Robert J. Ridder , Charlotte V.O. Witvliet , Hiroki Matsuo , Juliette L. Ratchford , Karen K. Melton , Perry L. Glanzer , Sarah A. Schnitker
{"title":"Pursuing personal goals: temporal associations of welcoming accountability, personal responsibility, and progress satisfaction","authors":"Robert J. Ridder , Charlotte V.O. Witvliet , Hiroki Matsuo , Juliette L. Ratchford , Karen K. Melton , Perry L. Glanzer , Sarah A. Schnitker","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104652","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104652","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research shows welcoming accountability and a related construct, personal responsibility, are relevant for goal pursuit, but whether they contribute to future satisfaction with goal pursuit progress remains unstudied. This longitudinal investigation examined the pursuit of self-identified goals in 893 students attending 14 US universities across 4 timepoints spanning 2 years using multi-level random-intercepts cross-lagged panel modeling. Between-persons, welcoming accountability, personal responsibility, and goal progress satisfaction were positively associated. At the within-person goal-level, welcoming accountability and personal responsibility predicted higher subsequent levels of each other. However, satisfaction with goal progress only predicted subsequent welcoming accountability. This cybernetic approach to studying welcoming accountability in goal pursuit advances personality science and accountability theory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104652"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144922330","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":"Do all larks have it better and owls have it worse? Examining the adaptiveness of circadian types in light of the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits","authors":"Joanna Gorgol-Waleriańczyk, Klaudia Ponikiewska, Włodzimierz Strus","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104654","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104654","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chronotype differences have traditionally been studied through a unidimensional morningness-eveningness model, linking morningness with positive (adaptive) outcomes and eveningness with negative (maladaptive) ones. This study expands this view using a multidimensional approach, assessing Morning Affect, Eveningness, and Distinctness. Latent Profile Analysis was conducted on a sample of 754 Polish adults, and differences between the resulting profiles were examined using the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits to assess underlying (mal)adaptive personality configurations. The analysis revealed four chronotype profile, two morning types: ‘hardy larks’ (stable, adaptive) and ‘vulnerable larks’ (restrained, inhibited), ‘night owls’ (depressive, emotionally labile) and ‘intermediate finches’ (disinhibited, reactive). These findings indicate that chronotype is indeed a multidimensional construct, with its subtypes reflecting distinct constellations of (mal)adaptive personality traits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104654"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158774","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}
Jiafang Chen , Barbara Nevicka , Astrid C. Homan , Gerben A. van Kleef
{"title":"You are what you read: Antagonistic narcissism predicts increased preference for antisocial and reduced preference for prosocial information","authors":"Jiafang Chen , Barbara Nevicka , Astrid C. Homan , Gerben A. van Kleef","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104653","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104653","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While narcissistic individuals tend to exhibit more antisocial (rather than prosocial) behavior in social contexts and evaluate antisocial information more positively, it is unclear how they first come to <em>select</em> social information. This is important to understand as it has bearing on their subsequent behavior. We hypothesized that individuals higher (vs. lower) on antagonistic narcissism select less prosocial and more antisocial information. In two studies, we investigated how antagonistic narcissism affects one’s choice of news headlines. We also examined narcissists’ social motives, (affective) empathy, and sensation seeking as potential underlying mechanisms (S2). Higher antagonistic narcissism predicted selection of less prosocial (S1–S2) and more antisocial information (S1), both of which were explained by lower empathy and higher sensation seeking (S2).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104653"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997280","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 contributions of personality traits to the core, components, and development of occupational well-being","authors":"Gudrun Reindl, Hannes Zacher","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104650","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104650","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article aims to clarify how the Big Five personality traits predict individual differences and changes in three unique occupational well-being components (i.e., the variance that does not overlap with the other two components), beyond core occupational well-being (i.e., the shared variance of the components). We conceptualized occupational well-being as job satisfaction, work meaningfulness, and work psychological richness, and considered employees’ priorities in occupational well-being components. Across seven monthly measurement waves, <em>N</em> = 612 participants provided data, which were analyzed using linear mixed-effect models, growth-curve analyses, and multinomial regression analyses. All five personality traits positively predicted core occupational well-being. Relationships with the unique occupational well-being components differed. Emotional stability, conscientiousness, and openness most strongly predicted occupational well-being. Openness most strongly predicted growth in core occupational well-being. Openness and agreeableness were the best predictors of employees’ priorities in occupational well-being components.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104650"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145219869","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}
Joshua D. Foster , Joost M. Leunissen , Barbara Nevicka , Constantine Sedikides
{"title":"Silver tongues, plastic pens: modality-dependent persuasiveness in narcissists","authors":"Joshua D. Foster , Joost M. Leunissen , Barbara Nevicka , Constantine Sedikides","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104649","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104649","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Grandiose narcissists claim to be highly persuasive, and they possess characteristics (e.g., charisma, confidence) that might make them so. We report four studies that put their claims to the test. One study focused on spoken persuasion and three on written persuasion (<em>N</em> = 872 speakers/writers and 987 targets who rated persuasiveness). In all four studies, narcissistic speakers/writers claimed that their speeches/essays would be persuasive. However, whereas targets rated their speeches as relatively persuasive (Study 1), they rated their essays as relatively unpersuasive (Studies 2A–C). Differences between study samples and methods preclude direct comparisons between communication modalities. Nevertheless, the results offer a proof of concept that narcissists may not be as persuasive as they think they are, especially when writing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104649"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926495","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}
Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska , Jarosław Piotrowski , Artur Sawicki , John J. Skowronski , Peter K. Jonason , Jan Cieciuch , Włodzimierz Strus , Constantine Sedikides
{"title":"Re-assessing communal narcissism: the narcissistic sanctity and heroism concept","authors":"Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska , Jarosław Piotrowski , Artur Sawicki , John J. Skowronski , Peter K. Jonason , Jan Cieciuch , Włodzimierz Strus , Constantine Sedikides","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104651","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104651","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We propose a new conceptualization of communal narcissism, the Narcissistic Sanctity and Heroism Concept (NSHC). We define narcissistic sanctity as<!--> <!-->a biased sense of exceptional warmth and morality, and narcissistic heroism as a heightened sense of self-importance in improving the social world.<!--> <!-->Drawing on 11 samples<!--> <!-->(<em>N</em> = 5606; 56 % women; Polish general population), we validated the NSHC, using<!--> <!-->circumplex models and peer-rating data. Sanctity reflects a communal<!--> <!-->orientation, as evidenced in relation to narcissistic grandiosity, narcissistic antagonism, personality correlates, and overrating on communal (but not agentic) traits. Heroism reflects a communal and agentic orientation, as evidenced in relation to narcissistic grandiosity, narcissistic antagonism, personality correlates, and overrating on agentic and communal traits. The NSHC has theoretical and empirical promise.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 104651"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895218","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":"When psychopathy plays nice: Self-construal moderate the relationship between psychopathic traits and prosocial behaviors","authors":"Yiheng Lin , Yi Qiao , Huajian Ma , Bin Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104648","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104648","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Psychopathy is often conceptualized as an antisocial construct, with limited attention given to its expression of prosocial behaviors. This study investigated how interdependent and independent self-construal moderate the relationship between psychopathic traits and different forms of prosocial behavior in a large Chinese community sample (<em>N</em> = 1,519). Using a three-factor model of psychopathy (Egocentricity, Callousness, Antisocial), our analyses revealed that interdependent self-construal significantly moderated the expression of egocentric traits. Specifically, interdependence strengthens the positive association between egocentricity and public prosocial behaviors while attenuating its negative links to anonymous and altruistic prosocial behaviors. The moderating role of independent self-construal was less consistent, weakening the negative effects of egocentricity traits on altruistic helping while strengthening the antisocial traits negative links. These findings support the moderated-expression model of psychopathy, highlighting self-construal as critical contextual cues that moderate the expression of psychopathic traits relating to prosocial behaviors. Implications for the role of sociocultural factors in understanding prosociality among individuals with psychopathic traits are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104648"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144827080","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}
Patrick M. Markey, Hanna Campbell, Samantha Goldman
{"title":"A framework for the initial phases of personality test development using large language models and artificial personas","authors":"Patrick M. Markey, Hanna Campbell, Samantha Goldman","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104647","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104647","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explored using Large Language Models (LLMs) in early personality test construction, presenting a method to efficiently assess item relevance to psychological constructs. Study 1 generated self-esteem and Five-Factor Model (FFM) scales by analyzing AI-agent responses, resulting in scales with high internal consistency and face validity. Study 2 tested these scales with 449 human participants, finding that the AI-created self-esteem scale showed satisfactory internal consistency and strong correlations with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The AI-created FFM scales demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency, convergent and divergent validity with the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised, and similar correlational patterns, though with some discrepancies in Agreeableness. These findings suggest LLMs can streamline item selection in personality test development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104647"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144770671","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}
Oleg Gorbaniuk , Krystian Kajetan Hartmann , Maciej Talewski , Julia Gorbaniuk , Hubert Godziewski , Klaudia Pianka
{"title":"The comprehensive psycholexical taxonomy of the Polish lexicon of emotions","authors":"Oleg Gorbaniuk , Krystian Kajetan Hartmann , Maciej Talewski , Julia Gorbaniuk , Hubert Godziewski , Klaudia Pianka","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104646","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104646","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Psycholexical approach has made a significant contribution to achieving consensus in the taxonomy of personality traits. The aim of the paper is to propose the first psycholexical taxonomy of emotions. Two independent studies were conducted to determine the structure of the comprehensive list of morphologically unique emotion descriptors. In the first study (1,038 participants), emotions were described using single terms, whereas in the second study (679 participants) using short sentences based on the same list of descriptors. Parallel analysis and congruence coefficients (self- vs. observer-rating, orthogonal vs. oblique rotation), revealed in both studies similar eleven-component structure: Sadness-Apathy, Distress, Anger, Fear-Anxiety, Panic-Loss of Control, Enjoyment-Relaxation, Surprise-Interest, Shame, Contempt, Regret-Guilt-Compassion, and Love. The correspondence between this structure and existing emotion classification frameworks is discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104646"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748828","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 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}