Lennart Kiel , Majse Lind , Adam T. Nissen , Wiebke Bleidorn , Christopher J. Hopwood
{"title":"Incremental relations between self-understanding and social functioning beyond personality traits in young adults","authors":"Lennart Kiel , Majse Lind , Adam T. Nissen , Wiebke Bleidorn , Christopher J. Hopwood","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Personality traits are well-established predictors of social functioning, but contemporary models of personality distinguish between personality traits and self-understanding, including reflecting on one’s mental states and the degree of coherence in the self-concept. This study examined whether self-understanding serves as a unique predictor of social functioning beyond personality traits. Additionally, it was explored whether self-understanding moderated the association between traits and social functioning. Participants (n = 859) completed measures on reflective functioning, self-concept clarity, personality traits, and social functioning. Self-Concept Clarity, Extraversion and Agreeableness, had significant, incremental effects on social functioning. Interaction effects were not significant. Results suggests that the ability to root experience in a coherent self-understanding provides valuable information about individual differences in social functioning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104546"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian P. Meier , Michael Schaefer , Li-Jun Ji , Carlota Batres
{"title":"Cross-cultural evidence for an association between agreeableness and sweet taste preferences","authors":"Brian P. Meier , Michael Schaefer , Li-Jun Ji , Carlota Batres","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104547","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research has shown that a preference for sweet foods is associated with agreeableness. This association may be due to conceptual metaphors (a “sweetie”) that link sweet taste experiences to niceness. We examined the replicability and cross-cultural consistency of this effect in four samples from different countries (China, Germany, Mexico, & the U.S.). Participants (<em>N</em> = 1,629) completed a measure of agreeableness and two measures of sweet taste preferences. We found that agreeableness was significantly and positively correlated with two different measures of sweet taste preferences in all four samples with small effect sizes (<em>r</em>s = 0.10 to 18). The association between agreeableness and a sweet taste preference appears replicable and occurring across cultures at least in the samples studied.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104547"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142586539","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":"Personality Traits and Narrative Identity: Changes in Mid-Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in Relation to Well-Being","authors":"Sean Marshall , Millie Rea , Elaine Reese","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104545","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Limited research addresses personality shifts from mid-adolescence to emerging adulthood, alongside well-being. This study analysed Big Five trait and narrative identity change (thematic coherence, causal coherence, resolution valence in turning point narratives) across 111 individuals (46.8% female) aged 15-16 who were reassessed at age 21. Neuroticism, conscientiousness, and extraversion decreased with age; thematic coherence and causal coherence increased. Traits and narrative identity were largely distinct dimensions of personality at both ages. Controlling for traits, narrative identity (negative resolution valence) in mid-adolescence uniquely predicted well-being (higher depression and lower self-esteem) in emerging adulthood. Findings suggest distinct trait and narrative identity trajectories in conjunction with youth well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142704137","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":"Does insecurity lead to envy? The longitudinal interplay between dispositional envy and self-esteem","authors":"Elina Erz , Katrin Rentzsch","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104543","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104543","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite evidence of a close, cross-sectional association between dispositional envy and low self-esteem, there is no research on the mutual development of these two constructs across time. The aim of the present research was to systematically investigate correlated change and prospective effects between dispositional envy and self-esteem at the global level and within comparison domains. In two preregistered longitudinal studies across 6 years (<em>N</em><sub>total</sub> > 7,000 adult participants), change in dispositional envy was negatively correlated with concurrent self-esteem change at the global level and within domains. Moreover, we found preliminary evidence that self-esteem predicted later change in dispositional envy but not vice versa. Our findings illustrate that the development of dispositional envy is closely intertwined with self-esteem development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104543"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors","authors":"Olivia E. Atherton , Rodica Ioana Damian","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104544","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104544","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using data from a retrospective pre-/post-longitudinal study of young adults impacted by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 (N = 330), we investigated the main and moderating effects of hurricane exposure and the Big Five personality traits on perceived changes in health and health behaviors. Linear regressions showed that more hurricane exposure was associated with worse perceived diet changes. People who were more extraverted tended to perceive better health changes, whereas people who were more neurotic tended to perceive worse overall health, sleep, diet, and exercise changes. The association between hurricane exposure and perceived diet changes was stronger for people higher in conscientiousness, such that at high levels of hurricane exposure, people who were more conscientious tended to perceive the worst diet changes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104544"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska , Artur Sawicki , Jarosław Piotrowski , Uri Lifshin , Mabelle Kretchner , John J. Skowronski , Constantine Sedikides , Peter K. Jonason , Mladen Adamovic , Attiso M.G. Agada , Oli Ahmed , Laith Al-Shawaf , Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah , Rahkman Ardi , Uzma Azam , Zana Babakr , Einar Baldvin Baldursson , Sergiu Băltătescu , Tomasz Baran , Konstantin Bochaver , Somayeh Zand
{"title":"Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict COVID-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors?","authors":"Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska , Artur Sawicki , Jarosław Piotrowski , Uri Lifshin , Mabelle Kretchner , John J. Skowronski , Constantine Sedikides , Peter K. Jonason , Mladen Adamovic , Attiso M.G. Agada , Oli Ahmed , Laith Al-Shawaf , Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah , Rahkman Ardi , Uzma Azam , Zana Babakr , Einar Baldvin Baldursson , Sergiu Băltătescu , Tomasz Baran , Konstantin Bochaver , Somayeh Zand","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a multinational study (61 countries; <em>N</em> = 15,039), we examined how collective narcissists, both agentic (ACN) and communal (CCN), reacted cognitively (through endorsement of unfounded conspiracy and health beliefs) and behaviorally (via prevention, hoarding, and prosociality) to the pandemic. Higher ACN and CCN predicted greater endorsement of COVID-19 unfounded beliefs and higher likelihood of having recently engaged in pandemic-related prevention, hoarding, and prosociality. The predictive effects of ACN and CCN were independent, suggesting construct separability. Fear positively predicted endorsement of unfounded beliefs and behaviors, but the slope of that relation was flattened when ACN and CCN were particularly high. Finally, the relation between ACN or CCN and outcomes changed across countries varying in collective fear.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104542"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425919","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}
Jeewon Oh , Emily N. Tetreau , Mariah F. Purol , Eric S. Kim , William J. Chopik
{"title":"Optimism and pessimism were prospectively associated with adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Jeewon Oh , Emily N. Tetreau , Mariah F. Purol , Eric S. Kim , William J. Chopik","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study, we examined the association between optimism/pessimism before the pandemic and adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, optimism was associated with behaviors that reduce COVID-19 transmission and higher psychological well-being (βs>|.196|) through changes in social contacts (indirect effect βs> |.004|) and/or increases in physical activity (βs=|.01|). Separating optimism and pessimism, we found that only pessimism was associated with behaviors that reduce risk, but <em>both</em> optimism and pessimism were associated with psychological well-being. By investigating them in the context of new public health challenges, we found that while the presence of optimism and absence of pessimism may both be resources for well-being, the absence of pessimism may be particularly important for health-relevant behaviors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104541"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272498","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":"Age and gender differences in the value development of Dutch adults in 11 years of longitudinal data","authors":"Oscar Smallenbroek , Adrian Stanciu","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104540","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104540","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Value development over the life-span is rarely studied due to theory and data limitations. We use the LISS data, a Dutch longitudinal dataset, to study value change in adults aged 25–70 over 11 years from 2008 to 2019 (N=10,860), using the neo- socioanalyitcal model (NSM) as a theoretical framework. We find few cohort differences, differences between age groups and non-linear value change within individuals that continues until late adulthood. Gender differences in mean-levels are stable except in universalism and self-direction, while gender differences in rates of change are observed. We conclude that the NSM provides a fruitful framework to interpret value change as a maturation process toward becoming functioning members of society along gendered and age-graded normative stages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104540"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656624000886/pdfft?md5=113f136b7540f7f00d14c739c7cb239f&pid=1-s2.0-S0092656624000886-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits","authors":"Jess M. Williams, Mark Blagrove","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104539","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigated whether sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is associated with a perceptual advantage, rather than just heightened brain, emotional and behavioural reactivity. Participants (N = 222) were tested on detection and identification of visually degraded words at three levels of difficulty, and completed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) and the Big Five Inventory. The positive subscale of the HSPS predicted both the detection and identification of visually degraded stimuli, and beyond the Big Five traits. This contradicts claims that SPS is solely a combination of Big Five traits. Importantly, the perceptual advantage for highly sensitives may balance the disadvantages of being easily overwhelmed by stimuli and indicates separate evolutionary advantages and strategies for high and low SPS humans and other mammals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104539"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kibeom Lee , Reinout E. de Vries , Michael C. Ashton
{"title":"Self/observer agreement in personality assessment by observers’ relationship types","authors":"Kibeom Lee , Reinout E. de Vries , Michael C. Ashton","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104529","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104529","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examined two forms of self/observer agreement (correlational and mean-level) in personality using a Dutch university student sample (<em>N</em>=5,405) with self-reports and observer (informant) reports from parents, siblings, friends, and partners/spouses. Correlational self/observer agreement was strong across all HEXACO-PI-R scales and across relationship types (<span><math><mrow><mover><mrow><mi>r</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>¯</mo></mrow></mover></mrow></math></span> ≥ 0.59, but highest for partners). Regarding mean-level self/observer agreement, alleged positive bias in self-reports was not observed. Only Openness showed higher means for self-reports than for observer reports across all relationship types (<em>d</em> = 0.37). Mean observer report scores varied by relationship: people perceived their children as more honest and less anxious and perceived their siblings as less agreeable than other observers did. Partner reports showed the closest mean-level agreement with self-reports.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 104529"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656624000771/pdfft?md5=b35202e898398e84438eb6c24081322c&pid=1-s2.0-S0092656624000771-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}