The impact of state negative affects on self-reported personality measures

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malissa A. Clark ◽  
Alicia Marie Gramzow ◽  
Angela K. Pratt ◽  
James M. LeBreton
Keyword(s):  
Personality Measures ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
The Impact

Effects of Targeted Self-Coaching on Applicant Distortion of Personality Measures

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Sliter ◽  
Neil D. Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Lie Detection ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Personality Measures ◽  
Personality Tests ◽  
The Impact

The present study evaluated the impact of reading self-coaching book excerpts on success at faking a personality test. Participants (N = 207) completed an initial honest personality assessment and a subsequent assessment with faking instructions under one of the following self-coaching conditions: no coaching, chapters from a commercial book on how to fake preemployment personality scales, and personality coaching plus a chapter on avoiding lie-detection scales. Results showed that those receiving coaching materials had greater success in raising their personality scores, primarily on the traits that had been targeted in the chapters. In addition, those who read the chapter on avoiding lie-detection scales scored significantly lower on a popular impression management scale while simultaneously increasing their personality scores. Implications for the use of personality tests in personnel selection are discussed.

scholarly journals Framing the text: understanding emotional barriers to academic reading

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Emma Kimberley ◽  
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Mark Thursby ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Affect Theory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Academic Reading ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Text Understanding ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Academic Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

When students arrive at university there is an expectation that they come already equipped with the skills they need to read academic texts. In contrast, many students have low confidence in their ability to read challenging texts, often experiencing this as a barrier to engaging with academic practices. Recent research has identified the importance of affect in the university context, exploring the impact of emotions around academic practices such as critical thinking and interpreting feedback, but has not looked specifically at reading as one such key practice. This paper draws on this research and reads it alongside data gathered from questionnaires and focus groups conducted with one group of first-year undergraduates. We found that students have a complex relationship with reading for academic study, and that many experience significant negative affects and self-perceptions in relation to their academic reading tasks. We explore some of these encounters, engaging the student voice and using affect theory to unpack some first experiences of reading in higher education.

Core Psychodynamic Factors in PTSD

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Frederic N. Busch ◽  
Barbara L. Milrod ◽  
Cory K. Chen ◽  
Meriamne B. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Narrative Coherence ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Associated Symptoms ◽  
Intrapsychic Conflicts ◽  
The Impact

After briefly reviewing the psychoanalytic view of mental life, including the influence of the unconscious on mental life and symptoms, this chapter describes the impact of trauma from the psychodynamic viewpoint. Disruptions in narrative coherence, repetition and re-experiencing, intrapsychic conflicts, dissociation, defenses, intense negative affects, and disruptions in trust that result from trauma are described. Clinical examples are presented to illuminate these factors. In addition, the relevance of the patient’s pretrauma history, their attachment style and mentalization skills, and the specific nature of traumatic experience on the impact of trauma and associated symptoms is elaborated.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable University Sports: Analysis of Physical Activity and Positive and Negative Affects in Athletes

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6095
Author(s):  
Daniel Duclos-Bastías ◽  
Felipe Vallejo-Reyes ◽  
Frano Giakoni-Ramírez ◽  
David Parra-Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Physical Activity Levels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
University Athletes ◽  
Positive And Negative Affects

The suspension of university activities due to the pandemic affected training and sports competitions. However, some universities adapted online education, allowing students to carry out their activities without being infected by the virus. The aim of this study was to find out the impact of the pandemic on physical activity levels and the positive and negative effects on Chilean university athletes. The information was obtained by applying the PANAS scale and demographic and physical activity variables were also measured. The sample of Chilean university athletes (n = 254) were aged between 18 and 31 years (M = 22.17; SD = 2.76). This study led to the conclusion that maintaining the frequency of physical training during the pandemic was associated with a preservation in the levels of Positive Affect and Negative Affect compared to the non-pandemic period. Thus, physical activity training was protective of emotional well-being and, therefore, of mental health.

scholarly journals The organization of a mental health phoneline in Buenos Aires City: its role to minimize the impact of mental health services disruption amidst COVID-19 pandemic

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S307-S308
Author(s):  
David Alejandro Gutnisky ◽  
Humberto Persano ◽  
Victoria Kugler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Crisis Resolution ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
The Impact

AimsThe main concern of this research is to evaluate the performance of a new Mental Health Phoneline Programme, developed to facilitate access to Mental Health Services and to lower the impact of Mental Health Services disruption due to COVID-19 lockdown. Crisis resolution, new referrals, and patients’ reconnection with their former Mental Health Teams were recorded.MethodThe data obtained from 11,406 calls made to the Mental Health Phone Line from April 14th, 2020 to March 1st, 2021 were analysed. Crisis resolutions, new referrals, and patients’ reconnection with their former Mental Health Teams were calculated.ResultOf the 11,406 calls registered, 72.2% of them were made by women. Mean age was 50.13 years, SD 18.51; median: 50. There was a significant difference between gender regarding age (males: mean 43.91 years, SD 18.88; females: mean 52.48 years, SD: 15.9), being the males who used the phoneline younger (t:23.75; p <0.000). 54.2 % of the users lived with a significant other. Crisis resolution represented 12.6 % of the sample, request for information 34.4%, psychosocial interventions 47.6% and, reconnection with former Mental Health Team 4.3%. New referrals for treatment were 2.9% of the total calls. Two main negative affects the74.2% of the total affect reported. Anxiety-Fear accounts for 49.3% of reported feelings and depression a 24.9 %.Conclusion

scholarly journals The Impact of Instant Messaging Software on Work Stress and Work and Family conflict and Pressure

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Impact

Work and family life are the most important part of life for men and women in today’s workplace. The individuals are required to take the responsibilities of work and family roles. However, the development and popularization of information technology results in the time of division between work and family life becomes blurred trend. The message and information of work dumps to us by ubiquitious transmission technique everywhere and everytime even afterwork. Information technology not only increases efficency of work, but also induces pressure. It really interrups our leisure time and bothers our life. This study will examine the impact of work stress, job conflict and stress effects, and further explore the effect of communication with the instant messaging software using intelligent mobile devices to work with job stress and workplace conflicts. This study uses a web-based questionnaire to collect sample data and send a questionnaire through community sites, instant messaging tools, and e-mail. This study is intended to pressure theory and work-family conflict model, coupled with the technical pressure to do the relevant factors. The data analysis method was used to model the structural equation, and SPSS and Smart PLS were used as the main statistical analysis tools to verify the causal relationship between the variables in the research model. The results are as follows: (1)The work pressure will “positive” affect the work-family conflict. (2)There is no positive correlation between work load and work-family conflict. (3)Scientific and technological violations will “positive” affect the work-family conflict. (4)There is no positive correlation between the overloading of science and technology and Work-family conflict. (5)Work-family conflict “negative” affects job satisfaction. (6)Work-family conflict “negative” affects family satisfaction. (7)Work-family conflict will be “negative” affect the work of physical and mental health.

scholarly journals Wayfinding in Virtual Reality Serious Game: An Exploratory Study in the Context of User Perceived Experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 7822
Author(s):  
Shafaq Irshad ◽  
Andrew Perkis ◽  
Waleed Azam
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Perceived Experiences ◽  
Emergency Scenarios ◽  
The Impact

Extended reality (XR) technologies such as virtual reality (VR) provide a promising alternative for training users through serious games (SGs). VR SGs allow people to train in emergency scenarios and improve their likelihood of survival in high-risk situations. Studies have shown that incorporating design elements such as wayfinding cues enhances the spatial knowledge of users in VR. However, the impact of these wayfinding cues on users’ psychological and psychometric behaviors needs thorough investigation. An SG was designed to investigate wayfinding cues’ psychological and psychometric effects on user-perceived experiences in an immersive VR environment. Thirty-nine participants experienced three variants of the VR SG using Oculus Rift- S. Participants in the control condition were exposed to the VR with no wayfinding cues, and the experimental groups were exposed to VR with static and dynamic wayfinding cues. Results showed that VR SG with wayfinding cues induced less tension, challenge, and negative affects in users’ overall perceived experience. Similarly higher positive affects were observed for the experimental groups with wayfinding cues. It was interesting to observe that there were no significant effects of wayfinding on competence, flow, and immersion; however, heart rate was significantly high in the control group. These findings suggest that wayfinding cues can promote the users perceived quality of experience in the VR.

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