Performance in Small Student Groups
Kenneth I. Mavor, Michael J. Platow, Boris Bizumic in Self and Social Identity in Educational Contexts, 2017
The Big Five personality traits are extroversion, neuroticism (often referred to by its converse – emotional stability), openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness (see Digman, 1990; Goldberg et al., 2006; McCrae and Costa, 1996; McCrae and Terracciano, 2005). Extraversion refers to the degree to which individuals are outgoing, energetic, sociable, vigorous, and excitement seeking. Neuroticism refers to individuals’ susceptibility to experience negative emotions, including anxiety, stress, anger, and depression. Openness to experience primarily refers to individuals’ creativity, adventurousness, broad-mindedness, imagination, and artistic interests. Agreeableness, the main interpersonal component, refers to the degree to which an individual is cooperative, considerate, altruistic, modest, and trustful. Finally, conscientiousness refers to the degree to which individuals are responsible, hard-working, organised, and diligent.
Anxiety, Depression, and Personality
Siegfried Kasper, Johan A. den Boer, J. M. Ad Sitsen in Handbook of Depression and Anxiety, 2003
Many twin-and adoption studies confirm that hereditary factors influence the development of personality. The field of behavioral genetics studies the impact of heredity on personality and other behavior. It assesses the heritability of traits; that is, the extent to which they are genetically determined. Heritabilities of 25 to 50% for personality traits are commonly reported. Many twin studies have been conducted [15–17]. Loehlin [16] showed the heritability of the “Big Five” personality traits (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness). Genetics accounted for approximately 28 to 46% of the variability of these traits. Other scientists try to confirm the heritability with different personality models in twin studies. Tellegen et al. [17] report heritabilities of 0.39 to 0.58 using the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ).
Current research on developmental aspects of aging
Peter G. Coleman, Ann O’Hanlon in Aging and Development, 2017
As one might expect, life review was also related to ratings of ‘openness to experience’, one of the ‘big five’ personality traits (Block, 2010), personal growth and to using reminiscence (on Webster’s reminiscence functions scale) for identity exploration and problem solving. Most interesting are the links found with psychological characteristics assessed earlier in life, such as observer-based indices of introspection and insight. Life review was also related to a global measure of past negative life events, such as a major off-time bereavement, other personal crisis or illness. Wink and Schiff’s thesis, consistent with that of previous commentators (Coleman, 1986; Parker, 1995), is that life review is an adaptive response to aging in those who have encountered marked difficulties in life, but that for the majority of older persons it is not a necessary adaptation. They take their analysis further by describing in detail and contrasting two individuals from their sample, both with high acceptance of their lives, but the one high and the other low in life-review involvement.
Measuring Six Facets of Curiosity in Germany and the UK: A German-Language Adaptation of the 5DCR and Its Comparability with the English-Language Source Version
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2023
David J. Grüning, Clemens M. Lechner
To locate the six facets of the German-language adaptation of 5DCR in a nomological network and assess its convergent and discriminant validity, we investigated its relations to a set of key personality and motivational traits. Our goal in including this broad range of correlates was to explore the nomological network of curiosity, including basic personality traits, values, and potential outcomes of curiosity. More specifically, we included (1) the Big Five personality traits Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness; (2) basic human values; and (3) locus of control. We selected the Big Five personality traits and basic human values because these constructs were also the focus in Kashdan et al.’s (2020) original validation study of 5DCR, allowing for direct comparisons of our results. We additionally included locus of control because it is a fundamental individual difference construct that falls outside the Big Five and has important consequences for behavior and affect (e.g., Judge & Bono, 2001; Ng et al., 2006).
Endorsement of Feminist Beliefs, Openness, and Mindful Acceptance as Predictors of Decreased Transphobia
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2021
Lisa F. Platt, Spring L. Szoka
Although Openness to Experience is perhaps the least well understood construct of the Big Five personality trait structure (i.e.: Openness, Conscientious, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), most researchers agree that this facet includes constructs such as curiosity, tolerance of complexity, creativity, innovation, desire for change, and variety. Importantly, openness to experience has consistently demonstrated an inverse relationship with prejudice, both generalized (Akrami, Ekehammar, & Bergh, 2011) and specific (Flynn, 2005). For example, Ekehammar and Akrami (2003) found openness to experience significantly related to seven different types of prejudice including racial prejudice and sexism. More broadly, Han and Pistole (2017), found the factors of openness to experience and agreeableness were the most predictive of appreciation for human universality and diversity.
Chronotype and sensory-processing sensitivity: A cross-sectional survey
Published in Chronobiology International, 2023
Naomi Staller, Christoph Randler, Muriel Weigel, Michael Schredl
Chronotype, education, and Conscientiousness: A certain triangular relationship between high education, morningness and conscientiousness can be derived. In terms of Big Five personality traits, conscientiousness was shown to be a strong predictor of chronotype and bedtimes in this sample. In other study groups, conscientiousness was described as the strongest predictor of the Big Five scales for chronotype (specifically: morningness; see, e.g.,, Adan et al. 2012; Staller et al. 2021). In general, literature shows morningness to correlate strongly with conscientiousness (see, e.g.,, Randler 2008). Equidirectional, high education also correlates with conscientiousness (see, e.g.,, O’Connor and Paunonen 2007; Poropat 2009). In our sample, we were able to show a positive relationship between the two variables morningness/early bedtimes with high education. With regard to the correlations with conscientiousness of chronotype and high education individually, the connection between these two may be strengthened. Moreover, conscientiousness as well as morningness correlate with self-efficacy (Staller et al. 2021) which is a predictor for high education (Valentine et al. 2004). This again points to a possible strengthening of the relationship and opens up room for further study.
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