Who in the world is trying to change their personality traits? Volitional personality change among college students in six continents.

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 1140-1156
Author(s):  
Erica Baranski ◽  
◽  
Gwendolyn Gardiner ◽  
Daniel Lee ◽  
David C. Funder
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
The World

Personality change and environmental concerns

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher James Hopwood ◽  
Ted Schwaba ◽  
Wiebke Bleidorn
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
German Population ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Sustainable Behavior ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

Personal concerns about climate change and the environment are a powerful motivator of sustainable behavior. People’s level of concern varies as a function of a variety of social and individual factors. Using data from 58,748 participants from a nationally representative German sample, we tested preregistered hypotheses about factors that impact concerns about the environment over time. We found that environmental concerns increased modestly from 2009-2017 in the German population. However, individuals in middle adulthood tended to be more concerned and showed more consistent increases in concern over time than younger or older people. Consistent with previous research, Big Five personality traits were correlated with environmental concerns. We present novel evidence that increases in concern were related to increases in the personality traits neuroticism and openness to experience. Indeed, changes in openness explained roughly 50% of the variance in changes in environmental concerns. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the individual level factors associated with changes in environmental concerns over time, towards the promotion of more sustainable behavior at the individual level.

The Development of Horticulture Software on Landscape Plants

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 552a-552
Author(s):  
Gary J. Kling
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Product Development ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Landscape Plants ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Formats ◽  
Current Stage ◽  
Made In

This presentation will cover some of the major decisions that were made in the development and modification of software to provide horticultural resources for college students and members of the industry. Technological changes have moved the production from video-disc technology to server-based digital formats, CD-ROM, and the World Wide Web. Each of these changes results in a different product suited to different audiences. The current stage of product development will be presented.

An Investigation of Taiwanese College Students’ Personality Traits and Self-worth

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1593-1613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Hui Wang ◽  
Hsiang-Ting Chen ◽  
Zuway-R Hong ◽  
Larry D. Yore
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Self Worth

The Relationship Between Virtues and Personality Traits of Chinese College Students

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1379-1385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shou-Kuan Mu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Psychological Concept ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The Relationship

Many researchers agree that virtue is an important psychological concept in contemporary psychology. The main purpose in this study was to investigate the relationship between virtues and the personality traits of college students in mainland China. Participants (N = 426) completed the Chinese Virtue Adjectives Rating Scale (CVARS; Mu, 2007) and the Chinese 16PF (Zhu & Dai, 1988). The results indicated that the 16 personality factors most closely related to the virtue factors were emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule-consciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness, apprehension, self-reliance, perfectionism, and tension. Second-order factors of the 16PF most strongly related to the virtue factors were anxiety, extraversion, tough-mindedness, and independence.

Premorbid Personality Traits in Alzheimer's Disease: Do They Predispose to Noncognitive Behavioral Symptoms?

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Meins ◽  
Andrea Frey ◽  
Rüdiger Thiesemann
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Statistical Control ◽  
Frustration Tolerance ◽  
Premorbid Personality ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Noncognitive Symptoms ◽  
Low Frustration Tolerance

The purpose of this study was to examine whether premorbid personality traits predispose to noncognitive symptoms in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The Munich Personality Test was used to evaluate caregivers' perception of personality prior to symptom onset in 56 outpatients with probable AD. Caregivers also completed the “mood” and “disturbed behavior” scales of the Nurses' Observation Scale for Geriatric Patients. A neuropsychiatrist rated depressive symptoms on the Cornell Scale for Depression and the occurrence of personality change in four domains according to ICD-10. Under statistical control of confounding variables, results showed a moderate association between (high) premorbid neuroticism, subsequent troublesome behavior, and personality change, on the one hand, and (low) frustration tolerance and depression, on the other. Premorbid personality traits may indeed predispose to subsequent noncognitive symptoms in AD.

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