Influence of the Big Five on Driving Frequency During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Our objective was to examine how the Big Five personality traits affected driving behavior during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data was collected online via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Chi-Squared Tests with bootstrapping revealed a significant pandemic effect on driving frequency with a moderate effect size. However, insignificant results of the Big Five were found relative to the weekly driving frequency. Simple Correspondence Analysis was used to examine patterns between the Big Five and driving frequency graphically. Individuals high in Agreeableness, Openness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism were more likely to drive less frequently and therefore comply with isolation guidelines. However, there were conflicting results in Neuroticism. Some of the High and Medium Low groups were grouped closely with lower driving frequencies. To explain this result, there may be a mediating or moderating factor that was not captured in this analysis, which requires more research to examine.

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The effect of big five personality factors on career barrier and career aspiration among college students majoring in secretarial studies : the moderate effect of academic self-efficacy

Journal ofAgricultural Education and Human Resource Development ◽

10.23840/agehrd.2015.47.1.49 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 49-78

Author(s):

윤필현

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Big Five ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Personality Factors ◽

Career Aspiration ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Moderate Effect ◽

Big Five Personality Factors ◽

Academic Self Efficacy

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A Cultural Comparison of the Facial Inference Process

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0501.072 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Janine K. Swiney ◽

Anthony J. Stahelski

Keyword(s):

Facial Expression ◽

Facial Expressions ◽

Big Five ◽

Mechanical Turk ◽

Social Perceptions ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Cultural Comparison ◽

Inference Process ◽

Self Assessment ◽

The Individual

The purpose of this study was to compare emotion and personality trait attributions to facial expression between American and Indian samples. Data were collected using Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Participants in this study were asked to correctly identify the emotion and make inferences from pictures of three different facial expressions (scowling, frowning, and smiling) of young white females and males in six photographs. Each picture was randomly presented for 10 seconds followed by four randomized questions about the individual in the picture. The first question asked participants to identify the emotion shown from a list of six emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise). The next three questions consisted of a) condensed sets of the Big Five personality traits, b) the three Self-Assessment Manikin dimensions (SAM), ands) various social perceptions. Smiling facial expressions were hypothesized to be inferred as happy and to have the following positive inferences in both cultures: attractive, not threatening, agreeable, extroverted, and pleasing to look at, positive, conscientious, and open-minded a “Halo Effect.” Scowling facial expressions were hypothesized to have the following attributions: anger, unattractive, threatening, excitable, close-minded, not pleasing to look at, bad, negative, dominant, disagreeable, and unconscientiously a “Horns Effect.” Frowning facial expressions were hypothesized to be perceived as: sad, unattractive, good, submissive, not threatening, not pleasing to look at, positive, and calm anin-between effect. Generally, results showed that both cultures attributed the hypothesized emotional and trait attributions to the six facial expressions for all four questions, except for the Indians on the scowling female facial expression across each of the four questions.

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Further Validity of the Japanese Version of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI-J)

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000145 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 236-244 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Atsushi Oshio ◽

Shingo Abe ◽

Pino Cutrone ◽

Samuel D. Gosling

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Content Validity ◽

Structural Equation ◽

English Language ◽

Full Range ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Japanese Version ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Big Five Personality

The Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003 ) is a widely used very brief measure of the Big Five personality dimensions. Oshio, Abe, and Cutrone (2012) have developed a Japanese version of the TIPI (TIPI-J), which demonstrated acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Until now, all studies examining the validity of the TIPI-J have been conducted in the Japanese language; this reliance on a single language raises concerns about the instrument’s content validity because the instrument could demonstrate reliability (e.g., retest) and some forms of validity (e.g., convergent) but still not capture the full range of the dimensions as originally conceptualized in English. Therefore, to test the content validity of the Japanese TIPI with respect to the original Big Five formulation, we examine the convergence between scores on the TIPI-J and scores on the English-language Big Five Inventory (i.e., the BFI-E), an instrument specifically designed to optimize Big Five content coverage. Two-hundred and twenty-eight Japanese undergraduate students, who were all learning English, completed the two instruments. The results of correlation analyses and structural equation modeling demonstrate the theorized congruence between the TIPI-J and the BFI-E, supporting the content validity of the TIPI-J.

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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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Using Principal Component Scores to Enhance the Validity and Reliability of Big Five Personality Measures

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000225 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 83-93

Author(s):

Jeffrey M. Cucina ◽

Nicholas L. Vasilopoulos ◽

Arwen H. DeCostanza

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Discriminant Validity ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Principal Component ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Scoring Method ◽

Five Factors ◽

Big Five Factors ◽

Component Scores

Abstract. Varimax rotated principal component scores (VRPCS) have previously been offered as a possible solution to the non-orthogonality of scores for the Big Five factors. However, few researchers have examined the reliability and validity of VRPCS. To address this gap, we use a lab study and a field study to investigate whether using VRPCS increase orthogonality, reliability, and criterion-related validity. Compared to the traditional unit-weighting scoring method, the use of VRPCS enhanced the reliability and discriminant validity of the Big Five factors, although there was little improvement in criterion-related validity. Results are discussed in terms of the benefit of using VRPCS instead of traditional unit-weighted sum scores.

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How Do People Share Their Positive Events?

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000212 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 250-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Cara A. Palmer ◽

Meagan A. Ramsey ◽

Jennifer N. Morey ◽

Amy L. Gentzler

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Big Five ◽

Well Being ◽

Big Five Personality Traits ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Positive Events ◽

Growing Body ◽

Sharing Patterns ◽

Practical Implications

Abstract. Research suggests that sharing positive events with others is beneficial for well-being, yet little is known about how positive events are shared with others and who is most likely to share their positive events. The current study expanded on previous research by investigating how positive events are shared and individual differences in how people share these events. Participants (N = 251) reported on their likelihood to share positive events in three ways: capitalizing (sharing with close others), bragging (sharing with someone who may become jealous or upset), and mass-sharing (sharing with many people at once using communication technology) across a range of positive scenarios. Using cluster analysis, five meaningful profiles of sharing patterns emerged. These profiles were associated with gender, Big Five personality traits, narcissism, and empathy. Individuals who tended to brag when they shared their positive events were more likely to be men, reported less agreeableness, less conscientiousness, and less empathy, whereas those who tended to brag and mass-share reported the highest levels of narcissism. These results have important theoretical and practical implications for the growing body of research on sharing positive events.

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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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