{"title":"Developing a Peer Relationship Scale for Adolescents: a validity and reliability study.","authors":"Fatih Aydoğdu","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.109461","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.109461","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study aims to develop a valid and reliable tool to measure adolescents' peer relationships.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The research was carried out with 543 adolescents aged 11-18 studying in secondary schools and high schools. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to determine the construct validity of the scale. Based on the results of the exploratory factor analysis, a structure consisting of four sub-dimensions and 29 items was obtained. The sub-dimensions of the scale are named as intimacy, popularity, trust, and insightfulness.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>As a result of the confirmatory factor analysis, the model fit indices were found to have a good fit. Significant relationships were found with the Peer Support Scale and the Stirling Children's Well-being Scale during the analysis of the scale's criterion validity. Cronbach's α internal consistency, split half reliability, and the test-retest method were used to assess the reliability of the scale. Cronbach's α internal consistency coefficient for the total score was found to be .93, the split-half reliability was .85, and the test-retest reliability value was .82.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>It can be inferred that the scale, which was developed based on the results obtained from validity and reliability studies, is a measurement tool that can be used in studies involving adolescents studying at the level of secondary and high school.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653559/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77355603","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":"Narcissism, activity on Facebook, and conspicuous consumption among young adults.","authors":"Małgorzata Niesiobędzka, Karol Konaszewski","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108751","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108751","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The purpose of the study was to explore relationships between narcissistic strategies, self-oriented activity on Facebook, and conspicuous consumption.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The sample consisted of 323 young Polish adults. Participants completed the Conspicuous Consumption Scale (CCS), the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ), and questions regarding Facebook use.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Empirical support was found for the assumption that conspicuous consumption was predicted by narcissistic rivalry. Although the direct impact of narcissistic admiration on conspicuous consumption was non-significant, this strategy influenced status consumption through self-verified behaviours on social media, the strongest predictor of conspicuous consumption.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This shows that narcissistic rivalry directly affects the propensity to conspicuous consumption and narcissistic admiration is related to self-verified activity on Facebook. The involvement of Facebook usage in this manner increases the acquisition and display of expensive, glamorous products as external signals of status.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653350/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88376791","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":"Cyber dating abuse and ghosting behaviours: personality and gender roles in romantic relationships.","authors":"Roberta Biolcati, Virginia Pupi, Giacomo Mancini","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108289","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108289","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cyber dating abuse (CDA) refers to physical, verbal, and psychological violence perpetrated towards a romantic partner via technology and social media. Another emerging form of online abuse is ghosting, a silent strategy to dissolve undesired relationships without openly having to break them up. The aims of the current study were (i) to explore the relationship between CDA and ghosting behaviours in romantic relationships and (ii) to investigate the roles of gender and personality traits (conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, emotional stability, openness) in prediction of CDA (perpetration and victimization).</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A sample of 409 participants (64.8% females), aged between 18 and 53 years (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 26.40, <i>SD</i> = 6.06), took part in the study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CDA and ghosting behaviours are interrelated, and women were more prone than men were to use ghosting strategies, such as stopping messages abruptly and punishing the partner through silence. Moreover, gender and personality traits differently predicted direct aggression and control/monitoring perpetration and direct aggression victimization, but they were not significant predictors of control/ monitoring victimization.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings are discussed in light of gender differences to improve our understanding of the psychological factors involved in cyber dating violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535627/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90501710","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}
Blanka Kondratowicz, Dorota Godlewska-Werner, Piotr Połomski, Meetu Khosla
{"title":"Satisfaction with job and life and remote work in the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of perceived stress, self-efficacy and self-esteem.","authors":"Blanka Kondratowicz, Dorota Godlewska-Werner, Piotr Połomski, Meetu Khosla","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108097","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between performing remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and the level of job and life satisfaction, as well as the assumed, intermediary role of the level of perceived stress and such resources as self-efficacy and self-esteem.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The study, implemented with the use of an internet application, included 283 employees. Data were gathered using a job and life satisfaction scale, the Short Scale for Measuring General Self-Efficacy Beliefs, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Perceived Stress Scale PSS-4 and a demographic information form.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed the existence of a relationship between performing remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and job and life satisfaction, and that the level of perceived stress, self-efficiency and self-esteem plays an intermediary role in this relationship. Remote working is associated with life and job satisfaction, and this relationship is mediated by levels of experienced stress, self-efficacy and self-esteem.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings indicate that remote working is associated with higher levels of job and work satisfaction. This relationship is mediated by levels of perceived stress, self-efficacy and self-esteem.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535621/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88402317","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":"The model of psychological safety of a soldier's personality.","authors":"Ihor Prykhodko","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108684","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108684","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>From 2014 to the present, Ukrainian military personnel have been fighting in Eastern Ukraine against illegal armed formations of separatists. The resulting combat stress negatively affects servicemen's mental health status. This study aimed to examine the factor structure of a scale to assess the psychological safety of a soldier's personality (PSSP), taking into account changes in the conditions of military service to improve the professional and psychological training of military personnel.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The study involved 118 officers of the National Guard of Ukraine. The semantic differential method, expert judgment, and exploratory factor analysis were used to determine the factor structure of the PSSP.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The PSSP model to maintain combat readiness in daily activities includes four components: \"Moral and communicative\", \"Motivational and volitional\", \"Value and meaning of life\" and \"Inner comfort\". For activities in extreme conditions (during combat deployment), the personality potential of four structural components is used: \"Moral and volitional regulation\", \"Coping strategies\", \"Value and meaning of life\" and \"Post-traumatic growth/regression\".</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The PSSP model consists of four components that have different content depending on the conditions for performance of professional tasks by military personnel. It is advisable to use the obtained results of the content of the PSSP model in the development of professional and psychological training programs for the purposeful formation of the resilience of military personnel, taking into account the conditions of their activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653560/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83291285","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":"Volunteerism in the last year as a moderator between empathy and altruistic social value orientation: an exploratory study.","authors":"Iwona Nowakowska","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108258","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Volunteerism is a sustained prosocial activity, and young adults are one of the most important targets for organizations recruiting volunteers. Empathy and altruistic social value orientation measured by a decomposed game are dispositional traits that might foster engagement in volunteerism.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Using a self-report online-based questionnaire study on two groups of young adults (aged 18-35, <i>N</i> = 224 non-volunteers and <i>N</i> = 178 volunteers in the last year) the relationship between empathy and altruistic social value orientation in both of these groups was explored.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed that volunteers scored significantly higher on empathy and altruistic social value orientation than non-volunteers. In non-volunteers, empathy is positively linked to altruistic social value orientation, whereas for volunteers the relationship is inversed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results provide evidence that volunteers, when high on empathy, might not necessarily be ready to share financial resources with others, as operationalized by a decomposed game.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653356/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79898319","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":"\"Real men\" need keepsakes too: both Italian men and women use inanimate objects to cope with separation.","authors":"Aleksandra Niemyjska, Giuseppe Curcio","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108146","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.108146","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Using tangible objects to alleviate distress contradicts the traditional masculinity that is stereotypically attributed to Italian men. This study tested whether the willingness to use a photograph of a romantic partner as a substitute for that person and as a cue for nostalgia in the situation of unavoidable separation depends on gender and conformity to the traditional masculine norms of Italian adults.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The study involved 119 Italian adults. Participants were randomly assigned to the separation or the connection condition. Next, they described the willingness to use a photograph of their partner as a substitute and as a cue for nostalgia; then we measured men's differences in their conformity to masculine norms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We did not find support for the hypotheses that gender or traditional masculine norms impede using inanimate objects to regulate emotions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>It is worth considering photographs as reminders of social bonds that are accessible for both men and women.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535543/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79714291","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":"Intellectual humility: an old problem in a new psychological perspective.","authors":"Wacław Bąk, Bartosz Wójtowicz, Jan Kutnik","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.106999","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.106999","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Though having been emphasised by philosophers and theologians for centuries, it is only in the last few years that the concept of intellectual humility has been explicitly defined and studied by empirical psychology. However, it has been long enough to recognise the prominent role that being intellectually humble plays for humane functioning, both at an intra- and inter-individual level. Having started with a broader philosophical and historical context, the present paper discusses the psychological conceptualisations of intellectual humility. Then the recent empirical studies are reviewed, including four strands of research referring to personality traits, cognitive functioning, social relations and religiosity. After presenting selected results, the prospects of psychological research on intellectual humility are discussed, including the limitations and challenges of measurement techniques as well as possible directions for future studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535625/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82536017","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":"How vegans, vegetarians and carnists differ in personality traits and attitudes towards animals.","authors":"Ľuboš Kováč, Peter Halama","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.107172","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.107172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Food decisions and dietary preferences are affected by a complex set of different cultural or regional factors, but personality traits seem to play an important role too. Previous research suggested that the food preferences related to veganism, vegetarianism, or carnism can be predicted by the Big Five model of personality and reflected in the attitudes towards animals.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The present study examined personality traits and attitudes towards animals of 190 (<i>M</i> = 24.90, <i>SD</i> = 7.18) Slovak participants, of whom 57 were vegans, 56 vegetarians, and 77 carnists. To measure Big Five personality traits, the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) was used. Attitudes towards animals were measured by the short 10-item version of the Animal Attitude Scale (AAS-10).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Vegans and vegetarians scored significantly higher than carnists in open-mindedness and attitude towards animals; there was no difference between scores of vegans and vegetarians. No relationship between the diet groups and demographic variables (gender, education, and age) was identified. From personality traits and sociodemo-graphic variables, only open-mindedness was a significant predictor of attitudes towards animals.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Vegans and vegetarians differ from carnists primarily in one trait: open-mindedness. Vegans and vegetarians also differ from carnists by holding more positive attitudes towards animals.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535629/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84257341","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}
Agnieszka E Łyś, Hubert Suszek, Krzysztof Fronczyk
{"title":"Psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Self-Pluralism Scale (SPS).","authors":"Agnieszka E Łyś, Hubert Suszek, Krzysztof Fronczyk","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.107173","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.107173","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Self-Pluralism Scale (SPS) measures the declared degree of self-pluralism, visible already in William James's works. Self-pluralism refers to the degree to which one perceives oneself as typically feeling, behaving, and being different, in different situations, and at different times. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the SPS.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A total of 1747 participants (67% were women) between the ages of 15 and 70 years completed the SPS along with measures of self-concept inconsistency, self-concept differentiation, dissociative experiences, internal dialogical activity, personality, and social desirability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Internal reliability and test-retest reliability were high. The full version has too low indices of fit whereas the brief, 10-item version fits the data well. As indicators of the convergent validity, a positive correlation of SPS with self-concept inconsistency, self-concept differentiation, dissociative experiences, internal dialogical activity and neuroticism and a negative correlation with agreeableness and social desirability were found.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results suggest that the brief, 10-item version is more valid than the full, 30-item version. The tool may be used for scientific research concerning self-pluralism. After collecting data from a sample that would allow norms to be constructed, the tool may also be useful for individual diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653052/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72445799","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}