Big Five

This study directly tests the effect of the "Big Five " personality traits on smartphone ownership and use. Although researchers have tested the impact of personality the use of on communication technology, this is the first study that specifically examines smartphone use. Logistic regression and hierarchical linear regression were used to analyze results from a sample of 312 participants. We found that extraverted individuals were more likely to own a smartphone. Also, extraverts reported a greater importance on the texting function of smartphones. More agreeable individuals place greater importance on using the smartphone to make calls and less importance on texting.

We tested whether there exist differences in the personality traits of anime fans who cosplay as compared to non-cosplaying anime fans. With regard to the Big Five personality traits, cosplayers scored higher than non-cosplayers on extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness. In contrast, non-cosplayers scored higher on emotional stability. The results are discussed with regard to existing research on the personality traits of actors, creativity, and parasocial relationships.

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar las relaciones entre los Cinco Grandes factores de la personalidad y las preferencias vocacionales en estudiantes de segundo ciclo de ESO. También se pretende conocer qué grupos vocacionales son mayoritarios y se analizan las diferencias en preferencias vocacionales y personalidad en función del sexo. Para todo ello se utilizó un diseño exploratorio, descriptivo y correlacional y la prueba t-student. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 112 estudiantes de dos institutos públicos de la provincia de Alicante, con edades comprendidas entre los 14 y los 17 años. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron el test de personalidad BFQ-NA y el SAV-R. Los resultados mostraron relaciones significativas entre el factor Apertura y el interés humanístico y científico-tecnológico, entre Extraversión y las áreas deportiva y de seguridad y entre Inestabilidad Emocional y los ámbitos psicopedagógico y sociojurídico. También se encontró que las áreas vocacionales preferidas por las mujeres son la psicopedagógica y la biosanitaria y que los hombres se decantan por la deportiva y las fuerzas de seguridad. La Inestabilidad Emocional es el único factor de personalidad en el que se hallaron diferencias significativas entre hombres y mujeres, siendo ellas quienes presentan una mayor inestabilidad.

The article is published in Russian. The relationship between Big Five personality traits and the Vk.com online social network (OSN) use on a large undergraduate sample (n=1079) was studied. To investigate OSN use, twelve 12 behavioral indicators were identified and used. Extraversion, neuroticism, and agreeableness were found to be important independent predictors of various behavioral OSN indicators including number of friends, number of wall posts, number of photos, number of likes related to personal photos, and so on. The contribution of agreeableness was found to be still questionable because they were revealed for only one of the two Big Five measures used, International Personality Items Pool, but not for the Big Five Inventory. The contribution of openness to experience was mainly mediated by extraversion with the exception of number of posts written by users.  Conscientiousness was positively related to number of avatars depicting users, and negatively to number of avatars substituting photos of a user with something else like photos (pictures) of animals, an abstract, other people, and so forth. Generally speaking, behavioral activity in the OSN increased among those users who had increased extraversion or neuroticism. These two relationships were mutually independent. Moreover, extraversion was the only trait differentiated users from those participants whose Vk profile was not found.

The current study investigated the relationship between dimensions of personality, self-reports of delinquency, mating effort, and the desire to own a dog perceived as aggressive. Seven common breeds of dog were rated by 235 participants living within the UK and North America, using an online survey application. Participants also completed scales measuring personality, earlier delinquency, and mating effort. A clear dimension in perceived aggressiveness was found across dog breeds. Persons lower in Agreeableness, higher in Neuroticism and Conscientiousness, and of younger age actively preferred a dog perceived as aggressive. Neither delinquency nor mating effort actively predicted this preference for an aggressive dog, although these measures were themselves correlated with Agreeableness; a regression analysis found that low Agreeableness, younger age, and higher Conscientiousness predicted higher ratings on the aggression preference dimension. These findings show that a preference for a more aggressive dog is not necessarily driven by self-reported status display and intersexual competition so much as youth, low Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness generally.

Life satisfaction of an educator is very important for his quality work in the context of early and preschool education. Given the importance of this topic and its neglect in the existing scientific research, the aim of this study was to analyze the life satisfaction of preschool teachers and the effects of personality traits on their life satisfaction mediated by burnout. Considering previous research, a direct effect of extraversion and neuroticism on life satisfaction was expected and effects of these personality traits were expected to be mediated by professional burnout. 295 preschool teachers have been examined (4 of which were males) from all parts of Croatia, with the average age of 37 years. Self-rating scales tested three variables: Life Satisfaction Scale, Big Five Inventory and Maslach’s Burnout Inventory. The results showed significant direct effects of extraversion and neuroticism on preschool teachers’ life satisfaction, confirming the findings of previous studies. Besides the direct effects, extraversion has an indirect positive effect on life satisfaction by reducing emotional exhaustion, while neuroticism has an indirect negative effect on life satisfaction by increasing the emotional exhaustion and perception of reduced personal accomplishment. Openness and conscientiousness have only indirect positive effects on life satisfaction by decreasing a diminishing sense of reduced personal achievement. Depersonalization showed no significant independent contribution to the explanation of life satisfaction, independent of the other predictors' (personality) or mediating variables. These findings are analyzed in the context of the complexity of the examined variables and their relationships, and the importance of their further examination with regard to the role of preschool teachers in the process of early learning and teaching. Zadovoljstvo životom jednog odgojitelja vrlo je važno za njegov kvalitetan rad u kontekstu ranog i predškolskog odgoja i obrazovanja. S obzirom na činjenicu da istraživanja na uzorcima odgojitelja uglavnom nisu bila ranije provođena, cilj je ovog rada bio analizirati zadovoljstvo životom odgojitelja te eventualne učinke osobina ličnosti na zadovoljstvo životom posredovane profesionalnim sagorijevanjem. Prema rezultatima se dosadašnjih istraživanja očekivao izravan učinak ekstraverzije i neuroticizma na zadovoljstvo životom te značajno posredovanje profesionalnog sagorijevanja na učinke ovih osobina ličnosti. Ispitano je 295 odgojitelja (od toga 4 muškog spola) iz cijele Hrvatske, prosječne dobi 37 godina. Tri varijable ispitane su upitnicima samoprocjene: Skalom zadovoljstva životom, Petofaktorskim upitnikom ličnosti i Maslachin upitnikom sagorijevanja. Rezultati su pokazali značajne izravne efekte ekstraverzije i neuroticizma na zadovoljstvo životom odgojitelja, što je potvrdilo nalaze dosadašnjih istraživanja. Osim izravnih efekata ekstraverzija ima i posredan pozitivan efekt na zadovoljstvo životom posredovan smanjenjem emocionalne iscrpljenosti, dok neuroticizam ima posredan negativan efekt na zadovoljstvo životom kroz povećanje emocionalne iscrpljenosti i percepciju smanjenoga osobnog postignuća. Otvorenost i savjesnost imaju samo posredne pozitivne efekte na zadovoljstvo životom umanjujući osjećaj smanjenoga osobnog postignuća. Depersonalizacija nije pokazala značajan samostalan doprinos objašnjenju zadovoljstva životom, neovisan o ostalim prediktorskim (ličnost) i medijacijskim varijablama. Utvrđeni su nalazi analizirani u kontekstu složenosti ispitanih varijabli i njihovih međusobnih odnosa, kao i važnosti njihova daljnjeg ispitivanja s obzirom na važnost uloge odgojitelja u procesu ranog učenja i poučavanja.

Trust is important in teams because the transaction costs in teams are lower when trust is high. The individuals who trust each other feel less compelled to monitor or double-check the work completed by others. In this study, we examine the impact of individual personality dimensions on trust for individuals working in virtual and face-to-face teams. We randomly assigned participants to either a virtual or face-to-face team to complete a project. As expected, higher levels of trust were associated with higher levels of satisfaction. In addition, personality traits predicted trust levels. The effect of personality on trust and of trust on satisfaction is stronger in virtual teams. In order to maximise the trust levels, virtual teams should be comprised of members who are high in agreeableness, conscientiousness and extraversion, while in face-to-face teams, extraverted individuals seem to report higher levels of trust.

Zusammenfassung Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Persönlichkeitsstruktur aus der Eindruckswirkung von Gesichtern resultiert. In zwei Untersuchungen waren Fotos fremder Personen auf einer umfangreichen Liste von Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen (im weiteren Sinne) zu beurteilen. Neben den Faktoren des Fünf-Faktoren-Modells der Persönlichkeit (Big Five) wurden verschiedene Facetten der physischen Attraktivität sowie die emotionale Befindlichkeit berücksichtigt.

Life satisfaction of an educator is very important for his quality work in the context of early and preschool education. Given the importance of this topic and its neglect in the existing scientific research, the aim of this study was to analyze the life satisfaction of preschool teachers and the effects of personality traits on their life satisfaction mediated by burnout. Considering previous research, a direct effect of extraversion and neuroticism on life satisfaction was expected and effects of these personality traits were expected to be mediated by professional burnout. 295 preschool teachers have been examined (4 of which were males) from all parts of Croatia, with the average age of 37 years. Self-rating scales tested three variables: Life Satisfaction Scale, Big Five Inventory and Maslach’s Burnout Inventory. The results showed significant direct effects of extraversion and neuroticism on preschool teachers’ life satisfaction, confirming the findings of previous studies. Be...

This paper examined the relationship between the Five-Factor model of personality and some maladaptive schemas and irrational beliefs as suggested by the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) framework. Data were gathered from 154 undergraduate students who completed four measures: DECAS Personality Inventory (a Romanian validated instrument for the Five-Factor model of personality), YSQ - L2 (Young Schema Questionnaire), ABS-2 (Attitudes and Beliefs

The study attempts to explore a relationship between demographic factors of investors and theirindividual personality traits with risk tolerance in financial products investment. A highly reliable questionnaire is applied to collect data from 369 respondents. Multiple regression technique and various research procedures are applied for data analysis. The empirical results reveal that personality traits influence financial risk tolerance. Similarly, age, gender and monthly income possess a relationship with investment risk tolerance. Therefore, this study provides a guidance to financial managers involved in development of investment policies.

Universitatea Pedagogică de Stat „Ion Creangă”, Universitatea de Stat de Medicină şi Farmacie “N. Testemiţanu”, Institutul Mamei şi Copilului, Chișinău, Republica MoldovaIn this article we present the results of the formative experiment on the results obtained following the application of a psychological intervention program for the improvement of the personality of the delinquent teenagers.В данной статье мы представляем результаты формирующего эксперимента по результатам применения программы психологического вмешательства для улучшения личности подростков-правонарушителей

Zusammenfassung Im Rahmen einer aus drei Untersuchungen bestehenden Kreuzvalidierungsstudie wurden Zusammenhänge zwischen Ähnlichkeit, Physiognomie und Eindruckswirkung von Gesichtern untersucht. In der ersten Untersuchung sortierten hundert Versuchspersonen Fotos von 61 Männern und 62 Frauen (Altersbereich: 20 bis 60) nach Ähnlichkeit. In der zweiten Studie wurde eine Teilmenge von 36 Männer und 36 Frauenfotos durch 864 Versuchspersonen beurteilt. Jede Vp beurteilte ein einzelnes Foto auf einem 90 Ratingskalen umfassenden Persönlichkeitsdifferential und einem 29 Skalen umfassenden physiognomischen Differential. In der dritten Untersuchung wurden die komplementären Teilmengen von 25 Männer-und 26 Frauenfotos durch 48 Versuchspersonen beurteilt. Jede Versuchsperson beurteilte einen vollständigen Fotosatz auf acht ausgewählten Skalen aus dem Persönlichkeitsbereich. Mittels multidimensionaler Skalierung wurden die Ähnlichkeitsdaten aus der ersten Untersuchung in einen euklidischen Raum abgebildet. Per multipler Regression konnten etwa zwei Drittel der Persönlichkeitsskalen und nahezu die Hälfte der physiognomischen Skalen in den 3dimensionalen Ähnlichkeitsraum eingepaßt werden. Bei Betrachtung von Faktoren anstelle von Einzelskalen konnten die Faktoren des Fünf-Faktoren-Modells der Persönlichkeit (Big Five), sowie physische Attraktivität und Alter im 3-dimensionalen Ähnlichkeitsraum lokalisiert werden. Anhand der Regressionskoeffizienten aus der zweiten Untersuchung wurden Schätzungen für die komplementären Fotosätze aus der dritten Untersuchung berechnet. Mit Ausnahme einer Skala ("unlogischlogisch") war diese Kreuzvalidierung erfolgreich.

Este trabajo analiza la influencia del Optimismo Disposicional y los Cinco
Grandes factores de la personalidad en la percepción de salud de los mayores, así como el análisis que optimistas y pesimistas realizan respecto a su salud. La muestra está formada de 498 personas mayores (M = 63.3 años y DE = 8.55). Los resultados ponen de manifiesto que las personas optimistas muestran mejor percepción de su salud y menores niveles de Disfunción Social y Depresión. El factor Neuroticismo influye en los Síntomas Somáticos, Ansiedad, Disfunción Social y Depresión y es un factor clave en la relación que se establece entre el Optimismo Disposicional y la subescala de Depresión. Por otra parte, el Optimismo, solo influye directamente en la subescala Disfunción Social.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the Big Five personality factors and five styles of handling interpersonal conflict. The Big Five factors are extroversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism, and the five conflict styles are integrating, obliging, dominating, avoiding, and compromising. A total of 351 students completed questionnaires. As a check on generalizing the results beyond students, 110 managers also completed the same surveys. The main results indicate that extroversion, conscientiousness, openness, and agreeableness have a positive relationship with integrating style. Extroversion has a positive relationship with dominating, while agreeableness and neuroticism have negative relationships with dominating. Extroversion, openness, and conscientiousness have a negative relationship with avoiding, while agreeableness and neuroticism have a positive relationship with avoiding. Implications of the study and suggestions fo...

How can individuals attain influence in organizations? Prior research has identified structural determinants of influence, such as formal authority and position in a social network. However, indirect evidence suggests that influence might also stem from personal characteristics. The authors tested whether influence can stem from the fit between the person and his or her organization (P–O fit). Consistent with expectations, extraverts attained more influence in a team-oriented organization, whereas conscientious individuals attained more influence in an organization in which individuals worked alone on technical tasks. Further, these effects held up after controlling for formal authority, job performance, and demographic characteristics, such as gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The multiple ways in which individuals can gain influence are discussed.

Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada no ISPA - Instituto Universitário para a obtenção de grau de Mestre na especialidade de Psicologia Clínica.O mindfulness enquanto forma de consciência pode ser definido como um prestar de atenção ao momento presente de forma propositada e sem julgamento. Ultimamente têm sur-gido vários estudos com o objetivo de perceber até que ponto as características de personali-dade se relacionam com as competências de mindfulness e podem funcionar como seu predi-tor e/ou correlato. Recorrendo ao modelo dos 5 fatores (Big Five), os principais objetivos do presente es-tudo foram: aferir até que ponto as dimensões da personalidade (Neuroticismo, Amabilidade, Conscienciosidade, Extroversão e Abertura à Experiência), estão correlacionadas com a pre-disposição para o mindfulness e verificar se a Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R) pode constituir um bom instrumento para medir o mindfulness na língua portuguesa. Participaram no estudo um total...

Life satisfaction of an educator is very important for his quality work in the context of early and preschool education. Given the importance of this topic and its neglect in the existing scientific research, the aim of this study was to analyze the life satisfaction of preschool teachers and the effects of personality traits on their life satisfaction mediated by burnout. Considering previous research, a direct effect of extraversion and neuroticism on life satisfaction was expected and effects of these personality traits were expected to be mediated by professional burnout. 295 preschool teachers have been examined (4 of which were males) from all parts of Croatia, with the average age of 37 years. Self-rating scales tested three variables: Life Satisfaction Scale, Big Five Inventory and Maslach’s Burnout Inventory. The results showed significant direct effects of extraversion and neuroticism on preschool teachers’ life satisfaction, confirming the findings of previous studies. Be...

Abstract    648 subjects rated themselves on a German version of Underwood and Froming's "Mood Survey" (Journal of Personality Assessment, 44, 404-414, 1980). The 15 item measure is a personality instrument for happy and sad moods with a clear-cut two-factor structure: Chronic Mood Level and Reactivity. The two subscales are internally consistent and moderately negatively correlated. Females had significantly higher values on both scales. Extending previous research, correlations between the mood subscales and the Big Five and several additional personality factors are reported. Mood Level is positively correlated with the personality factors Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Arousal/Happiness, and a one item measure of state pleasure. The personality correlates of the Reactivity subscale are less clear.
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Zusammenfassung    648 Versuchspersonen beurteilten sich selbst auf einer deutschen Version von Underwood und Froming's "Mood Survey" (Journal of Personality Assessment, 44, 404-414, 1980). Die aus 15 Fragen bestehende Liste ist ein kurzer Persönlichkeitsfragebogen zur Erfassung von zwei Stimmungsfaktoren: Überwiegende Stimmungsvalenz und Stimmungsschwankungen. Die beiden Skalen sind intern konsistent und weisen eine leichte negative Korrelation miteinander auf. Frauen erzielten auf beiden Skalen signifikant höhere Werte als Männer. In Erweiterung bislang vorliegender Untersuchungen werden Korrelationen zwischen den Stimmungsskalen und den sogenannten Big Five sowie weiteren Persönlichkeitsaspekten berichtet. Die Stimmungsvalenz besitzt positive Korrelationen mit den Persönlichkeitsfaktoren Extraversion, Emotionale Stabilität und Erregung/Stimmung sowie der eingeschätzten aktuellen Stimmung. Die Persönlichkeitskorrelate der Stimmungsschwankungen weisen eine weniger klare Struktur auf.

The study attempts to explore a relationship between demographic factors of investors and their individual personality traits with risk tolerance in financial products investment. A highly reliable questionnaire is applied to collect data from 369 respondents. Multiple regression technique and various research procedures are applied for data analysis. The empirical results reveal that personality traits influence financial risk tolerance. Similarly, age, gender and monthly income possess a relationship with investment risk tolerance. Therefore, this study provides a guidance to financial managers involved in development of investment policies.