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Showing 1 to 20 of 224 for “"Psychology--Personality"”.
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Lewinian interdependence theory, dynamics, and tension systems: an application to social support and game theory
Social psychology, personality theory, economics, and epistemology have suffered from a failure to incorporate dynamic behavior into theory. Dynamic behavior is the rate of change of behavior and the forces that cause change. Not much is known about dynamics, but fifty years ago Lewin linked …
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La présentation et l'étude critique de l'inventaire Bell-Ottawa
Abstract not available.
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A comparison of self-reported and observed personality traits in a custodial setting
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A continuation of the search for objective graphological hypotheses.
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The Roles of Task Hedonic Tone and Time in the Effects of Mood and Affectivity on Creativity
Using an experiment with 77 academic professional participants, this dissertation examined the effects of positive mood and positive affectivity on creativity, together with the contexts of task hedonic tone and time. The results revealed that high positive mood and a pleasant task tone were …
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Fear of a Blank Planet
This study is organized into four major chapters. In the first chapter, the various grounds traversed by affect and the problems of writing 'about' affect are established. The second chapter reads across Continental philosophy to extract and expand upon the undertheorized spatio-temporalities of …
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Exploring a Dispositional Conceptualization of Leisure in Early Adolescence: An Examination of the Self-as-Entertainment Construct
The self-as-entertainment construct represents a personality disposition specific to the use of free time and leisure behavior. Self-as-entertainment reflects individual differences in the capacity or ability to fill one's free time in a manner that is personally satisfying and appropriate. A …
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Assessing the Influence of Personality, Affectivity, and Mood on Job Satisfaction and Job Behaviors: A Test of Alternative Models
… was modified to account for both affectivity and personality and their relationships with the components of job attitudes and job behaviors. Several alternative models were proposed based on the literature on job attitudes, job behaviors, personality, affectivity, and mood at work. These models …
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Culture and Memory for Emotional Experiences: On-Line vs. Retrospective Judgments of Subjective Well-Being
Five studies were conducted to examine the genesis of cultural differences in global reports of well-being. The first three studies were designed to determine whether cultural differences in emotional experiences would emerge at the time of actual experience or at the time of retrospective …
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A New IRT Approach to Test Construction and Scoring Designed to Reduce the Effects of Faking in Personality Assessment: The Generalized Graded Unfolding Model for Multi -Unidimensional Paired Comparison Responses
Responses to personality items can be influenced by motivational factors present in the testing situation. In employment settings, individuals may fake good to raise their scores and increase their chances of being hired; in judicial settings, individuals may fake bad to lower their scores and …
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Applications of Ideal Point Approaches to Scale Construction and Scoring in Personality Measurement: The Development of a Six-Faceted Measure of Conscientiousness
… First, ideal point models showed better fits to personality items. Second, the greater flexibility of ideal point model allowed utilization of greater numbers of items for scale construction. The ideal point model could readily use items located in the middle of the trait continuum, while …
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Parents' Self -Views: Implications for Parents' Use of Control With Their Children and Parents' Mental Health
The aim of the current research was to investigate why there are differences among parents in their exertion of control over their children. The key proposal was that parents who include their children in their self-construals are particularly likely to use control with their children because they …
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Predictors of Intraindividual Change in Personality and Well -Being
… of intraindividual change in well-being and personality over a 9-year period. Data were from the Australian Quality of Life Panel Study (Headey & Wearing, 1989; 1992). One thousand one-hundred thirty participants (aged 16--70, M = 37.2, SD = 13.3) completed measures of subjective well-being …
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Using Item Response Theory to Bridge the Measurement Gap Between Normal Personality and Psychopathy
… psychopathy is an extreme variant of normal personality or whether it is a qualitatively distinct disorder. Typical measures of normal personality focus on adaptive variants of traits, whereas measures of psychopathy were designed to assess maladaptive variants. Presumably neither type of …
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Finding Mr. Wrong: Divergences in Mate Preferences and Mate Selection
When asked to choose among secure or insecure partner prototypes, research has shown that people tend to select secure individuals as their first choice. Despite this pattern, in reality not everyone selects secure partners. The goal of the current study was to examine some of the underlying …
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Development of Dispositions and Behaviors in Random and Self -Selected Freshman Roommate Pairs
… a greater range of characteristics, including personality traits, religiosity, and political preferences. In a second study, I show that even randomly-paired roommates were more similar than expected by chance at the beginning of their relationship due to dorm selection effects, but then became …
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Dispositional Differences in Frequencies of and Reasons for Voluntary Turnover: A Latent-Class Approach
… behavior. To fully explore the link from personality characteristics to quitting frequencies and reasons, person-oriented latent class procedures were used to supplement information obtained from traditional, variable-oriented methods. The results of latent class cluster analysis showed …
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The Relations Among Culture, Parental Socialization of Emotions, and Alexithymia
I examined the relations among culture, retrospective reports of parental socialization of emotions (PSE), and alexithymia. Participants were European American (EA) and Asian American (AA) college students. Alexithymia was measured using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Identification and …
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The Structure and Utility of Social Desirability Scales in Psychological Research
… that SD scales may share content variance with personality measures of neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and in these cases it is unwise to statistically control for social desirability."
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Extraversion and Positive Affect
Study 1 was conducted to administer personality trait scales and subjective well-being measures to 6949 individuals in 41 nations. The study replicated many previous findings and examined whether a strong, positive relation between extraversion and positive affect is a cross-cultural universal, and …
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