Julia Grass , Jan Dörendahl , Tina Losereit , Samuel Greiff , Anja Strobel
{"title":"Thinking to promote happiness: Need for cognition, subjective well-being, and burnout in different populations","authors":"Julia Grass , Jan Dörendahl , Tina Losereit , Samuel Greiff , Anja Strobel","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104383","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The relation between Need for Cognition and well-being receives increasing research interest. We report two studies linking Need for Cognition to well-being in a population representative sample of N = 200 participants and in two further subsamples comprising students (n = 256) and working adults (n = 198). Higher Need for Cognition was strongly associated with increased positive affect and lower burnout levels. Students with higher Need for Cognition were more satisfied with the content of their studies, working individuals reported increased job satisfaction. Our results support the notion of associations between Need for Cognition and well-being while it is necessary to distinguish between well-being facets and burnout dimensions. They indicate that Need for Cognition should be considered a resource for well-being.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41912107","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":"Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents","authors":"Jamila Willms , Elisa Weber , Manon van Scheppingen , Wiebke Bleidorn","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104395","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104395","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Do people feel better about themselves on days when they are more satisfied with their relationship? This study addressed this question in a sample of 238 first-time parents who provided daily reports of their self-esteem and relationship quality 6 weeks before, 6 months after, and 18 months after the birth of their first child. Consistent with theory and between-person evidence, we found both mothers and fathers to have higher self-esteem on days when they were more satisfied with their relationship than on an average day. The link between daily relationship quality and self-esteem was robust across the transition to parenthood and generalized across people with different levels of dispositional self-esteem and ages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46173101","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":"Gender differences in self-efficacy partially explain the female underprediction effect","authors":"Tyler L. Minnigh, Thomas R. Coyle","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104385","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104385","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Women tend to perform better in college than their admission test scores predict. The observed differential prediction of men's and women's academic performance<span> based on academic tests is known as the female underprediction effect. Prior research demonstrates that gender differences in trait-level conscientiousness explain some of the observed female underprediction effect. The current study examined the effects of the facets of conscientiousness (i.e., self-efficacy, orderliness, dutifulness, achievement-striving, self-discipline, and cautiousness) in mediation analyses which were expected to partially explain the relationship between gender and academic performance after controlling for test scores. The results show that the relationship between gender and GPA is mediated by trait-level conscientiousness and, more specifically, that the effect is mediated by the facet of self-efficacy.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44499101","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}
Lena Roemer , Gundula Stoll , James Rounds , Matthias Ziegler
{"title":"Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life","authors":"Lena Roemer , Gundula Stoll , James Rounds , Matthias Ziegler","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Recent studies further the development of trait-state models for vocational interests. Unlike personality, vocational interest states were found to vary mainly below respective trait levels. This preregistered experience-sampling study (</span><em>N</em> = 217, <em>N<sub>obs</sub></em> = 5,631) aimed to replicate and explain why the trait-state relation in vocational interests differs from personality. We tested competing assumptions about the conceptualization of interest states. Across two operationalizations using items that were (not) tailored to participants’ daily lives, interest states varied mainly below trait levels. This suggests that the distinct pattern is no measurement artifact, but that interest traits generally constrain the experience of states in daily life. Overall, the results refine the conceptualization of interest states and demonstrate that different psychological constructs meaningfully differ in their trait-state relations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44893544","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":"Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating","authors":"Zachary K. Rothschild, Lucas A. Keefer","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104400","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rothschild and colleagues (2012) proposed that people scapegoat to maintain either their moral identity or control. Two experiments manipulated the threat posed by Climate Change to examine how individual differences moderate <em>who</em> blames a scapegoat. Study 1 (N = 835) found variation in Personal Need for Structure moderated scapegoating when climate change was a chaotic hazard, but not after reminders of one’s own culpability. A second preregistered study (N = 1183) found that whereas those with a high Need for Closure scapegoated when a causally uncertain depiction of climate change threatened their control, those high in Collective Narcissism scapegoated when culpability threatened their group’s moral image. This suggests differences in certainty and status concerns predict scapegoating in different contexts. (1<!--> <!-->1<!--> <!-->9)</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47089577","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":"Misperceptions in a post-truth world: Effects of subjectivism and cultural relativism on bullshit receptivity and conspiracist ideation","authors":"Julia Aspernäs, Arvid Erlandsson, Artur Nilsson","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104394","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104394","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research investigated whether belief in truth relativism yields higher receptivity to misinformation. Two studies with representative samples from Sweden (Study 1, <em>N</em> = 1005) and the UK (Study 2, <em>N</em> = 417) disentangled two forms of truth relativism: subjectivism (truth is relative to subjective intuitions) and cultural relativism (truth is relative to cultural context). In Study 1, subjectivism was more strongly associated with receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit and conspiracy theories than cultural relativism was. In Study 2 (preregistered), subjectivism predicted higher receptivity to both forms of misinformation over and above effects of analytical and actively open-minded thinking, profoundness receptivity, ideology, and demographics; the unique effects of cultural relativism were in the <em>opposite</em> direction (Study 1) or non-significant (Study 2).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42547611","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}
Sheri L. Johnson , Julia M. Levitan , Lana C. Marks , Benjamin A. Swerdlow , Brahamdeep Kaur , Kiara R. Timpano
{"title":"Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states","authors":"Sheri L. Johnson , Julia M. Levitan , Lana C. Marks , Benjamin A. Swerdlow , Brahamdeep Kaur , Kiara R. Timpano","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104397","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Emotion-triggered impulsivity is robustly tied to psychopathologies. We hypothesized that one form of emotion-triggered impulsivity, Feelings Trigger Action, would be correlated with speech disfluencies during high arousal. Participants with a range of internalizing and externalizing symptoms completed a stressful speech task in which they were videorecorded while discussing a controversial topic. Skin conductance was gathered to<!--> <!-->index<!--> <!-->arousal. Consistent with hypotheses, Feelings Trigger Action scores related to modestly higher levels of speech repairs when participants were experiencing relatively higher arousal (<em>N</em> = 198). There was some evidence that a second form of emotion-triggered impulsivity also related to more speech errors during high arousal. Findings provide early evidence that speech disfluencies might be one manifestation of emotion-triggered impulsivity. Limitations and direction for future research are considered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43662610","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":"The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments","authors":"Lameese Eldesouky , Tammy English","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104399","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We tested how expression-based regulation strategies influence personality judgments in an experiment with 164 undergraduate stranger dyads. One partner suppressed or amplified their emotional expressions during a conversation. Afterwards, partners rated their own and their partner’s personality. Suppressors were seen as less extraverted and warm than controls and amplifiers, while amplifiers were seen as more neurotic. Suppressors were not judged less accurately than others. However, amplifiers’ warmth and extraversion were judged more accurately than controls and suppressors. Suppression and amplification largely did not impact judgments of others, except suppressors more accurately judged others’ warmth than controls. Thus, suppression and amplification distinctly impacted personality judgments made about the regulators by others but had little impact on regulators’ judgments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44431504","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":"Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology","authors":"Kristina Eggermont , Koen Raymaekers , Laurence Claes , Tinne Buelens , Annabel Bogaerts , Koen Luyckx","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) introduced in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), provides a dimensional operationalization of personality disorders and brings into account developmental tasks typical to adolescence, which makes it more suitable to apply to personality disorder symptomatology in adolescence. This study investigated the developmental course of impairment in personality functioning (IPF) in adolescence as well as trajectory classes and co-development with Big-Five personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathological behaviors/symptoms. Data from a three-wave longitudinal study in 1480 high school students were used. Results revealed no significant linear change of IPF in the total sample. Four developmental trajectory classes emerged and classes significantly differed regarding psycho(patho)logical variables.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46269527","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}
Victoria Pringle , Erika N. Carlson , Brian S. Connelly
{"title":"What’s “moral” in moral impressions? Exploring self-other agreement about the trait-specific component of moral impressions","authors":"Victoria Pringle , Erika N. Carlson , Brian S. Connelly","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Moral traits are considered central to interpersonal perception, but moral impressions can be difficult to interpret due to the evaluative and less observable nature of moral traits. In a sample of 266 undergraduates and their close others, we found that evaluative attitudes and method variance constitute a large part of moral impressions, but importantly, that they can be teased apart from substance. Furthermore, we found modest but significant self-other agreement only when method variance was taken into account and that moral trait variance was small compared to method variance. Taken together, we conclude that even though moral impressions in our sample were overwhelmingly explained by method variance, there was also a shared social reality based on trait variance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43037276","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}