{"title":"A meta-analysis of multidimensional perfectionism and impostor phenomenon","authors":"Andrew P. Hill , John K. Gotwals","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104639","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104639","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A meta-analysis is provided to disentangle the relationship between perfectionism and impostor phenomenon. Following a preregistered protocol, a systematic search provided 25 studies (N = 12,141) and 42 effect sizes. Perfectionistic strivings had a small positive relationship with impostor phenomenon (<em>r</em><sup>+</sup>=.15[.07, 0.23]) and perfectionistic concerns had a large positive relationship with impostor phenomenon (<em>r</em><sup>+</sup>=.61[.55, 0.65]). In turn, perfectionistic concerns made a substantially larger contribution to the overall effect of perfectionism (β<sub>PS</sub> + β<sub>PC</sub> = 0.57[.54, 0.60]). There was also evidence that the relationship with perfectionistic concerns was larger in studies with more females. The overlap between perfectionism and impostor phenomenon appears to relate mainly to a need to appear perfect to others. Future research should examine their development and mediating and moderating factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104639"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144665501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era","authors":"Craig S. Neumann, Darlene A. Ngo","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104638","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Conservative political ideology is associated with social dominance orientation (SDO), right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), psychopathic propensities (PPs), and other malevolent dispositions, and reduced empathy. We examined the links between SDO, RWA, PPs and political ideology, and whether those who view Trump favorably reported higher PPs (or malevolent traits) and reduced empathy or benevolent dispositions. Two U.S. community samples were used; Sample 1 was white vs. minority status men (N = 1000, 32 % minority) and Sample 2 contained men and women (N = 8,047; 45 % male). Structural equation modeling was utilized to represent ideology in terms of right- vs. left-leaning orientation on social and economic issues, including participants’ views of Trump. Malevolent (+) and benevolent (−) dispositions and empathy disturbances were significantly linked with conservative ideology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104638"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A social relations perspective on attachment orientations and judgments of relationship quality in friendships","authors":"Zoe Dunnum , William J. Chopik","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104637","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104637","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How well friendships are going likely depends on perceptions people have about their friends, such as how they approach relationships in general. Adopting a social relations model perspective, we examined sources of variation in relationship quality (across 10 indicators) and attachment judgments in a sample of 377 quads of friends (<em>N</em> = 1,508 individuals). Relationship quality largely stemmed from the shared interactions between two people, although some perceiver variance was found. Judgments of avoidance largely stemmed from consensus; judgments of anxiety came from a mix of consensus and perceiver variance (i.e., tending to see everyone as anxious or not). Bivariate analyses found that people seen as anxious were seen as ambivalent friends — providing both positive and negative experiences for friends.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104637"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144704900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iva Vukojević , Irina Masnikosa , Matej Gjurković , Nina Drobac , Ana Butković , Martina Lozić , Denis Bratko , Jan Šnajder
{"title":"Personality adjectives in the digital world: A natural language processing study of Big Five adjectives and their usage on Reddit","authors":"Iva Vukojević , Irina Masnikosa , Matej Gjurković , Nina Drobac , Ana Butković , Martina Lozić , Denis Bratko , Jan Šnajder","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104634","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104634","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Psycholexical studies explore the intricate interplay between language and personality traits, focusing on trait representation in language. One aspect of such representation is the frequency of personality adjective usage. This study examines how linguistic and trait-label properties of personality adjectives relate to their usage frequency. Utilizing a corpus from the social media platform Reddit, we employ natural language processing to analyze Big Five adjectives in person-descriptions. Our results show that trait-label properties exhibit different patterns when considered together rather than separately from linguistic properties—for instance, prefixal composition nullifies the expected effect of polarity on frequency. These findings highlight the importance of considering both linguistic and trait-label properties when assessing the usage of personality adjectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104634"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emanuel Jauk , Sarah Sieber-Frank , Clara Carvalho Hilje , Philipp Kanske , Ricarda Steinmayr , Johannes C. Ehrenthal
{"title":"Personality functioning across clinical and nonclinical models: further evidence for conceptual convergence between different traditions and the status of personality functioning as a competence construct","authors":"Emanuel Jauk , Sarah Sieber-Frank , Clara Carvalho Hilje , Philipp Kanske , Ricarda Steinmayr , Johannes C. Ehrenthal","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Personality functioning (PF) is the central criterion for personality pathology in clinical models. Nonclinical personality models assume emotional intelligence or the general factor of personality as general indicators of adaptiveness. Both are conceptualized as more competence-like than solely trait-like. It has rarely been investigated (1) whether these constructs might assess the same latent dimension, and (2) if they indeed reflect competencies beyond traits. In three samples (<em>N</em> = 592), we observed (1) high convergence between all constructs. (2) PF was related to a full-scale emotional competence performance measure (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test), supporting its status as a competence construct. (3) Further, all constructs are strongly saturated with PF variance, and PF can be reliably estimated from common personality scales.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104633"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144694985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the text: Voice as a stable marker of self-esteem","authors":"Xinlei Zang , Shuai Wang , Juan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104636","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104636","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Self-esteem is a core personality trait, yet its assessment often relies on self-reports vulnerable to contexts. Integrating Trait Activation Theory, Whole Trait Theory, and the Self-Organizing Self-Esteem model, this study explores voice as a context-independent marker of self-esteem. Across three tasks (<em>N</em> = 211) varying in self-relevance and social evaluative threat, voice features outperformed text in recognizing self-esteem and generalized across situations. Specifically, greater loudness, higher and more stable warmth, and shorter and less variable silence durations indicated higher self-esteem. Based on these findings, we propose the Modality-Based Whole Trait Theory, extending existing theories by emphasizing modality as a boundary condition for personality expression. These findings advance objective personality assessment and highlight the potential of voice for capturing trait-level information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104636"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144605746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing","authors":"Jonas Potthoff, Gabriela Hofer, Anne Schienle","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Self-viewing varies significantly among individuals. The present eye-tracking study investigated whether specific facets of grandiose narcissism and self-esteem are associated with gaze behavior during self-face viewing.</div><div>In a novel visual probe task, participants pressed a button when a visual target appeared next to a mirror reflecting their face. The task required participants to shift their attention away from their reflection that acted as a distractor. Task performance and gaze behavior were analyzed in relation to general grandiose narcissism, domain-specific narcissism, self-esteem, and self-worth contingencies.</div><div>Participants with higher grandiose narcissism and self-esteem spent more time fixating their face, suggesting that people with higher self-esteem or narcissism are more easily distracted by their face than people with lower levels of these traits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104632"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144588836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dimitri van der Linden , Andrew Cutler , Putri A. van der Linden , Curtis S. Dunkel
{"title":"The general factor of personality (GFP) in natural language: A deep learning approach","authors":"Dimitri van der Linden , Andrew Cutler , Putri A. van der Linden , Curtis S. Dunkel","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104635","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104635","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using Large Language Models (LLMs), we tested the presence of a general factor of personality (GFP) in trait words in natural language (e.g., thousands of books and posts on internet). We included three set of trait words, extracted from well-known classical lexical studies on personality. The general factor we found represented a continuum of social desirable traits, similar to a typical GFP. Moreover, this LLM-based general factor correlated <em>r</em> = 0.86 with the general factor in the original Saucier and Goldberg (1997) data. The findings were robust regarding type of machine learning prompts and statistical methods used. The findings indicate that in natural language, a GFP exists that is similar to previous lexical studies using human raters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104635"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What’s in a name? Exploring overlap among self-belief constructs","authors":"Lindsay S. Ackerman, Richard E. Lucas","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Jingle-jangle fallacies, which are pervasive in psychology, complicate measurement, propagate confusion among scholars, and weaken the conclusions researchers can draw from their studies. In the present study (<em>N</em> = 1,258), we investigated these issues in the domain of self-belief constructs (self-efficacy, self-competence, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, self-value, self-regard, self-liking, and self-respect). Exploratory factor analyses at the scale- and item-levels provided evidence of significant overlap among constructs. A two-factor solution may be best supported by the data, where self-efficacy constitutes one factor and all other constructs the second (though where self-competence falls is less clear). Ultimately, these findings draw attention to the need for clear and concise construct definitions, precise and well-validated measurement instruments, and careful consideration when researchers propose new constructs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104631"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144501812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna M. Zalewska , Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska , Olga Grabowska-Chenczke , Anna Werner-Maliszewska , Agnieszka Zawadzka-Jabłonowska
{"title":"Family experiences while growing up, personality traits, and well-being: A mediation analysis","authors":"Anna M. Zalewska , Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska , Olga Grabowska-Chenczke , Anna Werner-Maliszewska , Agnieszka Zawadzka-Jabłonowska","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how early-life family experiences are associated with adult well-being (subjective, eudaimonic social, and eudaimonic personal well-being) and the role of personality traits in this process. Using data from 202,898 respondents across 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study (representative samples, cross-sectional data), we find that positive family experiences predict higher well-being and foster traits such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability, but not openness. These four traits positively predict all well-being types, while openness is linked only to personal well-being and shows no association with subjective well-being and a weak negative link to social well-being. Our results show that personality traits (excluding openness) partially explain how early-life family experiences are associated with adult well-being. Additionally, growing up with married parents is linked to higher social well-being, a relationship fully mediated by personality traits except for extraversion. These findings underscore the possibly lasting impact of early-life family environments on well-being in adulthood, with personality traits acting as key mechanisms. While supportive family backgrounds contribute to well-being through personality development, fostering these traits in individuals from less favorable backgrounds may promote well-being and personal growth. Understanding these associations can inform policies and interventions that help individuals flourish.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104630"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144523666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}