What Laypeople Think the Big Five Trait Labels Mean
Publication date: Available online 6 January 2019Source: Journal of Research in PersonalityAuthor(s): Judith A. Hall, Katja Schlegel, Vanessa L. Castro, Mitja BackAbstractWe asked what laypeople think the commonly used Big Five trait labels mean, and how well their beliefs match the content of standard Big Five scales. Study 1 established participants’ familiarity with the Big Five trait labels. In Studies 2 and 3, participants described persons high on the traits using a free response format. Responses were sorted into categories (facets), each of which earned a centrality index defined as the proportion of responses fo...
Source: Journal of Research in Personality - January 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dispositional traits and internal migration: Personality as a predictor of migration in Australia
This study analyses a large longitudinal panel dataset (HILDA, or the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) to assess the extent to which personality traits predict four constructs pertaining to the migration decision: intention to migrate, certainty around intention, migration outcomes, and the strength of association between migration intention and subsequent migration outcomes. Results show small but significant effects of Extraversion and Openness on both migration and intention to migrate. Openness negatively predicted certainty around intention, and Conscientiousness related to the extent to which migrat...
Source: Journal of Research in Personality - December 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Actor, partner, and similarity effects of personality on global and experienced well-being
Publication date: Available online 24 December 2018Source: Journal of Research in PersonalityAuthor(s): William J. Chopik, Richard E. LucasAbstractThe current study examined actor, partner, and similarity effects of personality on a variety of well-being indices, including both global and experiential measures of well-being in 2,578 heterosexual couples (N = 5,156 individuals; Mage = 51.04, SD = 13.68) who completed the 2016 Wellbeing and Daily Life supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Among actor effects, those for conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism were the most robust pre...
Source: Journal of Research in Personality - December 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
To Grit or not to Grit, that is the Question!
Publication date: Available online 19 December 2018Source: Journal of Research in PersonalityAuthor(s): Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Albert J. Ksinan, Gabriela Ksinan Jiskrova, Jakub Mikuška, Magda Javakhishvili, Guangyi CuiAbstractThe current study tested the validity of grit as a non-cognitive construct related to, yet distinct from self-control. Data were collected from N = 1,907 adults spanning the life-course (53.1% female, M age = 41.4 years). Associations between grit and present and past goals were very similar to ones observed with self-control. Extensive model tests using structural equation modeling provided evidence...
Source: Journal of Research in Personality - December 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Five Factor Model of Personality and Alexithymia: A Meta-Analysis
Publication date: Available online 20 December 2018Source: Journal of Research in PersonalityAuthor(s): Urszula BarańczukAbstractThe main objective of the study was to examine the relationship between the Five Factor Model of Personality and alexithymia. Data were collected from 25 studies, which included 30 independent samples, 1 384 effect sizes, and 7 440 participants. All analyses were conducted with random effects models. Greater neuroticism and lower extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were associated with higher cognitive alexithymia. Greater neuroticism and openness to experi...
Source: Journal of Research in Personality - December 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
