Association between cerebral glutamate and human behaviour: The sensation seeking personality trait

Abstract The current study aims to examine the influence of personality traits (alternative Zuckerman model) and driving anger in the explanation of risky driving style in individuals convicted for road safety offences (N = 245), using as a basis an adaptation of the context-mediated model. This is a transversal, descriptive study designed to be implemented by means of surveys, in which took part 245 men convicted of road safety offences from five prisons in Galicia (a region in northwestern Spain) took part. The average age of the participants was 38.73 years (Sx-9.61), with a range between 18 and 64 years. All participants had three or more years of driving experience. Our data shows that the Impulsive-Sensation Seeking (Imp-SS) personality trait had a direct and positive effect on dangerous driving, while the Activity (Act) trait had a direct but negative effect. The Aggression-Hostility (Agg-Host) trait, in turn, influenced the risky driving style, but not directly, but by raising driving anger levels, so it acted as a powerful mediator between the Aggression-Hostility (Agg-Hos) trait and the risky driving style. In general, our research partially replicates and expands previous findings regarding the model used, the aggression-hostility personality trait (Agg-Host) was placed in the distal context, driving anger in the proximal context, while age and personality traits Activity (Act) and Impulsive-Sensation Seeking (Imp-SS) were direct predictors. The results of this study may have practical implications for the detection and rehabilitation of offenders and penalties for road safety offences.

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Sensation Seeking as a Musical Interest Target Variable: How a Personality Trait can predict Musical Activity

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e509412012-001 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Joao P. Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Personality Trait ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Target Variable ◽

Musical Activity ◽

Interest Target

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Exploring the role of personality traits in followee recommendation

Online Information Review ◽

10.1108/oir-04-2015-0107 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 39 (6) ◽

pp. 812-830 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Antonela Tommasel ◽

Alejandro Corbellini ◽

Daniela Godoy ◽

Silvia Schiaffino

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Personality Trait ◽

Factor Model ◽

Selection Process ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Human Behaviour ◽

Personality Dimension ◽

Content Type ◽

The Impact

Purpose – Followee recommendation is a problem rapidly gaining importance in Twitter as well as in other micro-blogging communities. To find interesting users to follow, most recommendation systems leverage different factors such as graph topology or user-generated content, among others. Those systems mostly disregard, however, the effect of psychological characteristics, such as personality, over the followee selection process. As personality is considered one of the primary factors that influence human behaviour, the purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the impact of personality traits on followee selection. Design/methodology/approach – The authors performed a data analysis comparing the similarity among Twitter users and their followees regarding personality traits. The authors analysed three different similarity measures. First, the authors computed an overall similarity considering the five personality traits or dimensions of the Five-Factor model as a whole. Second, the authors computed the dimension-to-dimension similarity considering each individual personality trait independently of each other. Third, the authors computed a cross-dimension similarity considering each personality dimension in relation to the others. Findings – This study showed that personality should be considered as a distinctive factor in the process of followee selection. However, personality dimensions should not be analysed as a whole as the overall personality similarity might not accurately assess the actual matching between individuals. Instead, the performed data analysis showed the existence of relations among the individual dimensions. Thus, the importance of considering each personality trait with respect to others is stated. Originality/value – This study is among the firsts to study the impact of personality, one of the primary factors that influence human behaviour and social relationships, in the selection of followees in micro-blogging communities.

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Sensation-seeking, life events and depression

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.178.6.549 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 178 (6) ◽

pp. 549-552 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Anne Farmer ◽

Kate Redman ◽

Tanya Harris ◽

Arshad Mahmood ◽

Stephanie Sadler ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Life Events ◽

Personality Trait ◽

Genetic Risk ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Genetic Risk Factors ◽

Adverse Life Events ◽

Control Subjects ◽

Healthy Control ◽

The Relationship

BackgroundThe relationship between adversity and genetic risk factors in depression could be mediated by familial ‘hazard prone’ traits, as reflected in high levels of sensation-seeking.AimsTo examine whether high sensation-seeking scores are associated with more adverse life events resulting in depression.MethodIn a sib-pair design, 108 probands with depression and their siblings and 105 healthy control subjects and their siblings were compared for psychopathology, life events and scores on the Sensation-Seeking Questionnaire (SSQ).ResultsThe SSQ scores were correlated negatively with depression, were familial and were correlated positively with less severe events, but not the severe events typically associated with depressive onsets.ConclusionsThe SSQ measures a familial personality trait and depression is associated with lower scores. Although high sensation-seeking is associated with a higher rate of life events, these carry little threat.

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La personalidad del turista como criterio de segmentación de destinos de sol y playa: una aplicación al destino Gran Canaria

Cuadernos de Turismo ◽

10.6018/turismo.44.404831 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 247-275

Author(s):

Noelia Medina-Ojeda ◽

Josefa D. Martín-Santana ◽

Diego R. Medina-Muñoz

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Big Five ◽

Market Segmentation ◽

Personality Trait ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Gran Canaria ◽

Big 5

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la influencia de las características sociodemográficas en la personalidad del turista en aras de justificar su potencial como criterio de segmentación de mercados turísticos de sol y playa. Para medir la personalidad se utilizó el método BIG FIVE y el rasgo de personalidad denominado búsqueda de sensaciones, aplicados a una muestra de 450 turistas de Gran Canaria (España). Los resultados muestran que las características sociodemográficas influyen en la personalidad de los turistas, siendo idónea, por tanto, como criterio de segmentación de mercados. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of socio-demographic characteristics on tourist personality in order to be used as segmentation criteria for sun and beaches tourists. The method used to measure personality is the “Big 5” and the personality trait referred to as sensation seeking. A sample of 450 tourists was carried out on Gran Canaria (Spain). According to the results, socio-demographic characteristics influence on tourist personality traits, and therefore they could be of interest as a tourist market segmentation criteria.

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