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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Personality--Research"”.
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Conflict management styles and personality: The effects of dominance at the individual and group level
… of the Manifest Needs Questionnaire, Jackson's Personality Research Form, and the Thomas-Kilmann MODE Instrument to assess dominance at the individual and group levels.
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Allocentrism - Idiocentrism, Self-Consciousness, and Interpersonal Attraction (self-Monitoring, Person Perception, Self-Esteem, Autonomy, Gender Differences)
… social desirability, and several scales of the Personality Research Form (PRF). I found allocentrism-idiocentrism to be unrelated to any of the non-PRF scales in a direct way. Multiple regression analyses showed the covariates of idiocentrism to differ among men and women. Idiocentric men …
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Further Investigation of the Factor Structure of the Five Factor Model of Personality: A Search for Moderator Variables
… controversial, the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality has remained prominent in normal personality research. Previous studies involving the FFM of personality have failed to examine individual differences that could moderate the number of factors in the FFM. This study investigated two such …
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Shy or sociable : introversion/extraversion and message recall
Personality research has long been an area of interest in the study of consumer behavior. Currently, common practice is to segment prospective audiences by demographic variables (age, gender, and race) instead of psychographics (values, attitudes, personality). In this research, the author …
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Socializing to recover from work stress: the benefits of acting extraverted
… work stress. Drawing from consistent findings in personality research, we hypothesized that individuals who measure high in extraversion receive the greatest recovery benefits from socializing, and that this relationship is mediated by state positive affect. An online assessment was administered …
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Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits
… This study examines the non-pathological personality traits present in paranormal believers by using a broad personality test. One hundred and one participants completed the Paranormal Belief Scale (PBS) and the Personality Research Form (PRF) in order to examine the differences among the …
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Teacher personality: does it influence effectiveness and student achievement in the classroom?
<p>The purpose of this research was to learn more about how teacher personality affects teacher efficacy and student academic success in the elementary school setting. The researcher hypothesized that: a) students in classrooms with more extraverted teachers would have higher grades in reading and …
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Measurement equivalence of the Comprehensive Personality Scales across cultures: an item response theory approach
… of differential item functioning (DIF) in two personality tests of the Comprehensive Personality Scale (Wang, 2013). A dominance IRT model (SGRM) and an ideal point model (the GGUM) were applied within the NHST paradigm, due to the debate over which is the more appropriate model for personality …
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Evaluation and validation of a self-report scale of irrational beliefs.
… and validate the YIPTIS (Your Irrational Personality Trait Inventory Score) test, developed by Maultsby (1980) for use in his self-help therapy. A more general goal was to develop a scale suitable for three important applications: the assessment of irrational thinking, the facilitation of …
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Occupational Engagement Scale for Creative Students: Initial Validation and Development
… Achievement and Sentience (as measured by the Personality Research Form; Jackson,1974). Openness to Experience and Achievement account for 19.4% of the variance in Global OES-CS scores. This study contributes to the construct validity for occupational engagement (Krieshok, et al., 2007). The …
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Message Framing, Source, and Personality in Older Adults' Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions with AI-driven Healthcare Treatment Recommendations
… provider, or a combination of the two), and personality traits on older adults' trust in AI-driven healthcare recommendations and their predicted adherence to treatment plans. Grounded in prospect theory and personality research, a 2x3 experimental design tested how different message …
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Individual Differences in Zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>) Behavior: Implications for Personality
… across time and contexts in order to investigate personality traits. Zebrafish (N = 30) were exposed to six behavioral tasks that were collectively expected to capture (a) aggression, (b) boldness/shyness, and (c) fear. The tasks included a small open field, mirror exposure, emergence, large open …
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We are what we attend to: Individual differences in attention and personality
… relationship between endogenous factors, such as personality, and visual attention is less clear. There has been some work exploring the relationship between attention and personality, but this field of interdisciplinary work lacks a unifying theory that operationalizes these relationships. The …
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Use of personality to improve reintroduction success: the effects of behavioural variation within release groups
The study of personality (consistent individual differences in behaviour) is a growing area in behavioural ecology. The majority of studies have investigated the proximate or ultimate causes of these individual differences. However, there is growing interest in their practical applications, …
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Patient-Technique Orientation, Personality Factors, and Training Effects in Nursing Students
… for nurses. This study attempted to determine if personality traits could be used as predictors of the patient-technique orientation of the student nurses and if the personality of the student nurses remained stable over one year. Thirty-four student nurses in the two-year associate degree nursing …
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Maximizing Information: Applications of Ideal Point Modeling and Innovative Item Design to Personality Measurement
Recent research has challenged the way in which personality and attitude constructs are measured. Alternatives have been offered as to how non-cognitive responses are modeled, the mode of delivery used when administrating such scales, and the impact of technology in measuring personality. Thus, the …
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Predicting leadership and performance in uniformed organisations using the five factor model of personality
… job performance in uniformed organisations. Personality assessment has largely been ignored as a possible contributor to improving predictions of performance. The emergence of the Five Factor Model as a framework for personality research, together with the development of the Trait Self …
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Internal Evaluation in a Women's Chemical Dependency Treatment Program
… by the participants? (5) What changes in personality characteristics as measured by the Personality Research Form - E (Jackson, 1974) before and after the treatment experience occurred in participants? and, (6) Are there significant differences in personality characteristics, demographic …
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