creativity and examine the moderating role of professional commitment in the relation between organizational politics and knowledge hiding.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role played by action-oriented personality traits (i.e. trait competitiveness and proactive personality) in the transition from opportunity recognition to entrepreneurial action and found that entrepreneurial alertness significantly influenced entrepreneurial intentions, which subsequently resulted in entrepreneurial action.

TL;DR: Whole Trait Theory (WTT) as discussed by the authors was developed as an integrative model of traits that incorporates mechanisms of differential reaction to situations, providing an explanatory account to the Big 5 (defined in terms of density distributions of personality states) creates two parts to traits, an explanatory part and a descriptive part.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that factoring user's personality greatly improves cyberbullying detection mechanisms, and specifically, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism, and psychopathy were found to be significant in detecting bullies.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a systematic review of the evidence for these relationships and found 26 studies which reveal these traits are related to trolling, cyberaggression, cyber-loafing, sending unsolicited explicit images, cyberbullying, problematic social media usage, problematic online gaming, problematic internet use, internet-use disorder, social media addiction, intimate partner cyberstalking, technology facilitated sexual violence, and technology facilitated infidelity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the mediation role of resilience and self-esteem in the relationship between social exclusion and life satisfaction in high school adolescents and found positive and significant relationships between resilience, life satisfaction and selfesteem.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the existence of different profiles of emotional intelligence according to their dimensions (Attention, Understanding and Repair) and verify whether there are significant differences between the profiles regarding burnout, anxiety, depression, and stress in teachers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and emotion regulation strategies and found that higher levels of extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were associated with greater typically adaptive emotion regulation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a systematic review of the literature on attachment and relationship satisfaction and identified 132 eligible studies that were included in this meta-analysis, which confirmed the fact that there is a negative relationship between attachment insecurity, and that the actor effect is stronger compared to the partner level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors hypothesize how research in personality psychology will change with the recent emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which manifold data from human-machine-interaction can be used to predict psychological traits and states.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that the school-specific measure of grit accounted for significant amounts of incremental variance in respondents' grade point average beyond the variance explained by the global measure, indicating that there is merit to conceptualizing and measuring grit as a domain-specific construct in different achievement domains.

TL;DR: In this paper, a subset of workers may give only meaningful responses to these checks while giving noncompliant responses to the other questions, and this selectively responsive subset can be detected on the HEXACO personality inventory.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the cognitive correlates of intellectual humility and found that cognitive flexibility, measured with objective behavioural assessments, predicted intellectual humility, while intelligence was also predictive of intellectual self-awareness and respect for opposing opinions.

TL;DR: The Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (BERQ) as mentioned in this paper was developed to assess one's behavioral style or strategies of responding to stressful events to regulate emotions, and the results suggest that it is important to pay attention to behavioral coping in the development of intervention programs.

TL;DR: In this article, the utility of gender, primary psychopathy, sadism (direct and vicarious), affective empathy, cognitive empathy, negative social potency, and Vulnerable Dark Triad traits (i.e., secondary psychopath, vulnerable narcissism, and borderline personality traits) could predict additional variance.

TL;DR: A review of the BJW-self literature can be found in this article, where the authors outline the fundamental tenants of justice motive theory and the chronology of BJW self research.

TL;DR: This article examined the effect of social comparison that takes place on Facebook on two aspects of well-being: state self-esteem and depression, and found a causal link between exposure to the social content presented on Facebook and negative psychological outcomes.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the potential moderating role of online disinhibition in the associations between adolescents' callous-unemotional traits (callousness, uncaring, unemotional) and anonymous and non-anonymous cyberbullying.

TL;DR: This paper found that more greedy individuals find a variety of transgressions more acceptable and justifiable as well as indicate that they have more often engaged in a different transgressions compared to less greedy individuals.

TL;DR: This paper evaluated dispositional mindfulness, a personality characteristic relating to nonjudgmental attentiveness to thoughts and feelings in the moment, as a moderator of the relationship between boredom proneness and negative emotional symptoms.

TL;DR: The authors examined how implicit theories of emotion were associated with positive and negative indicators of well-being via cognitive reappraisal and found that entity theory of emotion was negatively associated with negative emotions, anxiety, and depression, while at the same time being positively associated with life satisfaction and positive emotions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-cultural dataset of 30 diverse societies spanning the WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) and non-WEIRD cultures was used to test measurement invariance of the short-form of the moral foundations questionnaire.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the direct and indirect associations of trait EI with problematic social media use (PSMU) and problematic online gaming (POG) among a sample of 470 adolescents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationships among the Dark Tetrad personality traits (psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, sadism), impulsivity, and social media addiction.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper found that envy was positively related to problematic smartphone use and FOMO mediated this relationship. But little is known regarding the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying the relationship.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dynamic approach to personality represented in the PersDyn model, which combines within-person and between-person differences, and argue that the dynamic approach represented in this model has the potential to integrate different perspectives on individual differences.

TL;DR: The authors found that right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is a predictor of beliefs in conspiracy theories (CTs), and that the gap in the predictive power of RWA can be explained by differences in attitudes toward their alleged perpetrators, highlighting the importance of intergroup attitudes as an important driver of CT endorsement.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis was performed to examine the three central themes of the perfectionism cognition theory and found that both self-oriented perfectionism and socially prescribed perfectionism are correlated with rumination and worry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted three studies to test a mediation model, which suggests that Subclinical Narcissism (SN) may increase Mental Toughness (MT) resulting in positive outcomes such as lower psychopathy, higher school grades and lower symptoms of depression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and validated an assessment of aloneliness and explored its role in the links between motivations for solitude, time spent alone, and wellbeing, and concluded that the validity and theoretical utility of aloneness in elucidating the complex associations being solitude and wellbeing.