Revised NEO Personality Inventory

About: Revised NEO Personality Inventory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 494 publications have been published within this topic receiving 44504 citations.

A Study of the Relationship of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies, Self- Esteem and Personality Traits with Self-Efficacy

Abstract: Self-efficacy is an important influence on human achievement in a wide variety of settings, including education, health, sports, and work. Students' self-efficacy, which refers to students' beliefs about what they can do in terms of a particular task or context, has likewise been shown to influence motivational and behavioral processes. The purpose of the present research was to examine relationships of self-regulated learning strategies, self-esteem and personality traits with self-efficacy of 2 nd Grade students of Bushehr's High Schools. The relevant sample consisted of 150 students of high school and selected through a randomly sampling. The instruments used in this research consisted of Self-Efficacy Scale, Self-Regulated Learning Strategies Questionnaire, Self-Esteem Inventory and the revised NEO Personality Inventory. The results indicated that there were significant relationships between self-regulated learning strategies, self-esteem and personality traits variables with self-efficacy. Also, to determine the contribution of each of the variables was used the multiple regression analysis. The results of regression analysis showed that for predicting self-efficacy, the best predictive variables were self-regulated learning strategies, conscientiousness and agreeableness orderly. Also, from among types of self-regulated learning strategies for predicting self-efficacy, the best predictive variables were note taking, self-evaluation and goal setting orderly. Therefore, in accordance with the results, the most important variable was self-regulation learning strategy. When that students monitoring on progress and used suitable learning strategies and setting goal, in turn, influenced on self-efficacy. Also, conscientiousness trait plays important role in student's efficacy.

Relationship between Frustration Intolerance and Personality Dimensions

Abstract: Frustration is a negative state triggered by unexpected reward loss with behavioral, emotional and motivational components. Frustration Intolerance (FI) has been considered a vulnerability marker for psychopathology, its impact being modulated by personality dimensions. In this study, the relationship between FI and personality dimensions was analyzed in 640 undergraduate students. The reduced version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire assessed personality dimensions. The Investigative Scale of Tolerance to Frustration, the Frustration Discomfort Scale, and the Frustrative Nonreward Responsiveness Scale assessed the behavioral, emotional and motivational components of FI, respectively. Descriptive, reliability, Pearson and partial correlation analyses were conducted. Regardless of the frustration component assessed, FI consistently and positively correlated with Neuroticism, Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward. The relationship between FI and other personality dimensions seemed to be dependent on the particular FI assessment instrument used and on the corresponding component involved: Behavioral FI correlated positively with Extraversion and negatively with Openness and Agreeableness, whereas the relationship between these personality dimensions and emotional and motivational FI was not so clear. Therefore, a systematic analysis of the components of FI seems to be necessary to understand its relationship with personality

Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: Ways to Win over Skeptical Patients; to Best Help Them, Clearly Explain the Diagnosis and Treat Underlying Disorders

Abstract: Many patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) dismiss the idea that their seizures are psychogenic, especially if the correct diagnosis comes after years of treatment for epilepsy. (1) In a recent study of 164 patients diagnosed with PNES, 82% were readmitted to neurologic wards within the next 10 years. (2) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Getting patients to accept the diagnosis and appropriate treatment is possible, however. Depending on the severity of PNES' nearly ubiquitous psychiatric comorbidities, you may be able to defuse patients' anger by following protocols for presenting the PNES diagnosis, as described here. You can help PNES patients by: * differentiating PNES from other conditions * educating them to accept that psychological distress, not epilepsy, is causing their seizures * treating underlying psychiatric illness. CASE STUDY Is it epilepsy? Ms. P, age 61, is referred to a comprehensive epilepsy program for evaluation of unusual spells she's had since age 7 or 8. In childhood, the spells consisted of "spacey feelings" and epigastric discomfort. In her 30s she began to have other neurologic symptoms, such as numbness and tingling all over her body. At approximately age 50 she began experiencing confusional episodes lasting 1 to 2 minutes. A neurologist evaluated Ms. P after she had a spell while hospitalized for angiography at age 59. This spell consisted of left hand shaking and stiffness and inability to respond without loss of awareness. Her spells decreased briefly after she was prescribed topiramate, 100 mg bid, but became increasingly more frequent and severe. MRI indicated an abnormality of the right mesiotemporal lobe with subcortical cystic changes and slight atrophy. PET indicated subtle hypoperfusion of the right medial temporal lobe. She was referred to the epilepsy program with a diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy. Comorbid psychopathology is the rule Although the precise incidence of PNES is unknown (Box 1), (1,3,4) nearly 100% of PNES patients have a history of psychiatric illness (Table 1). (5) The most commonly reported Axis I diagnoses are: * somatoform or dissociative disorders * affective disorders * anxiety disorders, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (1) Depression is independently associated with poor quality of life whether patients have epilepsy or PNES. (6) Maladaptive personalities. Personality disorders frequently are associated with PNES. (1) One systematic assessment of 45 PNES patients found that the most common personality presentation is not a single disorder but a confluence of maladaptive personality traits. (5) In addition to DSM-IV-TR criteria, researchers have used other standard psychological assessments to examine PNES patients' personality traits. Typical results on the most commonly applied instrument--the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI/MMPI-2) (7)--show marked elevations on the hysteria and hypochondriasis scale and a less marked elevation on the depression scale, which forms the classic conversion V pattern. Nonconversion patterns also have been reported. (8) Studies conducted with the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Basic Questionnaire (DAPP-BQ) and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) seem to confirm clusters of maladaptive personality styles among PNES patients. (7,8) Regardless of assessment technique, a PNES patient's personality tends to include emotional dysregulation and poor coping style. Reuber et al (2) found that PNES patients' outcomes may be correlated with different personality feature clusters. Patients who scored lower on the high-order personality dimensions--inhibitedness, emotional dysregulation, and compulsivity--had fewer psychiatric hospitalizations and were more likely to be seizure-free at follow-up. …

Personality and insomnia symptoms in older adults: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.

Abstract: Study objective To examine associations of personality dimensions and facets with insomnia symptoms in a community sample of older adults. Methods We studied 1,049 participants aged 60-97 years in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Personality was assessed by the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), and insomnia symptom severity was measured by the Women's Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale (WHIIRS). Results Adjusting for demographic characteristics, higher neuroticism, lower conscientiousness, and lower extraversion were associated with greater insomnia symptom severity. These associations remained significant for neuroticism and conscientiousness when further adjusting for depressive symptoms and comorbidities. Higher scores on neuroticism facets Anxiety, Angry Hostility, and Depression, and lower scores on conscientiousness facets Competence, Order, and Achievement-Striving and on agreeableness facet Altruism were associated with greater insomnia symptom severity in fully adjusted models. Results were similar among cognitively normal older adults (N=966), except higher scores on extraversion facets Warmth and Assertiveness associated with lower insomnia symptom severity, and agreeableness facet Altruism was unassociated. Conclusion Among older adults, insomnia symptoms appear partially related to personality, with persons higher in neuroticism experiencing greater insomnia symptom severity, and those higher in conscientiousness experiencing lower insomnia symptom severity. Exploring facets of the Big Five dimensions may provide additional insight regarding the etiology and resolution of sleep disturbance, and some of these associations may differ based on cognitive status. Future studies should investigate the hypothesis that sleep impairment mediates part of the association between specific personality traits and health-related outcomes.