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On energy, personality, and health: subjective vitality as a dynamic reflection of well-being.

Journal of Personality, 1997
In this article, we examine subjective vitality, a positive feeling of aliveness and energy, in six studies. Subjective vitality is hypothesized to reflect organismic well-being and thus should covary with both psychological and somatic factors that ...
Richard M. Ryan, Christina M. Frederick
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The happy personality: a meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being.

Psychological bulletin, 1998
This meta-analysis used 9 literature search strategies to examine 137 distinct personality constructs as correlates of subjective well-being (SWB). Personality was found to be equally predictive of life satisfaction, happiness, and positive affect, but ...
Kristina M. Deneve, H. Cooper
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Gender differences in personality traits across cultures: robust and surprising findings.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001
Secondary analyses of Revised NEO Personality Inventory data from 26 cultures (N = 23,031) suggest that gender differences are small relative to individual variation within genders; differences are replicated across cultures for both college-age and ...
P. Costa, A. Terracciano, R. McCrae
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The mini-IPIP scales: tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five factors of personality.

Psychological Assessment, 2006
The Mini-IPIP, a 20-item short form of the 50-item International Personality Item Pool-Five-Factor Model measure (Goldberg, 1999), was developed and validated across five studies.
B. Donnellan, F. Oswald, Brendan M. Baird, Richard E. Lucas   +3 more
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Understanding persons as persons

The Psychiatric Quarterly, 1974
American psychiatry has tended to divide into two camps—one seeking to understand persons as bodies, and the other seeking to understand them in terms of a mechanistic mental life. Both these approaches, while rewarding in certain respects, fail in the quest of understanding persons as persons.
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The role of factor analysis in the development and evaluation of personality scales

, 1986
The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of factor analysis in developing and evaluating personality scales that measure limited domain constructs The approach advocated follows from several assumptions that a single scale ought to measure ...
S. Briggs, J. Cheek
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Individualism-collectivism and personality.

Journal of Personality, 2001
This paper provides a review of the main findings concerning the relationship between the cultural syndromes of individualism and collectivism and personality.
H. Triandis
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Personality and Personality Disorders

2018
Personality is a complex construct that is closely related to the subjective experiences between internal world and external reality, a sense of subjectivity that is referred to the concept of self in psychiatry and psychodynamic literature.
Scalabrini, Andrea, Mucci, Clara, Northoff, Georg   +2 more
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Personality development: stability and change.

Annual Review of Psychology, 2005
In this review, we evaluate four topics in the study of personality development where discernible progress has been made since 1995 (the last time the area of personality development was reviewed in this series).
A. Caspi, B. Roberts, Rebecca L Shiner
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Explorations in Personality

, 2007
Foreword by Dan P. McAdams 1. Introduction 2. Proposals for a Theory of Personality 3. Variables of Personality 4. Judgements of Personality 5. The Genetical Investigation of Personality: Childhood Events 6. Procedures 7.
H. Murray, D. McAdams
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