scholarly journals Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and after Becoming a Parent

2020 ◽  
pp. per.2269
Author(s):  
Eva Asselmann ◽  
Jule Specht
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After

In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea. Here, we used data from a nationally representative household panel study from Germany ( N = 19 875) to examine whether becoming a parent relates to personality maturation. Whether a child was born was assessed yearly, and the Big Five personality traits were measured in four waves from 2005 to 2017. We used multilevel analyses to investigate whether personality differs between individuals who will or will not become parents, whether personality differs before and after becoming a parent, and whether these effects vary by gender, age, and living status. In sum, our findings revealed that less open and more extraverted individuals were more likely to start a family, and openness and extraversion both decreased after the transition to parenthood. Some other effects varied by gender, age, and living status. Taken together, our findings suggest that the Big Five personality traits differ before and across the transition to parenthood and that these differences especially apply to openness and extraversion. © 2020 The Authors. European Journal of Personality published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals Can Facebook likes predict the purchase probability of electricity storage systems?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Poier
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Control Sample ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Electricity Storage ◽  
Combining Data ◽  
User Groups

AbstractThis study among owners of photovoltaic systems investigates whether users' Big Five personality traits derived from their Facebook likes contribute to whether or not they adopt an electricity storage. It is based on the finding that the digital footprint, especially the Facebook likes, can in part predict the personality of users better than friends and family. The survey was conducted among 159 Facebook users in Germany who owned a photovoltaic system. For comparison, a control sample with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel with 425 photovoltaic owners among 7286 individuals was used. The results show that, for extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, the mean scores could be sufficiently predicted. However, a positive correlation could only be detected for extraversion. The comparison of the user groups could not provide satisfying results. None of the Big Five personality traits could be used to distinguish the two user groups from each other. Although the results did not support the hypotheses, this study offers insights into the possibilities of combining data mining, personality psychology, and consumer research.

scholarly journals A model of the relationships between the Big Five personality traits and the motivations to deliver word-of-mouth online

Psihologija ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Anastasiei ◽  
Nicoleta Dospinescu
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
Negative Feelings

The goal of this research is to establish the relationships between the Big Five personality traits ? Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness ? and the motivations to deliver electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) in the social media. The research method was based on a survey administered to 262 subjects, mostly students and young professionals. The personality traits that are most related to eWOM are Extraversion (that influences the need for social appreciation and Positive self-enhancement) and Openness to experience (that determines the concern for others and the desire to help good companies). Conscientiousness has a negative relationship with the tendency to Vent negative feelings about a bad buy, while Neuroticism has a slight influence on the motivation to get Social benefits and Self-enhancement. Knowing the prevalent personality traits and motivations of the eWOM transmitters, the company communication strategist can figure out the most proper ways to approach them. This paper is one of the few that throughly investigates the relationship between personality traits and the intrinsic motivations to write online reviews about companies and brands.

scholarly journals Indicators of Affect Dynamics: Structure, Reliability, and Personality Correlates

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1060-1072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon P. Wendt ◽  
Aidan G.C. Wright ◽  
Paul A. Pilkonis ◽  
William C. Woods ◽  
Jaap J.A. Denissen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Total N ◽  
Structure Reliability ◽  
Complex Indicators ◽  
Affect Dynamics

Researchers are increasingly interested in the affect dynamics of individuals for describing and explaining personality and psychopathology. Recently, the incremental validity of more complex indicators of affect dynamics (IADs; e.g. autoregression) has been called into question (Dejonckheere et al., 2019), with evidence accumulating that these might convey little unique information beyond mean level and general variability of emotions. Our study extends the evidence for the construct validity of IADs by investigating their redundancy and uniqueness, split–half reliability based on indices from odd–numbered and even–numbered days, and association with big five personality traits. We used three diverse samples that assessed daily and momentary emotions, including community participants, individuals with personality pathology, and their significant others (total N = 1192, total number of occasions = 51 278). Mean and variability of affects had high reliability and distinct nomological patterns to big five personality traits. In contrast, more complex IADs exhibited substantial redundancies with mean level and general variability of emotions. When partialing out these redundancies by using residual variables, some of the more complex IADs had acceptable reliability, but only a few of these showed incremental associations with big five personality traits, indicating that IADs have limited validity using the current assessment practices. © 2020 The Authors. European Journal of Personality published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology

Political Protest and Personality Traits: A Neglected Link

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Dieter Opp ◽  
Hermann Brandstätter
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Personal Influence ◽  
Social Incentives

We examine the extent to which personality traits and variables based on the theory of collective action (i.e., incentives) can explain protest participation. We use the Big Five personality traits, measured by a list of bipolar adjectives: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Incentives are political discontent and perceived personal influence, perceived obligation to protest and social incentives (i.e., integration in protest encouraging social networks). We hypothesize that personality traits have an effect on incentives and, together with incentives, on protest behavior. We test our hypotheses with a two-wave panel study, conducted in Leipzig (East Germany), where a total of 438 persons were interviewed in 1993 and 1996. Major findings are that personality traits have only weak effects on protest, compared to the variables of the theory of collective action, and that personality traits have various effects on the independent variables (i.e., the incentives) of the theory of collective action.

Effects of personality and social situation on representational gesture production

Gesture ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Autumn B. Hostetter ◽  
Andrea L. Potthoff
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Visibility Condition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gesture Production

The present study investigated the correlation between speakers’ self-reported Big Five personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience) and their representational gesture production. In addition, possible interactions between the speakers’ personality traits and the social situation, specifically whether the gestures could be seen by the listener or not, were examined. We found that extraversion and neuroticism both positively correlated with representational gesture production. We also found an interaction between extraversion and visibility condition. While speakers produce more gestures when their audience can see them than when their audience cannot, this difference is smaller for speakers who report high levels of extraversion than it is for other speakers. The findings suggest that both the personality of the speaker as well as aspects of the social situation are important contributors to how frequently speakers gesture.

scholarly journals School or Work? The Choice May Change Your Personality

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessika Golle ◽  
Norman Rose ◽  
Richard Göllner ◽  
Marion Spengler ◽  
Gundula Stoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Academic Track ◽  
The Social ◽  
Longitudinal Study Design

According to the social-investment principle, entering new environments is associated with new social roles that influence people’s behaviors. In this study, we examined whether young adults’ personality development is differentially related to their choice of either an academic or a vocational pathway (i.e., entering an academic-track school or beginning vocational training). The personality constructs of interest were Big Five personality traits and vocational-interest orientations. We used a longitudinal study design and propensity-score matching to create comparable groups before they entered one of the pathways and then tested the differences between these groups 6 years later. We expected the vocational pathway to reinforce more mature behavior and curtail investigative interest. Results indicated that choosing the vocational compared with the academic pathway was associated with higher conscientiousness and less interest in investigative, social, and enterprising activities.

Multidimensional Perfectionism and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Meta–Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Stricker ◽  
Susanne Buecker ◽  
Michael Schneider ◽  
Franzis Preckel
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Nomological Network ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Equation Modelling

Multidimensional perfectionism includes the dimensions perfectionistic concerns and perfectionistic strivings. Many studies have investigated the nomological network of multidimensional perfectionism by relating perfectionistic concerns and perfectionistic strivings to the Big Five personality traits. Results from these studies were largely inconsistent. In the present study, we meta–analytically integrated 672 effect sizes from 72 samples ( N = 21 573) describing relations between multidimensional perfectionism and the Big Five personality traits. Perfectionistic concerns correlated positively with Neuroticism ( r = 0.383) and negatively with Extraversion ( r = −0.198), Agreeableness ( r = −0.198), Conscientiousness ( r = −0.111), and Openness ( r = −0.087). Perfectionistic strivings correlated positively with Conscientiousness ( r = 0.368), Openness ( r = 0.121), Neuroticism ( r = 0.090), and Extraversion ( r = 0.067) and were unrelated to Agreeableness ( r = 0.002). The measures of perfectionistic concerns and perfectionistic strivings moderated most of these relations. Meta–analytic structural equation modelling allowed controlling each perfectionism dimension for the respective other. This partialling increased all correlations with the exception of the previously positive correlation between perfectionistic strivings and Neuroticism, which ceased to be significant. The findings support the distinction between perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns and demonstrate how multidimensional perfectionism is situated in the context of broader personality traits. © 2019 European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen K. Graham ◽  
Sara J. Weston ◽  
Denis Gerstorf ◽  
Tomiko B. Yoneda ◽  
Tom Booth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Psychology

This study assessed change in self–reported Big Five personality traits. We conducted a coordinated integrative data analysis using data from 16 longitudinal samples, comprising a total sample of over 60 000 participants. We coordinated models across multiple datasets and fit identical multi–level growth models to assess and compare the extent of trait change over time. Quadratic change was assessed in a subset of samples with four or more measurement occasions. Across studies, the linear trajectory models revealed declines in conscientiousness, extraversion, and openness. Non–linear models suggested late–life increases in neuroticism. Meta–analytic summaries indicated that the fixed effects of personality change are somewhat heterogeneous and that the variability in trait change is partially explained by sample age, country of origin, and personality measurement method. We also found mixed evidence for predictors of change, specifically for sex and baseline age. This study demonstrates the importance of coordinated conceptual replications for accelerating the accumulation of robust and reliable findings in the lifespan developmental psychological sciences. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes and Personality Traits*

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Zumbuehl ◽  
Thomas Dohmen ◽  
Gerard Pfann
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Economic Preferences ◽  
Rich Information

Abstract We empirically investigate the link between parental involvement and shaping of the economic preferences, attitudes and personality traits of their children. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes, the Big Five personality traits and locus of control of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who are more involved in the upbringing of their children have children with more favourable attitudes and traits. These children rank higher in traits that further their success in life, and they are more similar to their parents in those attitudes, where the optimum level is more ambiguous.

Intelligence and Personality

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
Marc-André Bédard ◽  
Yann Le Corff
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Verbal Intelligence ◽  
Nonverbal Intelligence ◽  
French Canadian

Abstract. This replication and extension of DeYoung, Quilty, Peterson, and Gray’s (2014) study aimed to assess the unique variance of each of the 10 aspects of the Big Five personality traits ( DeYoung, Quilty, & Peterson, 2007 ) associated with intelligence and its dimensions. Personality aspects and intelligence were assessed in a sample of French-Canadian adults from real-life assessment settings ( n = 213). Results showed that the Intellect aspect was independently associated with g, verbal, and nonverbal intelligence while its counterpart Openness was independently related to verbal intelligence only, thus replicating the results of the original study. Independent associations were also found between Withdrawal, Industriousness and Assertiveness aspects and verbal intelligence, as well as between Withdrawal and Politeness aspects and nonverbal intelligence. Possible explanations for these associations are discussed.

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