{"title":"Embodied Cognition and the Structure of Personality: An Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Pathways From Early Psychomotor Function","authors":"Dimitris I. Tsomokos","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13011","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveTo explore the developmental pathways linking infant psychomotor function with personality in late adolescence through cognitive, social, and self‐regulation skills. The broader research question, seen through the lens of embodied cognition, is whether cognition and personality in youth develop from basic sensorimotor and communicative systems in infancy.MethodThe sample included 9202 participants from a representative UK birth cohort. A structural equation model examined the prospective associations between motor and communicative functions at age 9 months, cognition, self‐regulation, and prosociality at 5 years, and the five‐factor model of personality at 17 years. The associations between psychomotor function and the meta‐traits of stability and plasticity were also explored.ResultsEven after controlling for confounders and correcting for multiple paths, there was robust evidence that psychomotor development significantly predicts personality structure, with indirect pathways mediated by self‐regulation skills and general or social cognitive skills in middle childhood. While infant communicative function was significantly associated with both meta‐traits, gross motor function was significantly associated with plasticity but not stability.ConclusionsEarly psychomotor function may have long‐term effects on personality, mediated by cognitive, social, and self‐regulation skills. This finding can inform the development of socio‐educational interventions and tailored curricula in early childhood education.","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ling Xu, Friedrich M. Götz, Tobias Ebert, Siiri Silm, Uku Vainik, Wendy Johnson, René Mõttus
{"title":"Does a Small Country Have Meaningful Regional Personality Differences? The Case of Estonia","authors":"Ling Xu, Friedrich M. Götz, Tobias Ebert, Siiri Silm, Uku Vainik, Wendy Johnson, René Mõttus","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13013","url":null,"abstract":"BackgroundRegional differences in the Big Five personality domains have been observed in several countries at different geographical granularities, often correlating with regional political, economic, social, and health (PESH) indicators.ObjectiveWe examined the extent of regional personality differences in Estonia and whether these differences were meaningfully correlated with PESH indicators.MethodsUsing data from the Estonian Biobank (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 72,268; 7% of the adult population, providing unprecedented representativeness), we tested regional personality differences and their relations with PESH indicators with and without spatial smoothing.ResultsWe found that regional Big Five scores varied by 1.19 (extraversion) to 2.78 (openness) <jats:italic>T</jats:italic>‐score units across counties (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 15) and by 2.80 (extraversion) to 4.74 (openness) units across municipalities (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 74). Also, the correlations with the PESH indicators at the county and municipality levels persisted even after controlling for gender, age, and spatial dependency, and were moderately consistent with our predictions (<jats:italic>r</jats:italic> = 0.23 to 0.30) and between the county and municipality levels (<jats:italic>r</jats:italic> = 0.41).ConclusionsEstonian residents tended to be similar in personality traits regardless of their location, replicating results from other countries. Yet, small regional personality domain differences could represent valid and possibly consequential psychological variation.","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating solitude as a tool for downregulation of daily arousal using ecological momentary assessments.","authors":"Thuy-Vy T Nguyen, Delali Konu, Samuel Forbes","doi":"10.1111/jopy.12939","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jopy.12939","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This research explored arousal levels as a motivating factor for solitude-seeking. We hypothesized that solitude becomes more desirable when high-arousal emotions were heightened and individual differences in extraversion and neuroticism would moderate this pattern.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We tracked individuals' hourly experiences throughout a day. We assessed their high-arousal positive (e.g., excitement) and negative emotions (e.g., tension), whether they were alone or with others, and their preferred situation at the time of the signal. We gathered 4338 surveys from 362 participants, with 103 participants completing all hourly surveys.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Preference for and incidence of solitude changed throughout the day. Contrary to our hypotheses, lagged analyses did not indicate high-arousal emotions predicting reports of being alone an hour later. However, individuals were more likely to express a preference for solitude while experiencing high-arousal negative emotions, and less so while experiencing positive emotions. Younger individuals display stronger preference for solitude during experiences of high-arousal negative emotions. Extraversion and neuroticism did not moderate these patterns.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results highlight the distinctive appeal of solitude as a space for young adults to deal with negative emotions. We discussed how these findings are connected to existing literature and implications for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":" ","pages":"31-50"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11705511/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140960246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronja Demel, Lena Masch, David Schieferdecker, Hanna Schwander, Swen Hutter, Jule Specht
{"title":"Empathy During Crises: Investigating Attitudes, Tolerance, and Ingroup–Outgroup Dynamics in Response to Refugee Movements","authors":"Ronja Demel, Lena Masch, David Schieferdecker, Hanna Schwander, Swen Hutter, Jule Specht","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13012","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveIn times of societal crises, it is pivotal to understand and share others' feelings. Yet, the role of empathy in fostering prosocial responses during societal crises has not gained enough attention. Our study uses the onset of Russia's war on Ukraine to examine three key questions: (1) Is empathy related to attitudes toward pro‐refugee policies? (2) Does empathy correlate with a higher tolerance for diverse opinions on refugee policies? (3) Is empathy linked to perceived interpersonal closeness toward social in‐ and outgroups, including refugees?Methods and ResultsUsing observational data from online surveys conducted with a largely representative quota sample from Germany (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 1199–1631) during the initial months of the war, we found that empathy was associated with significantly higher support of pro‐refugee policies, driven primarily by empathic concern. Additionally, more empathetic individuals exhibited greater opinion diversity and showed smaller distinctions in perceived interpersonal closeness between in‐ and outgroups.ConclusionsThese findings underscore the critical role of empathy in fostering solidarity and social cohesion during societal crises.","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Konrad Piotrowski, Kamil Janowicz, Lavinia Damian‐Ilea, Oana Negru‐Subtirica
{"title":"Does Perfectionism Affect Parental Identity Development? A One‐Year Longitudinal Study","authors":"Konrad Piotrowski, Kamil Janowicz, Lavinia Damian‐Ilea, Oana Negru‐Subtirica","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13010","url":null,"abstract":"IntroductionPrevious studies have revealed that perfectionism and identity development during adolescence are related. However, no longitudinal study has been conducted on the impact of perfectionism on identity development in adulthood. In the present study, we analyzed for the first time the longitudinal relationship between personal standards, an indicator of perfectionistic strivings, and concern over mistakes and doubts about actions, indicators of perfectionist concerns, and identity development in one of the most important yet least understood domains for adults, parental identity.MethodsThis 1‐year, three‐wave longitudinal study investigated reciprocal relationships between perfectionism and parental identity among 1275 parents (aged 18–30, <jats:italic>M</jats:italic> = 26.11; <jats:italic>SD</jats:italic> = 3.00). We analyzed the results using cross‐lagged panel model analysis and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel model analysis.ResultsThe results revealed that personal standards were associated with a relative increase in seeking in‐depth information about parenthood, and doubts/concerns were associated with a relative increase in disappointment and parenthood regret. Parental identity was not reciprocally related to changes in perfectionism at the between‐person level. However, we observed the effect of parental identity on the decrease in personal standards at the within‐person level.ConclusionThe results suggest mutual relationships between perfectionism and parental identity at the between‐person and within‐person levels.","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mieke Johannsen, Naemi D Brandt, Oliver Lüdtke, Jenny Wagner
{"title":"Becoming as Open-Minded and Organized as My Classmates? Peer Effects on Self-Reported Personality Trait Development in the Classroom.","authors":"Mieke Johannsen, Naemi D Brandt, Oliver Lüdtke, Jenny Wagner","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>How does a student's personality development relate to the personality of their classmates? The school class builds a pertinent comparison group during adolescence that has been identified as a critical factor in students' development of abilities and self-perceptions. This study empirically tests the impact of classroom personality composition on changes in adolescents' Big Five personality traits. We hypothesized positive associations between class-level openness and conscientiousness and the individual development of these traits given their role in academic performance.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>To test these hypotheses and explore additional composition effects, we employed three approaches of multilevel structural equation modeling on two large longitudinal samples of German adolescents (N<sub>1</sub> = 5470; N<sub>2</sub> = 788).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our analyses yielded two principal findings: First, individual personality levels remained highly stable across different time periods. Second, contrary to our hypotheses, baseline class-level openness and conscientiousness were not positively linked to individual personality development. Instead, there were some indications that higher class-level openness was negatively linked to individual openness to experiences at the second measurement point.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We discuss the absence of systematic composition effects at the classroom level and consider methodological challenges in investigating these effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142956761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Process‐ and Status‐Centered Approach to Educational Identity Development in Late Adolescence: The Importance for Well‐Being","authors":"Elisabeth L. de Moor, Annabelle H. T. Christiaens","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13008","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveDuring late adolescence, adolescents' educational identity may be especially salient as they need to make important decisions regarding their education around the transition from secondary school to tertiary education. The way adolescents shape their identity during this period may have important implications for their academic functioning and psychological well‐being.MethodIn the present study, we used four half‐yearly measurements of educational identity from 208 Dutch adolescents (<jats:italic>M</jats:italic><jats:sub>age</jats:sub> = 17.8, 73.6% female) to examine identity change in late adolescence. We combined an identity process‐centered approach, focusing on identity commitment, exploration, and self‐doubt processes, with an identity status‐centered approach, focusing on their constellation, and linked individual differences in identity to well‐being.ResultsFindings evidenced some developmental change, generally in the direction of a more mature identity (i.e., lower exploration and self‐doubt; transitions toward a status characterized by high commitment, average exploration, and low self‐doubt), but also much stability. Furthermore, being in an identity status characterized by low engagement in all three processes was associated with poorer psychological well‐being.ConclusionsOur findings emphasize the need to examine identity, especially across identity‐salient periods, and highlight important next steps in the pursuit of a better understanding of educational identity in late adolescence.","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142887980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alain Van Hiel, Kim Dierckx, Hilde Depauw, Tassilo Tissot, Ruben Van Severen, Johnny Fontaine, Arne Roets
{"title":"The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Abilities and Ideological Attitudes Among Adolescents","authors":"Alain Van Hiel, Kim Dierckx, Hilde Depauw, Tassilo Tissot, Ruben Van Severen, Johnny Fontaine, Arne Roets","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13007","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveA large number of studies—usually based on samples of adults—have revealed a negative relationship between cognitive abilities and right‐wing ideological attitudes. Recently, this relationship has been claimed to be weaker among adolescents.MethodWe administered data in a sample of adolescents (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 531) who completed a full cognitive abilities test, as well as a number of abridged, performance‐based emotional abilities tests. We also administered Right‐Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), and Left‐Wing Authoritarianism (LWA).ResultsThe results revealed the relationships that mirror the pattern obtained in adult samples, both among middle (age 17 or younger) and late adolescents (age 18 or older). Specifically, the relationship between cognitive abilities and ideological attitudes emerged with a similar magnitude. Not only did the analyses reaffirm previous studies with regard to the relationships for RWA and SDO, but we also revealed meaningful relationships for LWA. Moreover, emotional abilities bore out even stronger relationships than cognitive abilities.ConclusionsThe present results thus show that the relationships between cognitive and emotional abilities on the one hand and ideological attitudes on the other hand also apply to adolescents. We discuss the need to better understand the development of ideological attitudes throughout childhood and adolescence.","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yongqing Yang, Jianyue Xu, Ling Zhao, Lesley Pek Wee Land, Wenli Li
{"title":"How Users' Personality Traits Predict Sentiment Tendencies of User-Generated Content in Social Media: A Mixed Method of Configuration Analysis and Machine Learning","authors":"Yongqing Yang, Jianyue Xu, Ling Zhao, Lesley Pek Wee Land, Wenli Li","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13000","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jopy.13000","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Social media content created by users with different personality traits presents various sentiment tendencies, easily leading to irrational public opinion. This study aims to explore the relationships between users' personality traits and sentiment tendencies of user-generated content (UGC).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We crawled 18,686 tweets of 1, 215 users from Twitter to figure out the relationships between personality traits and sentiment tendencies. This study utilizes Essays and Sentiment datasets to train machine learning models for the identification of personality traits and sentiment tendencies and then explores the configuration effect of personality traits on sentiment tendency via crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Result</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The findings suggest that (1) one-dimensional personality trait is not a necessary condition for the sentiment tendencies of UGC. (2) There are multiple equivalent configurations that lead to the sentiment tendencies of UGC.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The study suggests that the sentiment tendencies pattern of UGC can be discovered via the configurations of various dimensions of personality traits.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":"93 5","pages":"1175-1188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142847989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empathy to Creativity: The Associations Between Empathy and Everyday Creativity.","authors":"Bijie Tie, Wenjing Yang, Tengbin Huo, Yixin Gao, Xiongjian Yang, Dingyue Tian, Matthew Pelowski, Jiang Qiu","doi":"10.1111/jopy.13002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Everyday creativity is fundamental to human existence and improved well-being. Beyond recent attention regarding how contextual, lifestyle, personality, and neurobiological differences might foster everyday creativity, empathy may also constitute an intriguing connection. However, this potential relationship has not yet been systematically assessed.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Study 1 used multiple psychometric instruments to examine the levels of emotional and cognitive empathies and everyday creativity among different samples (n = 809). Study 2 used a cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) to examine longitudinal behavioral data (n = 653 at T1, n = 413 at T2) to determine how cognitive empathy might predict everyday creativity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Study 1 found that cognitive but not affective empathy exhibited a significant positive correlation with everyday creativity and domain-specific creative behaviors. Study 2 also reported a positive correlation between cognitive empathy, overall creative achievement, and certain domain-specific creative achievements. Cognitive empathy was linked to greater involvement in everyday creativity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>To our knowledge, these studies are the first to demonstrate a robust relationship between cognitive empathy and everyday creativity across different samples, measures, and longitudinal data, providing evidence of a nuanced relationship between cognitive empathy and creative achievement. Future studies should explore how creativity or empathy may foster empathic/creative development.</p>","PeriodicalId":48421,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Personality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142847974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}