Showing papers on "Revised NEO Personality Inventory published in 2010"

Personality, stress and coping in intensive care nurses: a descriptive exploratory study

Abstract: Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits, perception of workplace stress and coping among intensive care unit (ICU) nurses. Background: Research has indicated that ICUs are stressful environments. There is a tendency for research studies to investigate causes of stress and ways of coping, but few studies, particularly in recent years, have considered the personality traits of the staff who thrive in this challenging environment, the work stress they perceive and the coping strategies they use. Method: A convenience sample of critical care nurses (n = 46) completed three standardised questionnaires during September 2007: the revised NEO personality inventory (NEO-PI-R); the nurses stress scale (NSI) and the Brief Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced (COPE) scale. Findings: ICU nurses did not perceive their workplaces to be stressful. Certain personality traits, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness, were associated with problem-solving coping strategies such as active planning and reframing. Openness and extraversion were associated with less perceived stress from the ‘patients and relatives' dimension of the NSI; there were also negative correlations between conscientiousness and the ‘workload stress' and stress from lack of ‘confidence and competence’ dimensions of the NSI. Conclusion: Certain personality traits may have a buffering effect on workplace stress. Pre-employment screening to identify staff that exhibit personality and coping traits associated with low perceived stress may be considered as part of the recruitment strategy to address problems relating to stress, sickness and retention. Relevance to clinical practice: The retention and recruitment of staff who have lower perceived workplace stress and who utilise problem-focused coping may result in less reported absences and fewer critical incidents and errors.

Development of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ): a factor/facet version of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ)

Abstract: The development of a new 200-item questionnaire based on the theoretical constructs of the alternative Five-factor model of personality is described. We developed the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ) from an initial pool of 537 items. Its final version includes 5 factors with 4 facets per factor and 10 items per facet. Internal consistencies were adequate particularly for the factors. The 1 factor confirmatory factor analyses showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit indexes, but not for the 5 factor simple structure. When incorporating the secondary loadings and the correlated error terms, the model fit improved. A multigroup analysis showed gender differences for the factors Sensation Seeking, Neuroticism, Aggressiveness, and Activity for the Spanish-speaking sample but only for Aggressiveness in the English-speaking sample. We assessed the convergent and discriminant validity of the ZKA-PQ by inspecting correlations with shortened versions of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (Cloninger, 1999) in 2 independent and additional samples. This new instrument may be useful for basic and applied research, including normal personality, psychobiology of personality, personality and clinical disorders, and industrial-organizational psychology.

An Alternative to the Search for Single Polymorphisms: Toward Molecular Personality Scales for the Five-Factor Model

Abstract: There is growing evidence that personality traits are affected by many genes, all of which have very small effects. As an alternative to the largely-unsuccessful search for individual polymorphisms associated with personality traits, we identified large sets of potentially related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and summed them to form molecular personality scales (MPSs) with from 4 to 2,497 SNPs. Scales were derived from two-thirds of a large (N = 3,972) sample of individuals from Sardinia who completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and were assessed in a genome-wide association scan. When MPSs were correlated with the phenotype in the remaining third of the sample, very small but significant associations were found for four of the five personality factors when the longest scales were examined. These data suggest that MPSs for Neuroticism, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness (but not Extraversion) contain genetic information that can be refined in future studies, and the procedures described here should be applicable to other quantitative traits.

Sexual Assault and Rape Perpetration by College Men: The Role of the Big Five Personality Traits

Abstract: A sample of 521 college men completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and an expanded version of the Sexual Experiences Survey to examine whether variation in the Big Five personality traits in a normal, college population provides any insight into the nature of sexual assault and rape perpetrators. Rape perpetrators reported lower levels of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness when compared to both sexual assault perpetrators and nonperpetrators, and lower levels of Extraversion when compared to nonperpetrators. Rape perpetrators also endorsed lower levels of tendermindedness, excitement-seeking, warmth, positive emotions, feelings, altruism, competence, and dutifulness, and higher levels of vulnerability. Contrary to expectation, overall personality profiles followed remarkably comparable patterns for sexual assault and nonperpetrators, suggesting that sexual assault perpetrators were more similar to nonperpetrators than to rape perpetrators. Findings suggest that individuals who perpetrate sexual offenses, particularly rape, differ from nonperpetrators on dimensions of normal personality. Clinical and research implications are discussed.

How people see others is different from how people see themselves: a replicable pattern across cultures.

Abstract: Consensus studies from 4 cultures--in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, and Germany--as well as secondary analyses of self- and observer-reported Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) data from 29 cultures suggest that there is a cross-culturally replicable pattern of difference between internal and external perspectives for the Big Five personality traits. People see themselves as more neurotic and open to experience compared to how they are seen by other people. External observers generally hold a higher opinion of an individual's conscientiousness than he or she does about him- or herself. As a rule, people think that they have more positive emotions and excitement seeking but much less assertiveness than it seems from the vantage point of an external observer. This cross-culturally replicable disparity between internal and external perspectives was not consistent with predictions based on the actor-observer hypothesis because the size of the disparity was unrelated to the visibility of personality traits. A relatively strong negative correlation (r = -.53) between the average self-minus-observer profile and social desirability ratings suggests that people in most studied cultures view themselves less favorably than they are perceived by others.

Demand Effects on Positive Response Distortion by Police Officer Applicants on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory

Abstract: Understanding and detecting response distortion is important in the high-demand circumstances of personnel selection. In this article, we describe positive response distortion on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) among police officer applicants under high and low demand conditions. Positive response distortion primarily reflected denial/minimization of Neuroticism and accentuation of traits associated with moralistic bias (Agreeableness and Conscientiousness). Validity of the NEO PI-R research validity scale, Positive Presentation Management, was weakly supported with respect to the Neuroticism domain only. Results will be useful in interpreting personality inventory results in the police personnel selection process.

An observational investigation of poker style and the five-factor personality model.

Abstract: Little empirical investigation has been made of the relationship between personality and gambling play style. In an observation of on-table poker behavior, this study classified 44 players competing in an amateur league (43 male; mean age 32) according to two main dimensions of play style; tight or loose and aggressive or passive. Superstitious beliefs towards the game were additionally measured. The NEO-PI-R questionnaire (Costa and McCrae, Revised NEO personality inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO-five factor inventory (NEO-FFI) professional manual, 1992) was used to measure personality according to the five-factor model. Results showed players with superstitious beliefs to be significantly higher in neuroticism and lower in conscientiousness and than those with no superstitious beliefs. Results approaching significance showed players adopting an aggressive style to be higher in extraversion than passive players and superstitious players to be lower in extraversion than non-superstitious players. Analysis of play style according to age of player revealed a significantly higher mean age among loose compared to tight players. Implications of results concerning validity of these style classifications and potential development in future work are discussed.

Cross-cultural personality assessment: The Revised NEO Personality Inventory in China

Abstract: The Mandarin Chinese version of Costa and McCrae’s (1992) Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) was used to survey 473 people from 9 occupational groups in mainland China. Internal consistency was adequate for almost all dimensions. Correlations with occupation and gender sustained the validity of NEO-PI-R. The differences of mean value between Chinese participants and an American sample (Costa & McCrae, 1992) were significant in 4 dimensions. However, further validation of the 5-factor model for the assessment of personality in China is needed.

Neuroticism but not omega-3 fatty acid levels correlate with early responsiveness to escitalopram

Abstract: BACKGROUND Omega-3 fatty acid (O3FA) levels and dimensional personality measures have been associated with major depression and the course of depressive illness. We sought to study the utility of O3FA levels and dimensional personality measures as predictors of early improvement with escitalopram. METHODS Twenty-four participants were enrolled in an open-label trial of escitalopram 10 mg/d for 4 weeks. Baseline erythrocyte O3 levels and dimensional personality assessments were obtained. RESULTS Using a conservative, intention-to-treat analysis, baseline neuroticism (r = -0.57; P = .007), as measured by the Revised NEO Personality Inventory but not erythrocyte O3 levels, was correlated with improvements on escitalopram. A facet analysis of the neuroticism domain showed the relationship with antidepressant response to be focused on trait anxiety (r = -0.65; P = .002). CONCLUSIONS Anxiety may have important prognostic implications on subsequent response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, such as escitalopram.

Exploring the relationship between religious orientation and the Five Factor Model of personality in a sample of university students

Abstract: This study explored the relationship between the Five Factor Model of personality as operationalised by the Revised NEo Personality Inventory and religious orientation as operationalised by the Religious orientation Scale in a sample of 91 undergraduate psychology students at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. The relationship between religious affiliation and religious orientation as well as the relationship between religious affiliation and the Five Factor Model of personality were explored. Significant relationships were found between intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation and the openness and Agreeableness domains. Furthermore significant differences were found between religiously- and nonreligiously affiliated individuals in terms of both personality and religious orientation.

Croatian norms for the NEO PI-R : Revised NEO Personality Inventory

Abstract: Norme za NEO inventar licnosti za mlade, oblik S, izracunate su na temelju podataka prikupljenih na uzorku od 459 ucenika zavrsnog razreda srednje skole - 229 mladica i 230 djevojaka, u dobi od 17 do 20 godina. Ispitivanje je provedeno u Zagrebu i cetiri manja grada u Hrvatskoj.

Replicabilidad del Modelo Factorial de los Cinco Grandes y la Asertividad en México

Abstract: We investigated (a) the replicability in Mexico of the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality; (b) the replicability of the Multidimensional Assertiveness scale (MAS; Flores-Galaz, 1989); and (c) the extent to which these assetiveness dimensions are encompassed by the FFM or culture specific.. Mexican university students (n=794) completed the MAS and the Spanish version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992). The FFM model replicated well in explanatory factor analyses. Exploratory factor analyses and factor congruence across Mexican subsamples (n=400; n=394) were used to determine the number of replicate factors in the MAS. Reliability estimates were comparable qith those reported by the original test authors. In multiple regression and joint factor analyses, the MAS dimension were well encompassed by the FFM and thus not very culture specific. The cultural salience of assertiveness constructs in the Mexican context was discussed.

The research about the relationship between emotional labor and personality of health care workers

Abstract: Objective To explore the relationship between the emotional labor and personality of the health care workers. Methods 168 health care workers in 6 hospitals of Shandong province were surveyed to complete the Emotional Labor Scale and the revised NEO personality inventory(NEO-PI-R). Results The first strategy of emotional labor that workers usually used was natural acting (5.17±1.15),the next one was deep act-ing (4.74±0.78) and the last was surface acting(3.88±1.21). The correlation analysis showed that the extro-version had a negative correlation (r=-0.20, P < 0.05) with the surface acting and a positive correlation (r=0. 31, P<0.01) with the deep acting. The agreeableness had a positive correlation (r=0.22, P < 0.05) with the nat-ural acting. The conscientiousness had a positive correlation (r=0.25, P<0.05) with the deep acting. The extro-version had significant negative influence on surface acting and significant positive influence on deep acting. The a-greeableness had positive significant effect on natural acting and the conscientiousness had positive significant effect on deep acting. Conclusion Personality influenced the emotional labor and gender,age,work tenure and ed-ucational had significant effect on emotional labor. Key words: Big-five personality ; Emotional labor ; Surface acting ; Deep acting ; Natural acting ;