{"title":"Psychological and sexual functioning of persons suffering from post-SSRI sexual dysfunction - cases study.","authors":"Kacper Gargul, Beata Pastwa-Wojciechowska","doi":"10.5114/cipp/193244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp/193244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Post-SSRI syndrome is a condition following the discontinuation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) where, despite ceasing to take the pharmacological agents, the effects persist - and they may develop upon drug initiation. While most research has focused on identifying and classifying the main somatic symptoms, the psychological consequences of post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) syndrome are insufficiently explored.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The report presents descriptions of two cases of PSSD, as well as two contrasting cases in which the effects of taking SSRI drugs seem to have had a positive impact on the mental and sexual sphere.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results of the study indicate a wide range of sexual side effects of taking SSRI drugs. The four cases discussed are evidence, on the one hand, of the frequent occurrence of side effects in the form of sexual disorders that may persist without a guarantee of return to previous sexual performance. On the other hand, the presented cases show, in some situations, a positive increase in human sexual functioning.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study provides new information on the discussed issue and at the same time highlights the still insufficient scientific knowledge on this topic. In light of the present results, further systematic research is needed to explore the pathogenesis of the syndrome and develop effective interventions and treatments. Subsequent research should take into account, in particular, clinical trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"35-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11995020/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144020213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disentangling the relationship between Machiavellianism and social dominance orientation.","authors":"Bruno Bonfá-Araujo","doi":"10.5114/cipp/189857","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/189857","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Machiavellianism and social dominance orientation are two constructs associated with socially undesirable behavior and predictors of prejudice; however, their relationship has mainly been investigated through measures that only assess the antagonism dimension of Machiavellianism. Thus, this study aimed to disentangle their relationship using an instrument assessing agency and planfulness.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Participants were 767 Brazilians aged 18 to 71 (<i>M</i> = 30.10, <i>SD</i> = 10.60), most identified as women (67.7%) and assessed using the Five Factor Machiavellianism Inventory, the Short Dark Triad, and the Social Dominance Orientation Scale. A path model was used, where the Machiavellianism and the Dark Triad dimensions predicted social dominance orientation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results suggest that antagonism was indeed the primary and only dimension of Machiavellianism to predict dominance and antiegalitarianism, while agency and planfulness were non-significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings suggest that socially dominant traits have their roots in antagonism, showing no interaction with planning and impulse control.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"12 4","pages":"282-286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11650477/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142855952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livia Yuliawati, Afinnisa Rasyida, Putri Ayu P Wardhani
{"title":"Who I am and who I want to be: The positive effect of self-concept clarity on purpose, life satisfaction, and personal meaning among Chinese and Indonesian emerging adults.","authors":"Livia Yuliawati, Afinnisa Rasyida, Putri Ayu P Wardhani","doi":"10.5114/cipp/188359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp/188359","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The importance of self-concept clarity to oneself has been shown in prior studies among Western communities. However, few studies have investigated self-concept clarity and its outcomes cross-culturally in the Asian context. Therefore, we assessed self-concept clarity in relation to purpose in life, life satisfaction, and personal meaning among Chinese and Indonesian samples.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The survey participants were 248 Indonesian undergraduates and 311 Chinese, aged 18-25 years, recruited through convenience sampling. An online survey was distributed to universities in Hong Kong and in Indonesia in which all participants gave written informed consent. Reliability and confirmatory factor analyses of each scale were performed in each sample. A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test the invariance of the analysis of the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings of the study demonstrate a consistent and significant positive impact of self-concept clarity on purpose in life, which subsequently predicts life satisfaction and personal meaning in both groups. Interestingly, only in the Chinese sample did self-concept clarity exhibit a direct positive correlation with personal meaning. Meanwhile, in the Indonesian sample, there was no significant effect of self-concept clarity on meaningfulness. In other words, the Indonesian sample emphasizes the need to shape goals after achieving self-concept clarity to make a meaningful life.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study highlights the importance of fostering self-concept clarity among students in both countries to shape their goals and aims for better well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"50-57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11995019/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Five personality traits, BIS/BAS dimensions and meteoropathy: a mediation model.","authors":"Włodzimierz Oniszczenko","doi":"10.5114/cipp/186714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp/186714","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The main goal of this cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between Big Five personality traits and meteoropathy and the role of the behavioural activation system (BAS) and the behavioural inhibition system (BIS) as mediators in this relationship.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The sample consisted of 1,336 women and men gathered via the online recruitment platform from the general population. The participants' ages ranged from 18 to 76 years (<i>M</i> = 29.52, <i>SD</i> = 11.67). The Polish version of the Ten Item Personality Inventory was used to assess Big Five personality traits. The BIS and BAS were diagnosed using the Polish version of the original BIS/BAS scales. Meteoropathy was assessed using the Polish adaptation of the METEO-Q questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Meteoropathy correlated negatively with emotional stability and positively with the BIS level and BAS Reward Responsiveness. BIS negatively correlated with emotional stability. The correlations between meteoropathy and other personality variables were nonsignificant. The analysis indicated a significant indirect relationship between emotional stability and meteoropathy through BIS. We demonstrated the importance of neuroticism (low emotional stability) and the BIS dimension for the development of meteoropathy symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Neuroticism and the BIS dimension were important for the development of meteoropathy symptoms. The results may be helpful in assessing the risk of developing meteoropathy in a healthy population.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11995024/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 trait correlates with self-reported acts of rape.","authors":"Katya M Mickelson, Alan R King","doi":"10.5114/cipp/185625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp/185625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sexual aggression researchers have identified \"dark triad\" personality traits as potential etiologic contributors to rape perpetration. The Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 (PID-5) canvasses trait dimensions that underlie a proposed hybrid diagnostic model for the personality disorders.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Associations between PID-5 item/facet/domain scores and self-reported acts of rape were examined in a national survey of men (<i>N</i> = 517) administered on a crowdsourcing platform.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Pervasive associations were found between various PID-5 risk indicators and acts of oral, anal, or vaginal physical contact with nonconsenting partner(s). While dimensional correlation coefficients were modest in size, odds ratios for elevated PID-5 facet dimensions were substantial. The odds of self-reported rape increased with the trait elevation count in a graded fashion. Selected PID-5 subscale dimensions (callousness, irresponsibility, grandiosity, intimacy avoidance, distractibility, and attention seeking) were significant correlates of self-reported rape. A subset of PID-5 items accounted for unshared variance in the criterion measures. Scores from the PID-5 appeared to provide useful risk indicators of sexual aggressiveness.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Scores from the PID-5 appeared to provide useful risk indicators of sexual aggressiveness. Men with personality disorder trait elevations appear far more likely to acknowledge past behavior that constitutes sexual assault. These interpretations were limited by the cross-sectional, retrospective, and self-report nature of these data.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"18-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11995018/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Full throttle: are motorcyclists as risk-taking as we think?","authors":"Cassidy Wiley, Taylor G Hill","doi":"10.5114/cipp/185626","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/185626","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Motorcycling, whether thought of as a leisure activity, hobby, or social activity, can add quality to one's life. Being a member of a motorcycle club may promote a sense of community, while motorcycling itself may increase feelings of awe and joy. When conceptualized as part of one's social identity, motorcycling tends to be associated with an unfavourable image or stereotype, wherein motorcyclists' personalities are characterized as rebellious, prone to risk-taking behaviour, and masculine (regardless of the motorcyclist's gender). The accuracy of this stereotype is unclear, particularly as perceived by non-motorcyclists, such as car drivers. Accordingly, the overall purpose of this exploratory study was to describe the personality profile of motorcyclists from a basic trait perspective (Big 5) and assess its congruence with non-motorcyclists' perceptions of the \"typical\" motorcyclist's personality.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A cross-sectional online survey (<i>N</i> = 376) consisting of motorcyclists (<i>n</i> = 194) and car drivers (<i>n</i> = 182) collected information on personality traits (self-report or perceived), riding behaviour (motorcyclists only), and well-being.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results show that car drivers perceive motorcyclists to be more disinhibited, less open, more neurotic, less agreeable, and less conscientious than motorcyclists self-report.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Car drivers' perceptions of motorcyclists seem to be more negative than their actual personalities, suggesting an unfavourable judgement of that community.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"12 4","pages":"267-276"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11650514/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142855954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Daily state of motivation as the effect of appreciation in a diary study.","authors":"Martin Seitl, Elif Manuoglu, Anna Hrbáčková","doi":"10.5114/cipp/185714","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/185714","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Grounded in self-determination theory, the present study aimed to investigate whether daily changes in employee motivation depend on whether employees receive appreciation from various sources at work, using a 7-day diary design. Beyond general knowledge about the effects of appreciation as an important source of motivation, there is still a lack of knowledge about the intrapersonal effect of appreciation on different types of regulation/motivation in terms of self-determination theory over time.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The sample consisted of 104 employees in full-time employment. More than half were women (72%) and the mean age was 43.25 years (<i>SD</i> = 10.53). They completed trait-level measures and then daily records, in which they reported their motivation and whether they received appreciation. Sources of appreciation were leaders, followers, and clients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Multilevel random coefficient modeling showed that employees reported higher levels of motivation on days when they received appreciation from different sources, independent of gender, trait-level motivation, and the Big Five. Furthermore, introjected regulation moderated the positive association between daily motivation and daily appreciation by the client, and appreciation did not have a lagged effect for subsequent days.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current study has both practical and theoretical implications. The results show that employee motivation can be supported through simple but effective steps through appreciation regardless of the source, although appreciation may be more important for employees with introjected regulation than for others.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"12 3","pages":"185-192"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11339848/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142054157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anton Aluja, Oscar García, Ferran Balada, Neus Aymamí, Luis F García
{"title":"Internet gaming disorder and the alternative five factor personality model: a study in a Spanish community sample.","authors":"Anton Aluja, Oscar García, Ferran Balada, Neus Aymamí, Luis F García","doi":"10.5114/cipp/185715","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/185715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study was designed to examine the prevalence and relationships between the Internet gaming disorder (IGD) behaviors, suggested by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and personality traits.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A sample community of 1,548 subjects, 707 men and 841 women, with a mean age of 40.90 and 38.89 years, respectively, was evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed that only 7 subjects (0.5%) exceeded the cut-off point of 75 points to be classed as \"disordered gamers\" proposed by Fuster et al. (2016) in Spain. This study demonstrates the unidimensionality of the IGD-20, so it can be used as an ordinal dimensional measure to study the relationship between IGD symptoms and other related variables such as personality in community samples. A multiple linear regression analysis revealed that up to 8% of the variance of the Internet Gaming Disorder-20 scale (IGD-20), as a dimensional scale, can be explained by low activity, high aggressiveness, introversion, non-planning impulsivity, sensation seeking, neuroticism and impulsiveness (attention impulsivity) using the Alternative Five Factor Model (AFFM) of personality and the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study shows that the prevalence of IGD in the Spanish population is similar to that of other Western countries. The unidimensionality of the IGD-20 allows its use in correlational studies to examine the relationship between Internet gambling behaviors and personality variables. The implications of these personality profiles are discussed in relation to the psychological and clinical mechanisms involved in Internet gaming disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"12 4","pages":"258-266"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11650488/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142855957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Views on an officer career - the relationship between personality, leadership expectations and perceived qualities.","authors":"Johan Österberg, Emma Jonsson, Marcus Börjesson","doi":"10.5114/cipp/174517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp/174517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) have had difficulties in recruiting a sufficient amount of cadets to the officer program during the period with an all-volunteer force.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Data were collected from different officer programs. 318 respondents fostered in the all-volunteer force (AVF) system completed the questionnaire and a cross-sectional design was used where cadets received a questionnaire at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of their training.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results show that the informants perceived a clear distinction between leadership challenges in the short and long term. The cadets rate their practical knowledge/experience and gaining trust as most challenging in the short term, and personnel supply and reorganization in the long term. Younger cadets rate leadership challenges higher than older cadets do, which is in line with maturing as a human being and gaining more experience. Results based on personality were consistent with previous studies. Two of the future challenges for cadets, short-term leadership and knowledge challenges, showed associations with extraversion and neuroticism.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results illustrate important topics to be stressed during the three year long officer program, in order to prepare cadets both with knowledge and skills but also with confidence and trust. This is of particular importance as the need to increase the number of cadets graduating from the academic officer program is growing. It implies that more and more cadets will be recruited directly from the basic military training, i.e., being young with relatively low military and leadership experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"12 1","pages":"51-59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11094456/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140960153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"French version of the Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO-fr): psychometric properties in young adults","authors":"Lucas Pithon, Franck Rexand-Galais","doi":"10.5114/cipp/174519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp/174519","url":null,"abstract":"The Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO) is a self-assessment instrument designed to measure the level of personality organization. In the present study, we developed and validated a French version (IPO-fr) of this instrument in a population of young adults. Its validity was established on the basis of two studies examining (1) its internal structure, and (2) its convergent validity with the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ).In the first study, we assessed the reliability of the internal structure of the French form of the IPO (IPO-fr) in a nonclinical population. Our sample comprised 602 first- and second-year psychology students, with a mean age of 19.40 years (SD = 1.95). The second study assessed the convergent validity of the questionnaire in nonclinical samples, with regard to the three clusters (A, B, and C) of personality disorders, positive and negative affect, and aggression and depressive symptoms. The sample for this second study consisted of 305 first-, second- and third-year psychology students, with a mean age of 19.83 years (SD = 2.12).The French version of the IPO is shorter than the English: 40 items instead of 57. Its internal clarity and its discriminative capacity make it easier to interpret.This study has established the relevance of the IPO-fr as a reliable and brief instrument for assessing individual personality. It could make a major contribution to the screening of personality pathology in the French population and to the assessment of treatment programs.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"116 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138599533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}