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The big five personality traits influencing habitual Facebook usage, life satisfaction and psychological well-being of Generation Y students

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2020
This research determined five big personality traits that influenced South African Generation Y students’ habitual use of Facebook, life satisfaction and psychological well-being.
Eugine T. Maziriri
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The interactive effect of neuroticism and extraversion on the daily variability of affective states

Journal of Research in Personality, 2019
The interaction between neuroticism and extraversion is thought to predict affective variability. In this study, neuroticism and extraversion were assessed with questionnaires, and affects were measured by experience sampling, with five daily assessments
B. Dauvier, J. Pavani, S. Le Vigouroux, Jean-Luc Kop, A. Congard   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sometimes Hot, Sometimes Not: The Relations Between Selected Situational Vocational Interests and Situation Perception

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Vocational interests are traditionally conceived as stable preferences for different activities. However, recent theorizing suggests their intraindividual variability. This preregistered experience sampling study examined intraindividual variation in selected vocational interests states and related situation and person factors (N = 237 ...
Lena Roemer, Kai T. Horstmann, Matthias Ziegler, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist   +3 more
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Extraversion and Reward-Processing: Consolidating Evidence from an Electroencephalographic Index of Reward-Prediction-Error.

Biological Psychology, 2019
Trait extraversion has been theorized to emerge from functioning of the dopaminergic reward system. Recent evidence for this view shows that extraversion modulates the scalp-recorded Reward Positivity, a putative marker of dopaminergic signaling of ...
L. Smillie, Hayley K. Jach, D. M. Hughes, Jan Wacker, A. Cooper, A. Pickering   +5 more
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On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and Its Relation With Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N 
S. Weiss, D. Steger, Y. Kaur, A. Hildebrandt, U. Schroeders, O. Wilhelm, Christian Kandler   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Novelty seeking is linked to openness and extraversion, and can lead to greater creative performance.

Journal of Personality, 2018
OBJECTIVE Novelty seeking (the tendency to explore things novel and unfamiliar) has been extensively researched in the clinical and health domains, but its effects on creative performance are largely unknown.
M. Gocłowska, S. Ritter, A. Elliot, M. Baas   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Sojourn Effects on Personality Trait Changes Last? A Five‐Year Longitudinal Study

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study examined sojourners' long‐term personality trait changes over five years, extending previous research on immediate sojourn effects. A sample of German students (N = 1095) was surveyed thrice (T1–T3) over the course of an academic year.
Julia Richter, Julia Zimmermann, Franz J. Neyer, Christian Kandler, Mitja Back   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of Problematic Smartphone Use: An Examination of the Integrative Pathways Model and the Role of Age, Gender, Impulsiveness, Excessive Reassurance Seeking, Extraversion, and Depression

Behavioral Science, 2018
Background: The progression of mobile phone technology has led to the development of multi-functional smartphones providing access to features such as social media, e-mail, and videos alongside the basic functions of a mobile phone. Increasing amounts of
L. Mitchell, Zaheer Hussain
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Managerial Awareness to Behavior in the Circular Economy: The Role of Personality Traits and Organizational Support

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As businesses are increasingly integrating circular economy (CE) principles to promote concrete sustainability actions, understanding which managerial aspects may align with this change becomes paramount. Employing a conceptual framework based on Cognitive‐Affective Personality System (CAPS) and Organizational Support theories, this study ...
Fiorenza Meucci, Flavio Spagnuolo, Annamaria Zampella, Marco Maffei   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source