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Reconsidering normative interpretations in personality research European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Theo A Klimstra, Kate C McLean
A vast body of knowledge on development and correlates of personality dimensions has led to recommendations on policy implications and interventions. However, we argue that there has not been enough attention to the socio-cultural contexts of personality development, resulting in incomplete and potentially harmful interpretations of the data. Although personality theorists have addressed the role of
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Self-reported aggression is related to oxidative stress in men and women European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Marta Kowal, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Judyta Nowak-Kornicka, Agata Groyecka-Bernard, Bogusław Pawłowski, Piotr Sorokowski
Aggression is an important element of social behavior. Increased aggression has been observed in many mental disorders, posing a serious public health concern. However, the proximal biological mechanisms underlying an individual’s proneness to aggressive behavior remain poorly understood. Studies in both non-human animals and humans with aggressive disorders have shown that aggression is positively
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Examining interindividual differences in unemployment-related changes in subjective well-being: The role of psychological well-being and re-employment expectations European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Mario Lawes, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb, Gesine Stephan, Michael Eid
This study examined whether the six trait-like dimensions of psychological well-being (e.g., autonomy and environmental mastery) moderate the effects of unemployment on various facets of subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, satisfaction with life domains, and experienced mood). Further, re-employment expectations during unemployment were investigated as a moderator in this context. The study
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Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Michael D. Krämer, Julia M. Rohrer, Richard E. Lucas, David Richter
How do life events affect life satisfaction? Previous studies focused on a single event or separate analyses of several events. However, life events are often grouped non-randomly over the lifespan, occur in close succession, and are causally linked, raising the question of how to best analyze them jointly. Here, we used representative German data (SOEP; N = 40,121 individuals; n = 41,402 event occurrences)
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MIsgivings about measurement invariance European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 David C Funder, Gwendolyn Gardiner
This paper critically evaluates the conventional insistence on establishing measurement invariance (MI) in cross-cultural psychology. We argue that complex and seemingly arbitrary benchmarks for assessing MI can be unrealistic and effectively prohibit meaningful research. The widespread use of various MI criteria creates unnecessary and often unattainable hurdles for cross-cultural researchers who
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The diversity advantage: An explanatory framework for personality traits European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Todd A Pringle, Michael D Robinson
Why do human beings exhibit enduring personality differences, and to what extent are these differences shaped by biological and cultural evolution? Despite ongoing efforts, a consensus framework remains elusive. This paper introduces the Diversity Advantage Theory, partially shifting the focus from how personality impacts individuals to its influence within groups. Through an evolutionary lens, connections
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Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mathias Allemand, Gabriel Olaru, Mirjam Stieger, Christoph Flückiger
The mechanisms of change underlying the effectiveness of personality change interventions are largely unclear. In this study, we used data from a three-month digital intervention with an intensive longitudinal design to test whether a greater realization of general change factors is partly responsible for personality change. Participants ( N = 679, 53.0% female; age: M = 25.3 years, SD = 7.1) seeking
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Testing perceivers’ accuracy and accuracy awareness when forming personality impressions from faces European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Bastian Jaeger, Willem WA Sleegers, Julia Stern, Lars Penke, Alex L Jones
People spontaneously judge others’ personality based on their facial appearance and these impressions guide many important decisions. Although the consequences of personality impressions are well documented, studies on the accuracy of personality impressions have yielded mixed results. Moreover, relatively little is known about people’s accuracy awareness (i.e., whether they are aware of their judgment
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Two Peas in a Pod? Development of Twin Relationships in Light of Twins’ Temperament Differences European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Hila Segal, Shifra Gutermann, Ariel Knafo-Noam
This study examines the hypothesis that temperamental (dis)similarity is associated with twin relationship quality. In a longitudinal study that followed 322 monozygotic twins (who share close to 1...
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Structural and Inter-individual Differentiation in Personality Traits Across the Adult Lifespan European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Gabriel Olaru, Kristin Jankowsky, Mathias Allemand
The concept of differentiation describes increasing or decreasing similarities between inter-individual differences on psychological constructs, reflecting processes of specialization or adaptation...
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Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Dario Bacchini, Gaetana Affuso, Serena Aquilar, Mirella Dragone, Concetta Esposito
Adolescence is critical for values development since transitions in several domains occur during this period. Building upon Schwartz’s circumplex model, this study investigated stability and change...
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What if there were no personality factors? Comparing the predictability of behavioral act frequencies from a big-five and a maximal-dimensional item set European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Elisa Altgassen, Gabriel Olaru, Oliver Wilhelm
Personality inventories are predominantly curated using factor analytic approaches. Indicators capturing common and thus redundant variance are preferentially selected, whereas indicators capturing...
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Tracing the evolution of personality cognition in early human civilisations: A computational analysis of the Gilgamesh epic European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Amy He Du, Johannes A. Karl, Velichko Fetvadjiev, Markus Luczak-Roesch, Reinhard Pirngruber, Ronald Fischer
Assessing evolution of cognitive structures across historical periods has remained challenging in the absence of direct access to humans from the past. Overcoming some of these challenges, we exami...
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Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Michael Dufner, Franziska Wieg, Livia Kraft, Stathis Grapsas, Birk Hagemeyer
Individuals differ in the tendency to derive pleasure out of motive-specific incentives, such as being socially included or attaining power. Multiple theoretical approaches have proposed that such ...
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Clarifying the link between psychological need satisfaction and positive affect: Longitudinal within-person tests for bi-directional influence in two cultures European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Wenceslao Unanue, Frank Martela, Vivian L. Vignoles, Helga Dittmar
Positive affect is often considered the “hallmark of well-being,” associated with better health, longevity, and success. Self-determination theory (SDT) proposes that satisfying three basic psychol...
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Linking the Momentary Processing of Injustice to Intraindividual Change in Dispositional Victim Sensitivity European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Anna Baumert, Simona Maltese, Tanja Lischetzke
We investigated how the dispositional sensitivity to becoming the victim of injustice (victim sensitivity) is linked to the momentary processing of injustice and how such processes predict disposit...
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Examining individual differences in personality trait changes after negative life events European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Peter Haehner, Wiebke Bleidorn, Christopher J Hopwood
Personality traits can change throughout the entire life span, but people differ in their personality trait changes. To better understand individual differences in personality changes, we examined ...
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Self-Regulatory Strategy Use, Efficacy, and Strategy-Situation-Fit in Self-Control Conflicts of Initiation, Persistence, and Inhibition European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Mario Wenzel, Sebastian Bürgler, Veronika Brandstätter, Antonia Kreibich, Marie Hennecke
Self-control is the ability to (1) initiate, and (2) persist in boring, difficult or disliked activity, and to (3) inhibit impulses to act. We explored the self-regulatory strategies that people us...
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Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Savaş Karataş, Elisabetta Crocetti, Seth J. Schwartz, Monica Rubini
Given that adolescents from migrant families live within at least two cultural contexts (i.e., the heritage and the destination cultures), they generally must negotiate and construct ethnic and nat...
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The Role of Parental Socio-Economic Status and Perceived Career-Related Behaviors in Developmental Trajectories of Educational Identity in Adolescence: A Four-Wave Study European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Casandra Timar-Anton, Oana Negru-Subtirica, Lavinia E. Damian
Personal identity formation is a key developmental task of adolescence, with the educational domain being a core life domain. Parents are gatekeepers of adolescent career development but their role...
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How Is Variety in Daily Life Related to the Expression of Personality States? An Ambulatory Assessment Study European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Stefanie Lindner, Mirjam Stieger, Dominik Rüegger, Tobias Kowatsch, Christoph Flückiger, Matthias R. Mehl, Mathias Allemand
People differ in the way they live their daily lives. For some people, daily life is characterized by multiple and diverse experiences, while others have more stability and routine in their lives. ...
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Filling gaps in the nomological networks for dominance and affiliation by examining self-informant agreement on momentary interpersonal behavior European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Whitney R Ringwald, Paul A Pilkonis, Aidan GC Wright
Interpersonal functioning involves an interplay of subjective perceptions and overt behavior. This study examines alignment between self and informant perceptions of momentary behavior to enrich th...
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Personality change through a digital-coaching intervention: Using measurement invariance testing to distinguish between trait domain, facet, and nuance change European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Gabriel Olaru, Mirjam Stieger, Dominik Rüegger, Tobias Kowatsch, Christoph Flückiger, Brent W Roberts, Mathias Allemand
Recent intervention research has shown that personality traits can be modified through psychological interventions. However, it is unclear whether reported effects represent changes in the trait do...
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Bidirectional associations between self-esteem and relational aggression from 5th to 11th grade European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Rebekka Weidmann, Olivia E Atherton, Richard W Robins
A widely held belief among laypeople and psychologists suggests that self-esteem and relational aggression (i.e., perpetration and victimization) are associated over time. The present study examine...
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Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Dirk H. M. Pelt, Lianne P. de Vries, Meike Bartels
In the current study, common and unique genetic and environmental influences on personality and a broad range of well-being measures were investigated. Data on the Big Five, life satisfaction, qual...
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The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Janis Jung, Katrin Rentzsch, Michela Schröder-Abé
The conceptual and empirical overlap of grandiose narcissism and self-esteem is part of ongoing debate. Whereas cross-sectional findings suggest a moderate correlation between both constructs, evid...
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Adolescence as a peak period of borderline personality features? A meta-analytic approach European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Anouk Aleva, Odilia M Laceulle, Jaap JA Denissen, Christel J Hessels, Marcel AG van Aken
This meta-analysis of cross-sectional data aimed to shed light on the often assumed peak in mean-level of borderline personality features during middle to late adolescence (i.e. age 17–22). Borderl...
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Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Elina Erz, Katrin Rentzsch
Dispositional envy has been conceptualized as an emotional trait that varies across comparison domains (e.g., attraction, competence, wealth). Despite its prevalence and potentially detrimental eff...
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Conscientiousness and Cognitive Ability as Predictors of Academic Achievement: Evidence of Synergistic Effects From Integrative Data Analysis European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Jennifer Meyer, Oliver Lüdtke, Fabian T. C. Schmidt, Johanna Fleckenstein, Ulrich Trautwein, Olaf Köller
Cognitive ability is the most powerful predictor of academic achievement. However, increasing attention is being paid to the role of personality traits in students’ academic achievement. Results in...
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A developmental approach to youth maladaptive personality traits: Variable- versus person-centered change in the transition from childhood to adolescence European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Odilia M Laceulle, Karen Rienks, Laurien Meijer, Elisabeth L de Moor, Annemiek Karreman
Increasing evidence shows that personality pathology starts to develop from (late) childhood onwards. The current study extends previous research by examining maladaptive personality change using b...
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Trajectories of temperament from late childhood through adolescence and associations with anxiety and depression in young adulthood European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Katherine M Lawson, Wiebke Bleidorn, Christopher J Hopwood, Rongxin Cheng, Richard W Robins
Anxiety and depression are pervasive and pernicious mental health problems for young adults. Developmental trajectories of adolescent temperament (Effortful Control, Negative Emotionality, and Posi...
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Personality, behavioral engagement, and psychological adaptation of high school students abroad: A longitudinal perspective on between- and within-person dynamics European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Juan Serrano-Sánchez, Julia Zimmermann, Kathrin Jonkmann
International educational mobility is a life event that confronts sojourners with many challenges, such as adapting to a new living environment abroad. Whether these cultural adaptation processes a...
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Personality development in immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents: Disruption or maturation? European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-17 Sarah Gillespie, Rebecca Shiner, Ann S. Masten, Frosso Motti-Stefanidi
This study examined gender and immigrant status differences in stability and change in the Big Five traits in a sample of early adolescents in Greece from economically disadvantaged schools with a ...
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Development of adolescents’ self-esteem and general academic self-concept: perceived classroom climate makes a difference European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Vsevolod Scherrer, Petra Hank, Franzis Preckel
We investigated rank-order continuity and mean-level change in adolescents’ self-esteem, academic self-concept, and social self-concept and tested whether interindividual differences in intraindivi...
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Does it pay off to act conscientiously, both now and later? Examining concurrent, lagged, and cumulative effects of state conscientiousness European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Evy Kuijpers, Jennifer Pickett, Bart Wille, Joeri Hofmans
Although previous research has shown that both trait and state conscientiousness are positively associated with a wide range of positive life and work outcomes, some studies indicate that acting in...
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Addressing ethnic prejudice in youth: Developmental trajectories and associations with educational identity European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Beatrice Bobba, Flavia Albarello, Monica Rubini, Elisabetta Crocetti
Studying how attitudes develop in the transition from late adolescence to emerging adulthood offers unique insights into future generations’ perceptions of society and of others. However, findings ...
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Not all flowers bloom in April: Self-esteem development surrounding the first romantic relationship during adolescence and emerging adulthood European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Tita Gonzalez Avilés, Elisabeth Borschel, Sebastian Pusch, Franz J. Neyer
Most people experience their first romantic relationship during adolescence. However, there is also a substantial proportion of youth who remain single during this time. Delaying the transition int...
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Personality development in adolescence: Examining big five trait trajectories in differential learning environments European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Julia Tetzner, Michael Becker, Lilly-Marlen Bihler
This study addresses two questions: Do Big Five traits change from early to middle adolescence? How do developmental trajectories differ between educational environments (i.e., secondary school tra...
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The Extended Social Relations Model: Understanding Dissimilation and Dissensus in the Judgment of Others European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 David A. Kenny, Megan R. Goldring, Taeyun Jung
The Social Relations Model (SRM), which has been an important tool for personality researchers, presumes the variabilities in the SRM components, perceiver, target, and relationship effects, are co...
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The transition to grandparenthood: No consistent evidence for change in the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Michael D Krämer, Manon A van Scheppingen, William J. Chopik, David Richter
Intergenerational relations have received close attention in the context of population aging and increased childcare provision by grandparents. However, few studies have investigated the psychologi...
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Personality Development Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Role of Life Transitions and Self-Concept Clarity European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Elisabeth L. de Moor, Stefanie A. Nelemans, Andrik I. Becht, Wim Meeus, Susan Branje
Personality develops across the lifespan, but most development occurs in adolescence and young adulthood. Life transitions to new social roles may be important drivers of mean-level personality dev...
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Do the Big Five personality traits interact to predict life outcomes? Systematically testing the prevalence, nature, and effect size of trait-by-trait moderation European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Colin E Vize, Brinkley M Sharpe, Joshua D Miller, Donald R Lynam, Christopher J Soto
Personality researchers have posited multiple ways in which the relations between personality traits and life outcomes may be moderated by other traits, but there are well-known difficulties in reliable detection of such trait-by-trait interaction effects. Estimating the prevalence and magnitude base rates of trait-by-trait interactions would help to assess whether a given study is suited to detect
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Personality and limitations in instrumental activities of daily living in old age: Reciprocal associations across 12 years European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Flavia S. Chereches, Yvonne Brehmer, Gabriel Olaru
Personality traits have been reported to predict difficulties in performing instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) in old age, such as preparing meals or shopping. However, little is known about the reciprocal effects on personality. In this study, we examined bidirectional relationships between personality traits and the capacity to perform IADL using four waves of longitudinal data from 3540
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Patterned person-situation fit in daily life: Examining magnitudes, stabilities, and correlates of trait-situation and state-situation fit European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-02 John F. Rauthmann, Ryne A. Sherman
Person-situation fit can be operationalized as within-person associations between profiles of personality traits and situation characteristics (trait-situation fit) as well as personality states and situation characteristics (state-situation fit). We provide an initial examination of basic properties (magnitudes, individual differences, reliabilities, intercorrelations), short-term stability (across
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Perception of major life events and personality trait change European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Peter Haehner, Andrew Rakhshani, Ina Fassbender, Richard E Lucas, Michael Brent Donnellan, Maike Luhmann
Major life events can trigger personality trait change. However, a clear, replicable pattern of event-related personality trait change has yet to be identified. We examined whether the perception of major life events is associated with personality trait change. Therefore, we assessed young adults’ personality traits at five measurement occasions within 1 year. At the second measurement occasion, we
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Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Paul W Eastwick, Samantha Joel, Kathleen L Carswell, Daniel C Molden, Eli J Finkel, Shelley A Blozis
There are massive literatures on initial attraction and established relationships. But few studies capture early relationship development: the interstitial period in which people experience rising and falling romantic interest for partners who could—but often do not—become sexual or dating partners. In this study, 208 single participants reported on 1,065 potential romantic partners across 7,179 data
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The development of social value orientation: Attachment styles, number of siblings, age, and a comparison of measures European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Yi Liu, Bo Wang, Paul A. M. Van Lange
Nearly 25 years ago, four studies examined the development of social value orientation (SVO) and uncovered that SVO was related to specific and general adult attachment, the number of siblings, and age. However, some of these findings have been challenged by two recent replication studies. The present (pre-registered) research extends these replication studies and the original research by using multiple
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Daily dynamics of grandiose narcissism: distribution, stability, and trait relations of admiration and rivalry states and state contingencies European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 S Mota, I Mielke, L Kroencke, K Geukes, S Nestler, MD Back
On the basis of the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept and recent theories on narcissistic pursuit of status, we provide a differentiated analysis of individual differences in the within-person dynamics of grandiose narcissism. In two daily diary studies (Sample 1: 56 days; Sample 2: 82 days; total participants: N = 198; total observations: N = 12,404), we investigated the degree, stability
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Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Michael Zakharin, Timothy C Bates
Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) predicts that moral behaviour reflects at least five foundational traits, each hypothesised to be heritable. Here, we report two independent twin studies (total n = 2020), using multivariate multi-group common pathway models to test the following three predictions from the MFT: (1) The moral foundations will show significant heritability; (2) The moral foundations will
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What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal? European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Laura ER Blackie, Eranda Jayawickreme
Recent research has advocated for the value of conceptualizing post-traumatic growth as positive personality change. However, most research continues to use both methodologically suspect assessment tools and unsupported theoretical assumptions. How can personality psychologists contribute to the pursuit of high-quality research on this topic? The current special issue, which grew out of the European
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Is what is beautiful good and still more accurately understood? A replication and extension of Lorenzo et al. (2010) European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Hasagani Tissera, John E Lydon, Lauren J Human
Is what is beautiful good and more accurately understood? Lorenzo et al. (2010) explored this question and found that more attractive targets (as per consensus) were judged more positively and accurately. Perceivers’ specific (idiosyncratic) ratings of targets’ attractiveness were also related to more positive and accurate impressions, but the latter was only true for highly consensually attractive
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A longitudinal study of dispositional compassion in Syrian origin young adults resettling in the Netherlands European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Odilia M. Laceulle, Jennifer E. Stellar, Alajak Kinan, Alisic Eva, Al Sawaf Zeina, Meijer Laurien, Neha Moopen, Mooren Trudy, Ilayda Ozoruç, Rahim Haza, Duygu Taşfiliz, Renée Zonneveld, Joanne M. Chung
BackgroundDispositional compassion is regarded as a facet of Agreeableness, an emotional driver of prosociality, and a primary marker of adjustment. We examined changes in dispositional compassion in Syrian young adults resettling in the Netherlands, as well as the role of migration-related and demographic variables in this change.MethodsWe analyzed data from a 4-wave (T1-T4), 13-month longitudinal
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Emotional responses to a global stressor: Average patterns and individual differences European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Emily C Willroth, Angela M Smith, Eileen K Graham, Daniel K Mroczek, Amanda J Shallcross, Brett Q Ford
Major stressors often challenge emotional well-being—increasing negative emotions and decreasing positive emotions. But how long do these emotional hits last? Prior theory and research contain conflicting views. Some research suggests that most individuals’ emotional well-being will return to, or even surpass, baseline levels relatively quickly. Others have challenged this view, arguing that this type
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Facet-level changes in mothers’ neuroticism and extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Sointu Leikas, Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen, Katri Räikkönen
Becoming a parent could be expected to affect personality development, but the existing results on parenthood-personality change connection are mixed. The present study investigated 2445 primi- and multiparous mothers’ facet- and domain-level changes in Neuroticism and Extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum, using latent difference score models. The results showed that Excitability
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The role of interpersonal perceptions of social inclusion and personality in momentary self-esteem and self-esteem reactivity European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Eva Bleckmann, Oliver Lüdtke, Swantje Mueller, Jenny Wagner
Empirical research has demonstrated that self-esteem is significantly shaped by social interactions and perceptions of social inclusion; however, less is known about individual differences in the reactivity of momentary self-esteem to social inclusion. Zooming into social interactions, we used data from two adolescent samples (overall N > 200) in two different social settings (i.e., a standardized
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Interindividual age differences in personality structure European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-08 Emorie D Beck, David Condon, Josh Jackson
Most investigations in the structure of personality traits do not adequately address age; instead, they presuppose a constant structure across the lifespan. Further, few studies look at the structure of personality traits a-theoretically, often neglecting to examine the relationship among indicators within a trait (convergence) and across traits (divergence). Using a network approach, the present study
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Initiation of drug and alcohol use and personality development during adolescence European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Amanda J. Wright, Joshua J. Jackson
Personality traits predict both the initiation and continued usage of alcohol and drugs. Less established is if substance use is associated with subsequent changes in personality, especially during the sensitive period of adolescence. We used three approaches to disentangle selection and socialization effects to address whether substance use is associated with personality development (impulsivity,
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Person × domain interactions in resisting desires in daily life European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Mario Wenzel, Zarah Rowland, Sebastian Bürgler, Malte Friese, Wilhelm Hofmann, Marie Hennecke
Self-control has predominantly been characterized as a domain-general individual difference, assuming that highly self-controlled individuals are generally, that is, irrespective of domain, better at resisting their desires. However, qualitative differences in the domains in which these desires emerge and how individuals interact with these domains have rarely been examined. We re-analyzed three experience
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Variability in negative affect is an important feature of neuroticism above mean negative affect once measurement issues are accounted for European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Mario Wenzel, Zarah Rowland, Lara K Mey, Karolina Kurth, Oliver Tüscher, Thomas Kubiak
Neuroticism is an important predictor of well-being that is conceptualized by high levels of mean negative affect and negative affect variability. However, research has shown that negative affect variability only explained limited additional variance in neuroticism when the confound with mean negative affect was accounted for using a modified version of the standard deviation (SD), the relative standard
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The development of trait greed during young adulthood: A simultaneous investigation of environmental effects and negative core beliefs European Journal of Personality (IF 7.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Patrick Mussel, Jantje de Vries, Maik Spengler, Andreas Frintrup, Matthias Ziegler, Johannes Hewig
Recent models of personality development have emphasized the role of the environment in terms of selection and socialization effects and their interaction. Our study provides partial evidence for these models and, crucially, extends these models by adding a person variable: Core beliefs, which are defined as mental representations of experiences that individuals have while pursuing need-fulfilling