scholarly journals Associations of the Big Five and locus of control with problem gambling in a large Australian sample

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0253046
Author(s):  
Juliane M. von der Heiden ◽  
Boris Egloff
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Problem Gambling ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Gambling Behavior ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Gambling may range from being a recreational leisure activity to a behavioral addiction. A rising number of gamblers experience adverse consequences from gambling, termed problem gambling, which may become a challenge for the individual and society. With the present research, we aimed to investigate the correlates of problem gambling. We used a large sample of more than 12,500 individuals (46% male, Mage = 48, SDage = 18) from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey and analyzed sociodemographic and personality variables (Big Five, locus of control) as well as the extent of problem gambling. Findings showed that male sex and a lower level of education were related to problem gambling, but personality traits were predictive of problem gambling over and above sociodemographic variables. Specifically, a low level of emotional stability, an external locus of control, and, to a lesser extent, a low level of conscientiousness and a high level of extraversion were predictive of problem gambling, whereas openness and agreeableness were not. These results remained constant across various robustness analyses. Our findings reveal the importance of including personality traits when explaining gambling behavior.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and their outcomes: how personality, place, and sex of people play a role in the psychology of COVID-19 beliefs

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Brito-Costa ◽  
Peter K Jonason ◽  
Michele Tosi ◽  
Rui Antunes ◽  
Sofia Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Big Five Traits ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Facebook Advertising

Abstract Background There is considerable variation in people’s attitudes towards the COVID-19 pandemic. One way to understand why people differ in their attitudes is to examine how personality traits predict the degree to which people hold different attitudes. Methods We collected data (N = 1420) from Portugal and Spain using Facebook advertising. We measured the Dark Triad and Big Five traits, and negative affect, along with ad hoc items for religiousness, and attitudes towards and fear of COVID. Results Neuroticism and Negative affect was linked to various domains of insecurity or fear and provides insights into how personality predicts concerns and behaviors related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Religious people were less trusting in science, thought prayer was answer, and attributed the existence of the virus to an act of God. Women reported more fear of COVID-19 than men did, and this was enabled by women’s greater tendency to have Negative Affect and higher Neuroticism than men. Conclusions Neurotic people and those with more Negative Affect appear to be more fearful, more trusting in others and systems likely to protect them (e.g., scientists), and less likely to trust in systems shown to not help them (e.g., prayer). We found other effects for the Dark Triad traits and the Big Five traits. In total, we highlight some of the reasons that people may be in such disagreements about what to do about the virus at the individual and institutional levels. Personality, place, and participant’s sex all appear to play a role in the psychology of COVID-19 beliefs.

Pengaruh kepribadian, letak kendali perilaku, dan motivasi terhadap otonomi remaja memilih perguruan tinggi

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 381-395
Author(s):  
Hanrezi Dhania Hasnin
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality

Penelitian ini menguji pengaruh dimensi kepribadian, letak kendali perilaku dan motivasi terhadap otonomi remaja dalam memilih perguruan tinggi. Responden terdiri dari 222 remaja, berusia antara 16 hingga 20 tahun, telah lulus dari sekolah menengah umum, telah memilih perguruan tinggi yang ingin dimasuki dan sedang mengikuti bimbingan belajar sebagai persiapan ujian masuk perguruan tinggi. Data yang dikumpulkan berasal dari kuesioner The Big Five Personality Traits, Levenson’s IPC Locus of Control, motivasi dan otonomi perilaku yang diadaptasi untuk kepentingan penelitian ini. Hasil analisis regresi berganda menunjukkan bahwa beberapa dimensi dari kepribadian, letak kendali perilaku dan motivasi berpengaruh terhadap otonomi remaja dari pengaruh ayah, ibu, atau keduanya dalam memilih perguruan tinggi. Lebih lanjut, hasil-hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa: (1) chance dan motivasi dorongan orang lain berpengaruh negatif, sedangkan motivasi karir berpengaruh positif terhadap otonomi remaja dari pengaruh ayah dalam memilih perguruan tinggi. (2) tidak ada pengaruh dari semua dimensi kepribadian, letak kendali perilaku, dan motivasi terhadap otonomi remaja dari pengaruh ibu. (3) chance berpengaruh negatif terhadap otonomi remaja dari pengaruh orangtua.

The Effects of Locus of Control and Big Five Personality Traits on Collaborative Engineering Design Tasks With Negotiation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alkım Z. Avşar ◽  
Ambrosio Valencia-Romero ◽  
Paul T. Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Design Space Exploration ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Collaborative Systems ◽  
Collaborative Engineering ◽  
Individual Value

Abstract Collaborative systems design is a human-centered activity dependent on individual decision-making processes. Personality traits have been found to influence individual behaviors and tendencies to compete or cooperate. This paper investigates the effects of Big Five and Locus of Control personality traits on negotiated outcomes of a simplified collaborative engineering design task. Secondary data includes results from short-form personality inventories and outcomes of pair design tasks. The data includes ten sessions of four participants each, where each participant completes a sequence of 12 pair tasks involving design space exploration and negotiation. Regression analysis shows a statistically-significant relationship between Big Five and Locus of Control and total individual value accumulated across the 12 design tasks. Results show the Big Five, aggregating extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and intellect/imagination to a single factor, negatively affects individual value and internal Locus of Control positively affects individual value. Future work should consider a dedicated experiment to refine understanding of how personality traits influence collaborative systems design and propose interventions to improve collaborative design processes.

scholarly journals Correlations between microsatellite instability and the biological behaviour of tumours

2019 ◽  
Vol 145 (12) ◽  
pp. 2891-2899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Yang ◽  
Ru-yi Zheng ◽  
Zai-shun Jin
Keyword(s):  
Microsatellite Instability ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Repair System ◽  
Biological Behaviour ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Coding Regions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Frameshift Peptides

Abstract Purpose Microsatellites are widely distributed repetitive DNA motifs, accounting for approximately 3% of the genome. Due to mismatch repair system deficiency, insertion or deletion of repetitive units often occurs, leading to microsatellite instability. In this review, we aimed to explore the relationship between MSI and biological behaviour of colorectal carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, lymphoma/leukaemia and endometrial carcinoma, as well as the application of frameshift peptide vaccines in cancer therapy. Methods The relevant literature from PubMed and Baidu Xueshu were reviewed in this article. The ClinicalTrials.gov database was searched for clinical trials related to the specific topic. Results Microsatellite instability is divided into three subtypes: high-level, low-level microsatellite instability, and stable microsatellites. The majority of tumour patients with high-level microsatellite instability often show a better efficacy and prognosis than those with low-level microsatellite instability or stable microsatellites. In coding regions, especially for genes involved in tumourigenesis, microsatellite instability often results in inactivation of proteins and contributes to tumourigenesis. Moreover, the occurrence of microsatellite instability in coding regions can also cause the generation of frameshift peptides that are thought to be unknown and novel to the individual immune system. Thus, these frameshift peptides have the potential to be biomarkers to raise tumour-specific immune responses. Conclusion MSI has the potential to become a key predictor for evaluating the degree of malignancy, efficacy and prognosis of tumours. Clinically, MSI patterns will provide more valuable information for clinicians to create optimal individualized treatment strategies based on frameshift peptides vaccines.

scholarly journals The relationship between leadership abilities and narcissistic personality traits

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
pp. 48-50
Author(s):  
C. Gorobets ◽  
J.A. Prokopenko
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Constant Attention ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, the hypothesis of the existence of a connection between narcissistic personality traits and the level of leadership abilities was tested, namely: in subjects with a low level of expression of leadership abilities, such a trait of a narcissistic personality as "The need for constant attention and admiration" prevails, and at a high level of dominated by such indicator as "Exploitation in interpersonal relationships."

scholarly journals A Study on the Impact of Big Five Personality Traits on Consciousness

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akriti Srivastava ◽  
Anamika Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence their interactions with, and adaptations to, the intra psychic, physical, and social environments. Personality is the factor which influences other functioning of the individuals, keeping this view in mind its relation with consciousness was thought to be explored, which is awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Hence, this study was designed to understand the relationship between big five personality traits and consciousness, for this, the data was collected from 200 working and non-working males and females in the age range of 22 to 30 years. Sample was chosen from Banasthali Vidyapith, Tonk; Rajiv Gandhi Technical Institute, Raibarely; and Wipro Company, Bangalore. Measures used were self-consciousness scale (Fenigstein, Scheier &Buss 1975) which is a 23 item questionnaire and personality questionnaire: NEO Five-Factor Inventory-3 (NEO-FFI-3). This questionnaire was developed by Paul T. Costa, Jr and Robert R. McCrae (1989). The result indicated that openness and conscientiousness are significantly positively related with consciousness and openness emerged out as the significant predictor of consciousness. Also the significant difference was found between males and females in terms of consciousness. This study is unique in its endeavor and creates scope for further exploration in this field.

scholarly journals PENGARUH KEPRIBADIAN, LETAK KENDALI PERILAKU, DAN MOTIVASI TERHADAP OTONOMI REMAJA MEMILIH PERGURUAN TINGGI

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Hanrezi Dhania Hasnin
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality

<p>Abstrak—Penelitian ini menguji pengaruh dimensi kepribadian, letak kendali perilaku dan motivasi terhadap otonomi remaja dalam memilih perguruan tinggi. Responden terdiri dari 222 remaja, berusia antara 16 hingga 20 tahun, telah lulus dari sekolah menengah umum, telah memilih perguruan tinggi yang ingin dimasuki dan sedang mengikuti bimbingan belajar sebagai persiapan ujian masuk perguruan tinggi. Data yang dikumpulkan berasal dari kuesioner The Big Five Personality Traits, Levenson’s IPC Locus of Control, motivasi dan otonomi perilaku yang diadaptasi untuk kepentingan penelitian ini. Hasil analisis regresi berganda menunjukkan bahwa beberapa dimensi dari kepribadian, letak kendali perilaku dan motivasi berpengaruh terhadap otonomi remaja dari pengaruh ayah, ibu, atau keduanya dalam memilih perguruan tinggi. Lebih lanjut, hasil-hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa: (1) chance dan motivasi dorongan orang lain berpengaruh negatif, sedangkan motivasi karir berpengaruh positif terhadap otonomi remaja dari pengaruh ayah letak kendali perilaku, dan motivasi terhadap otonomi remaja dari pengaruh ibu. (3) chance berpengaruh negatif terhadap otonomi remaja dari pengaruh orangtua.</p><p>Kata kunci: kepribadian; letak kendali perilaku; motivasi; otonomi remaja; memilih perguruan tinggi</p>

scholarly journals Involvement in Health Behavior After Heart Transplantation: The Role of Personal Resources and Health Status. Single-Center Observational Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mierzyńska ◽  
Andrzej Kokoszka ◽  
Grażyna Jerzak-Wodzyńska ◽  
Małgorzata Sobieszczańska-Małek ◽  
Tomasz Zieliński ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Heart Transplantation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Heart Transplant ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Health Locus Of Control ◽  
Transplant Patients ◽  
High Level

Introduction: Heart transplantation affects all spheres of the patients’ functioning - their physical well-being and coping with everyday situations, as well as their identity and social functioning. Its long-term effects depend on the effective cooperation with the transplant team. Post-transplant patients are expected to be committed to adherence to recommendations. Patients’ subjective characteristics could increase the risk of difficulties during treatment or might have a protective effect. The major aim of the study was to evaluate the level of engagement in health behavior in heart transplant recipients in relation to their personal resources, such as personality traits, and their health status.Material and Method: The observational ex post facto model was proposed. Participants completed a set of psychological questionnaires. In the study, there were used questionnaires regarding health behavior (HBI), personality traits (NEO-FFI), health locus of control (MHLC), self-efficacy (GSES) and health status (GHQ-28). The group included in the analyses consisted of 107 heart transplant patients. They ranged in age from 19 to 75 years; 10.3% of them were women.Results: According to norms, 71% patients reported high level of engagement in health behavior. There were significant differences in the level of dietary habits and other types of health behaviors. The best predictors of overall health behavior were conscientiousness (β = 0.20, p &lt; 0.05) and health locus of control (Powerful Others) (β = 0.25, p &lt; 0.05). The prophylaxis behavior was related significantly to the level of conscientiousness (p &lt; 0.05) and health locus of control (Internal and Powerful Others) (p &lt; 0.05; p &lt; 0.01). The level of positive mental attitude was related significantly to agreeableness (p &lt; 0.05), health locus of control (Powerful Others) (p &lt; 0.01), and self-efficacy (p &lt; 0.01). Everyday healthy practices were related significantly to openness to experience (p &lt; 0.01) and health locus of control (all categories: Internal, Powerful Others and Chance) (p &lt; 0.05; p &lt; 0.01; p &lt; 0.05, respectively).Conclusion: Majority of heart transplant patients is engaged in high level of health behavior. Among the various forms of health-relevant habits, heart transplant patients adhere significantly less frequently to a healthy diet. Among examined resources, the best predictors of caring about health are generalized self-efficacy and age at the time of HTx.

Engine of entrepreneurial intentions: revisiting personality traits with entrepreneurial education

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijeet Biswas ◽  
Rohit Kumar Verma
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Need For Achievement ◽  
Entrepreneurial Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Students

PurposeThe intent to start an entrepreneurial venture is predisposed by certain personality traits. The study aims to analyze the impact of various identified personality traits and entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intentions of management students.Design/methodology/approachThe data for the study were gathered from 440 students of top 5 management institutes in India. The study used a cross-sectional design and structured questionnaire based on seven-point Likert scale and was administered employing a purposive sampling method. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to validate posited hypotheses in the study.FindingsThe study discerns that apart from agreeableness dimension of personality traits, all remaining identified dimensions along with entrepreneurial education had a significant influence on entrepreneurial intentions of management students with need for achievement emerging as the most important enabler. Conscientiousness was the major dimension among big five personality traits bearing a positive influence, while neuroticism registered a negative impact on entrepreneurial intentions. In addition, results bespeak that entrepreneurial education partially mediates the effect of need for achievement, locus of control and innovativeness on entrepreneurial intentions.Research limitations/implicationsThe compendious model proffered in the study might be helpful for students, educators, consultants, financial institutions and policymakers in appreciating the gravity of underlying personality traits.Originality/valueThere is a dearth of research on big five personality traits and entrepreneurial education as enablers of entrepreneurial intentions. The study attempts to integrate big five personality traits model with dimensions of need for achievement, locus of control, innovativeness and entrepreneurial education for management students in India.

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