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

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.

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

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.2277 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (6) ◽

pp. 1060-1072 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Leon P. Wendt ◽

Aidan G.C. Wright ◽

Paul A. Pilkonis ◽

William C. Woods ◽

Jaap J.A. Denissen ◽

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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

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

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.2269 ◽

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

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

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.2186 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 176-196 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

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

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

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.2259 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 301-321 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Eileen K. Graham ◽

Sara J. Weston ◽

Denis Gerstorf ◽

Tomiko B. Yoneda ◽

Tom Booth ◽

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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

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Intelligence and Personality

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000311 ◽

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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Personality of Clown Doctors

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000187 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 49-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Alberto Dionigi

Keyword(s):

General Population ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Big Five ◽

Normal Population ◽

Big Five Personality Traits ◽

Published Data ◽

Big Five Personality

Abstract. In recent years, both professional and volunteer clowns have become familiar in health settings. The clown represents a peculiar humorist’s character, strictly associated with the performer’s own personality. In this study, the Big Five personality traits (BFI) of 155 Italian clown doctors (130 volunteers and 25 professionals) were compared to published data for the normal population. This study highlighted specific differences between clown doctors and the general population: Clown doctors showed higher agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, and extraversion, as well as lower neuroticism compared to other people. Moreover, specific differences emerged comparing volunteers and professionals: Professional clowns showed significantly lower in agreeableness compared to their unpaid colleagues. The results are also discussed with reference to previous studies conducted on groups of humorists. Clowns’ personalities showed some peculiarities that can help to explain the facility for their performances in the health setting and that are different than those of other groups of humorists.

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