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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Personality Psychology"”.
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Message in a ballad: personality judgements [sic] based on music preferences
… research indicating that music preferences and personality are linked, this work focuses on the impressions elicited from such information. Four independent studies were conducted to determine whether people could form impressions on the basis of music preferences, whether those impressions are …
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Stability and Change in Goal Orientation and Their Relationship with Performance: Testing Density Distributions Using Latent Trait-State Models
… have long fueled the person-situation debate in personality psychology. Fleeson (2001) offered a solution for integrating the two theoretical perspectives called the density distribution approach. By incorporating Fleeson's approach with Latent Trait-State (LTS) covariance matrix models (Steyer, …
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When matches are ideal: Fitting measurement models to adult attachment data
Many self-report inventories in social/personality psychology are developed and scored using dominance-based assumptions. Specifically, it is assumed that the relationship between item endorsement and the latent trait is monotonically increasing. It is possible, however, that the item response …
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A study of the social support construct with a group of cancer patients
… 1985; Hupcey, 1998) to social, clinical, and personality psychology (Cohen, Underwood, & Gottlieb, 2000).While there appears to be a great deal of interest in social support, some have argued that there is a basic problem with its definition (Cohen, Underwood, & Gottlieb, 2000; Hupcey, 1998; …
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Multimodal Personality Recognition from Audiovisual Data
… the manifestations of human constructs, such as personality. A branch of human behavior analyis, the study of personality provides insight into the cognitive and psychological construction of the human being. Research in personality psychology, advances in com- puting power and the development of …
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Relationship predictors of prenatal maternal representations of the child and parenting experiences one year after birth
… conducted through two distinct fields of psychology: developmental and social/ personality psychology. These two fields tend to use different research strategies and measures and focus on different types and aspects of relationships, yet both make important contributions to the attachment …
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An examination of the antecedents to small and medium enterprise co-operation, and their effect on network propensity and behaviour.
… of business co-operation, trust, commitment and personality psychology. The limitations of existing networking - co-operation SME research are identified, and in particular the dearth of empirical based research. Where such research exists, no attempt is made to isolate variables which might …
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Personal Strivings: Toward a Theory of Personality and Subjective Well-Being (Motives, Goals, Affect)
Recent theoretical efforts in personality psychology have failed to confront adequately the core theoretical problem facing the field: That of adequately describing the personality of an individual in motivational terms. In an attempt to remedy this deficiency, a theory of "personal strivings" is …
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The development of dispositional measures of self-congruity and functional congruity
… is based on the interactionist paradigm in personality psychology combined with self-congruity theory and Blake and Mouton's orientation to tasks vs. people. It was hypothesized that the dispositional measures of self-congruity and functional congruity would moderate the relationship between …
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Dark Personality Traits and Board Leadership: Three Essays on the Enactment of Governance Authority
… discretion. Drawing on upper echelons theory and personality psychology, I propose that subclinical personality traits—specifically narcissism—serve as a critical mechanism linking ambiguous authority to behavioral variance. I focus on the role of the board chair, a position defined by procedural …
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An investigation into the influence of personality factors on cultural intelligence and the direct and moderating effects of international experience
… cultures. Utilizing the theory of evolutionary personality psychology, several relationships are predicted between certain personality traits and factors of CQ. In addition, social learning theory is applied to explain the expected relationships between international experience and CQ. Thirdly, …
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Stability and change in personality : contributions from long- and short-term approaches
… barriers, today there is a common consent that personality is marked by both stability and change over time as well as across situations. Provided with this basic understanding, the field of personality psychology has moved from debating whether personality changes at all towards answering more …
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Inconsistency in Assessment Center Performance: Measurement Error or Something More
… that might illuminate a candidate's personality and have important implications for future job performance (Bray & Grant, 1966; Fiske, Hanfmann, MacKinnon, Miller, & Murray, 1948), but subsequent assessment center researchers and practitioners have generally treated inconsistency as …
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Umsetzungsstarke Teams bei der Flugsicherung in der Schweiz am Beispiel Skyguide AG – Teams im Fokus Volition
… (HRO), Business Administration (BWL) and personality psychology and offers practical development opportunities for teams and individuals. Proven concepts from the aviation industry are selected, to increase the connectivity and acceptance among Skyguide employees. The most important …
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The Determinants of Successful Goal Pursuit
… of goals in the context of motivational psychology, the problem, however, is that researchers often focus on only one particular theory while often ignoring other (possibly competing or overlapping) ideas. To address this concern, we conducted a prospective longitudinal study in order to …
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Criminal Compliance in mittelständischen Unternehmen als Instrument zur Eindämmung des Korruptionsphänomens
… Derived from current research, particularly in personality psychology, this dissertation picks up on influencing factors in human behaviour in companies as well as in an operating environment that fosters corruption, which affect decision-making behaviour and the propensity to engage in …
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Zero-Sum Mindset & Its Discontents
… and domains. At the crossroads of social psychology, which emphasizes the “power of the situation,” and personality psychology, which emphasizes the importance of “individual differences,” this research examines individual differences in perceptions of one’s general situation. My research …
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Structural Equation Models Examining the Relationships Between the Big Five Personality Factors and the Music Model of Academic Motivation Components
… interested in the complex relationships between personality and motivation. However, much of their understanding has been limited to The Big Five personality factors (namely, Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), and a proliferation of motivation constructs …
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Blinded by Boredom: Examining the Effect of Boredom on the Ability to Anticipate Meaningful Experience
Boredom is a common human experience that can have surprisingly deleterious consequences. In a world brimming with opportunities for satisfying engagement, it seems unlikely that anyone would be able to remain bored for long. However, research suggests that people sometimes struggle to rid …
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The Underused Mind: The Role of Cognition in Trait Boredom
Trait boredom is associated with serious psychosocial consequences. It is also associated with poor sustained attention and self-reported executive dysfunction. However, research on trait boredom and cognitive ability beyond sustained attention is limited. One reason is that there has been a lack …
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