Satchit P Mandal, Yogesh K Arya, Rakesh Pandey, Tushar Singh
{"title":"The mediating role of emotion regulation in the emotional complexity and subjective well-being relationship.","authors":"Satchit P Mandal, Yogesh K Arya, Rakesh Pandey, Tushar Singh","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2022.114457","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2022.114457","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Emotional complexity involves greater emotional awareness and understanding and associates strongly with adaptive emotion regulation. Similarly, regulation of emotion is vital for achieving, restoring, and sustaining subjective well-being. The present study, therefore, tested the mediatory role of emotion regulatory processes in the relationship between emotional complexity and subjective well-being.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A total of 285 participants completed self-report measures of emotional complexity, emotion regulation, positive/negative affect, and life satisfaction, and the data were analyzed using correlations and structural equation modelling.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings indicated that individuals high in emotional complexity experience greater subjective well-being. Moreover, the results revealed that reappraisal mediated the relationship of emotion differentiation with positive affect and life satisfaction whereas suppression mediated the relationship between the range of emotions and life satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings underscore the significance of emotion regulation in mediating the relationship between emotional complexity and subjective well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535639/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82262567","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":"Respiration rate during a stress task moderates neuroticism and perceived stress in older adults.","authors":"Josh Kaplan, Daniel Klee, Barry Oken","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2022.114143","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2022.114143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research suggests that respiration rate is related to psychological factors such as neuroticism and perceived stress in addition to physiological factors. However, it is unclear how respiration rate during a laboratory stress task relates to the relationship between neuroticism and perceived stress.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>This cross-sectional secondary analysis examined respiration rate during a stress task in moderating the relationship between neuroticism and perceived stress in a sample of generally healthy older adults (<i>n</i> = 64). Respiration data were collected during an auditory oddball paradigm and the Portland Arithmetic Stress Task (PAST), a laboratory-based cognitive stressor.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results indicated that respiration rate during the PAST significantly moderated the relationship between neuroticism and perceived stress (<i>p</i> = .031), such that participants who exhibited a very low (-1.78 <i>SD</i>) respiration rate showed a non-significant relationship between neuroticism and perceived stress, whereas participants with average (mean; <i>p</i> < .001) and elevated respiration rates (+1 <i>SD</i>; <i>p</i> < .001) exhibited a significant positive relationship between neuroticism and perceived stress.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings add to a body of literature suggesting that stress reactivity is an important link between personality factors and negative outcomes. However, this is the first study to our knowledge to examine the role of physiological stress reactivity in buffering this relationship. The results suggest that individuals higher in neuroticism may attenuate the relationship between stress vulnerability and perceived stress through decreased physiological stress reactivity, particularly by exhibiting slow breathing during a stressor.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535636/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79888531","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":"Psychopathic personality disorder and cybercriminality: an outline of the issue.","authors":"Lidia Perenc","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2022.114205","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2022.114205","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rapid development of information and communication technologies has created a new dimension in interpersonal relationships, which is commonly called cyberspace. Structural features of cyberspace such as anonymity, the lack of non-verbal indicators of interaction, their asynchrony, a sense of impunity and the lack of specific norms of conduct cause that the behavior of some people online may differ significantly from their behavior in real life. Individuals with psychopathic personality disorder can use cyberspace for criminal activities such as cyberbullying, trolling, digital piracy, cybervandalism or data theft. This is a very significant problem, as some researchers predict that as digital communication develops, 'cyberpsychopaths' will become the dominant form of criminals. Currently, there is a lack of research on the relationship between the structural features of cyberspace and the expression of psychopathic personality traits and their role in committing cybercrimes.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535633/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82261638","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 in prison uniform\". The influence of personality on building work engagement, applying job crafting strategies and well-being among prison officers.","authors":"Justyna Nowicka-Kostrzewska, Bohdan Rożnowski","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.110059","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.110059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Numerous studies have been devoted to analyzing the negative effects of occupational stress on the mental health of prison officers. Less attention is paid to positive mechanisms, as postulated by positive psychology. The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between personality traits and the strategies used by prison officers to build engagement, and professional well-being by adjusting the workplace to their strengths, skills and professional preferences.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Two hundred eighty prison officers, aged 22 to 52, participated in the study (26% female). The following measurement tools were used: a personality scale (IPIP-BFM-20), the Job Crafting Questionnaire (PP), the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) and the Workplace Well-being Questionnaire (KDMP).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Personality traits such as extraversion, conscientiousness and intellect determine the type of job crafting strategies used, specifically increasing structural resources and increasing challenges, while extraversion and conscientiousness were important for building work engagement, particularly dedication at work, and the levels of well-being at work. The influence of the variable intellect was also found to be significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The collected evidence indicates that there are organizational constraints to personality expression at work and its impact on key organizational behaviors and well-being at work. It also indicates the use of job crafting strategies to build work engagement.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10699292/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88056397","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}
Saima Eman, Roderick I Nicolson, Mark Blades, Ravi P Jha
{"title":"Gender-based personality traits in physically aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behaviours.","authors":"Saima Eman, Roderick I Nicolson, Mark Blades, Ravi P Jha","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.110942","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.110942","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The current study aimed to understand the role of callousness, affective dissonance, and two subtypes of sensation seeking personality traits - 1) disinhibition and 2) thrill and adventure seeking - in physically aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behaviours (ASB) among educated youth and to explore the gender differences in them.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>An online survey was sent to a large sample of students at a UK university. Initially, a sample of <i>N</i> = 539 participants was collected but after screening out the data, <i>N</i> = 429 participants were included for analyses based on the sampling criteria.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Callousness, disinhibition, and affective dissonance significantly predicted both antisocial behaviour subtypes. We found multidimensional nature of callousness in predicting antisocial behaviours, and an intriguing relationship between thrill and adventure seeking and affective dissonance. Interesting gender differences emerged.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study has implications for the understanding of the competitive roles of gender-based psychopathological personality traits in terms of callousness and affective dissonance and sensation seeking tendencies in physically aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behaviours.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653561/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89555910","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":"Interrelation between intolerance of uncertainty and the time perspective profile in the military.","authors":"Hanna M Hromova","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.111984","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.111984","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Time perspective (TP) theory suggests that people tend to categorize their experience in terms of the past, the present, and the future. Studies have shown that a balanced TP profile supports well-being while misbalance in the TP profile is associated with various psychopathology. On the other hand, an intolerance of uncertainty (IU) underpins a variety of affective disorders. There are still a lot of questions about the relationship between IU and the TP. The purpose of this study was to clarify the interrelation between the time perspective distortion and intolerance of uncertainty level and to examine the degree to which IU and TP scales are associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms in a military sample.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The sample of servicemen (<i>N</i> = 129) completed ZTPI, the IUS-12 and PCL-5 questionnaires. Correlational and regression analyses were conducted with IU scores, TP scales and DBTP and DBTP-r coefficients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>IU total score correlates with Past Negative (PN), Present Hedonistic (PH), Present Fatalistic (PF), and Future (F) time perspectives in the military sample. Groups that differ in the level of IU have a significant difference in Past Negative TP. Regression analysis models using DBTP as well as DBTP-r coefficients showed similar results. Inhibitory IU, not Prospective IU, turned out to be a predictor of post-traumatic stress symptoms in this military, non-clinical sample.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Further studies should determine directions of associations between intolerance of uncertainty and time perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653556/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75063179","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}
Thi Khanh Ha Truong, Ha Thu Tran, Thi Hoang Giang Ngo, Van Luot Nguyen, Quang Lam Truong, Mai Trang Ngo
{"title":"Sibling bullying among Vietnamese children: the relation with peer bullying and subjective well-being.","authors":"Thi Khanh Ha Truong, Ha Thu Tran, Thi Hoang Giang Ngo, Van Luot Nguyen, Quang Lam Truong, Mai Trang Ngo","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.110025","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.110025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Siblings play an important role in a child's life. However, many children often experience sibling bullying. This study investigates differences in sibling victimization by sex, age, a parent's absence from the home due to employment, or a child's privacy and the relationship between sibling victimization, peer victimization, and the child's well-being.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Participants were Vietnamese children participating in the third wave of the International Survey of Children's Well-Being. The study included 1537 children (811 boys and 726 girls) attending public schools, age 10-14 years (<i>M</i> = 11.29, <i>SD</i> = 1.15).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results show that over half of children with siblings in this study reported being victimized by a sibling. Younger children were bullied more often than older children. Children whose father worked away from home reported an increase in bullying behavior from their siblings. Children sharing a room with siblings reported being bullied more by siblings.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results indicated a positive correlation between sibling victimization and peer victimization and a negative relationship between being bullied and a child's subjective well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653554/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89810691","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":"Social perception of sexual harassment in informal relations.","authors":"Dariusz Drążkowski, Monika Ganclerz","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2021.110026","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2021.110026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Perception of sexual harassment in informal relations is a largely uninvestigated topic. This study aimed to bridge this gap by examining the effect of the type of relationship between the perpetrator and the victim on the perception of harassment. Furthermore, we considered potential factors moderating the tested relationships: acceptance of gender stereotypes and sex.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>In total, 369 participants were assigned to one of three conditions including a female victim and a male perpetrator who was either her neighbor, coworker, or supervisor.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The participants assessed the harasser to be responsible. The supervisor's behavior was considered more punishable than that of the colleague or neighbor. The male participants reported that the perpetrator was less deserving of punishment than female participants.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings suggest that social norms regarding sexual harassment in formal and informal relationships are similar, excluding harassment by supervisors, which was rated as most punishable.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653555/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81910800","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}
Cassidy Trahair, Kristi B MacDonald, Adrian Furnham, Julie Aitken Schermer
{"title":"Altruism and the Dark Triad.","authors":"Cassidy Trahair, Kristi B MacDonald, Adrian Furnham, Julie Aitken Schermer","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2022.113436","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2022.113436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Dark Triad literature examining pro-social behaviours is minimal, with mixed results.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>This study investigates the relationships between the Dark Triad and altruistic behaviours based on self-report data from 286 adults. Altruism was assessed using two scales: a general measure as well as a more recent scale measuring compassionate altruism towards family, friends, and strangers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Machiavellianism negatively correlated with general altruism; however, when controlling for the other dark variables plus age and gender in a regression, narcissism was the only Dark Triad trait that significantly predicted altruism. None of the Dark Triad traits were significantly related to or predictive of compassionate altruism.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study demonstrates that the Dark Triad and altruism relationships are not straightforward, and that, surprisingly, strong negative relationships between the traits and altruism are not found. Limitations and future research directions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10535632/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81510685","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 Polish adaptation of the Revised NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol.","authors":"Alina Żurek, Maciej Szostak","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2022.112912","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp.2022.112912","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, we introduce the Polish adaptation of the Revised NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Investigative Interview Protocol (2014). The protocol is an evidence-based method for interviewing child witnesses and crime victims. Compared with the Standard NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol (2008), the revised version includes strategies and techniques for providing emotional support to the interviewed child. This paper describes both the standard and the revised versions of the protocol, presents scientific evidence for its efficacy, and introduces the Polish language adaptation of the tool. The recipients of this methodological instrument could include judges and forensic psychology expert witnesses, who are to actively participate in interviewing child witnesses and victims under Article 185 of the Polish Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as students of law, psychology and criminology preparing to perform these roles in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10653553/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86919886","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}