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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Personality can be described at different levels of abstraction. Whereas the Big Five domains are the dominant level of analysis, several researchers have called for more fine‐grained approaches, such as facet‐level analysis. Personality facets allow more comprehensive descriptions, more accurate predictions of outcomes, and a better ...
Daniel Danner +4 more
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract 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.
Eva Asselmann +2 more
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Developing and validating a second language pragmatics aptitude test
Cogent Education, 2019 The present study aimed at developing a second language pragmatic aptitude test. To do so, the relevant literature was consulted, different components contributing to pragmatics aptitude were identified and tabulated and test items were developed for ...
Nasrin Sedaghatgoftar +3 more
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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test
European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect).
Julius Frankenbach +4 more
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet +2 more
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Revista da Educação Física, 2008 The aim of this study is to verify the relationship between the strength of nervous system excitement and the personality trace – extroversion / introversion. From a sample of 240 Physical Education university students, 121 were male and 119 female.
Maria Cristina Chimelo Paim +1 more
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Perceived susceptibility to negative consequences of risky sexual behavior among college students [PDF]
, 2013 Research has shown that college students understand the risks associated with risky sexual behavior, but make up to close to 50% of new STI cases every year.
Shaw, Jeneice L.
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TAPER: query-aware, partition-enhancement for large, heterogenous, graphs
, 2016 Graph partitioning has long been seen as a viable approach to address Graph DBMS scalability. A partitioning, however, may introduce extra query processing latency unless it is sensitive to a specific query workload, and optimised to minimise inter ...
Firth, Hugo, Missier, Paolo
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng +4 more
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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 +3 more
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