Personality Factors Affecting Pilot Combat Performance: A Preliminary Investigation

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick M. Siem ◽  
Michael W. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting

PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVES AND DEFENSIVE PERSON PERCEPTION: A BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT AND A REVISED MODEL

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avi Assor
Keyword(s):  
Person Perception ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Stimulus Person ◽  
Emotional Arousal ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Defensive Processing ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Hedonic Value ◽  
Future Outcomes

Three stages in the development of the theoretical framework which has guided research on motives and defensive person perception are described, beginning with a trait approach and ending in a process oriented interactive model. Then, in order to accommodate findings showing that threatening stimuli are often processed in a realistic rather than a defensive way, a revised interactive model is proposed as a fourth stage of conceptualization. According to the revised model, perceiver's motives lead to defensive person perceptions only if (a) the interaction of perceiver's motives with the attributes of the stimulus person and the situation produces emotional arousal in the perceiver; and (b) the perceiver assumes that defensive processing of information related to the stimulus person has higher hedonic value than realistic processing. The following factors are proposed as determinants of the hedonic value and the relative intensity of realistic versus defensive processing: (a) the degree to which the stimulus is objectively linked with the perceiver's personal future outcomes; (b) the clarity of this hedonic link; (c) perceiver's ability to perceive negative hedonic links; (d) hope that realistic processing will help to obtain desired future outcomes; (e) potency of present negative feelings produced by the stimulus; and (f) personality factors affecting the intensity of emotional arousal or the capacity to tolerate and control emotional arousal. According to the revised model, defensive effects of motives on person perception are likely to occur primarily outside the laboratory, in the context of lasting and meaningful interpersonal relations.

ILLNESS TRANSMISSION MODE AND PERCEIVER PERSONALITY: FACTORS AFFECTING STIGMATIZED PERCEPTIONS OF PATIENTS AND SEXUAL ILLNESS

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 853-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabie E. Smith ◽  
Christopher S. Nave
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Transmission ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Specific Illness

Past field research has demonstrated the devastating impact of illness stigma on patient populations; experimental studies have identified specific illness characteristics that influence stigmatization and social rejection of patients. The current study used a quasi-experimental design to investigate the influence of participant erotophobia-erotophilia (Fisher, Byrne, & White, 1983) and illness transmission (nonsexual, sexual) on perceptions of illness and patients. Sexual illness transmission led to significantly more negative perceptions of the illness and patient. A significant Erotophobia-Erotophilia x Nonsexual-Sexual Transmission interaction influenced participants' social rejection of the patient. Specifically, erotophobes socially rejected patients with the sexually transmitted illness more than patients with the nonsexual illness.

Associations of Social Personality Factors with Personal Habits

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1315-1321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Psychological Reactance ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Nail Biting ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory

125 university students indicated how frequently they performed 15 different personal habits that ordinarily are socially disapproved, e.g., nail-biting, nose-picking. They also responded to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, the Social Desirability Scale, the Hong Psychological Reactance Scale, and the Social Interest Scale. The sexes differed in the frequencies with which they performed 6 of the 15 habits: men were more likely to pick their noses, to spit, to pick at scabs, or to repeat another's speech; while women were more apt to giggle or to pull hair. Persons who scored higher in Social Desirability tended to report less frequent performance of 12 of the 15 habits, while people who scored higher on Psychological Reactance tended to report more frequent performance of 8 of the 15 habits. A total habits score resulting from the sums of the frequency ratings of each of the 15 habits correlated positively with Psychological Reactance and negatively with Social Desirability. Scores on Narcissism and Social Interest did not significantly correlate with most habits. These results suggest that the approval motive and the disposition to resist limitation on one's freedoms may be factors affecting the rates of many of these personal habits.

scholarly journals Personality characteristics and competitive anxiety in individual and team athletes

PLoS ONE ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e0262486
Author(s):  
Supatcharin Kemarat ◽  
Apiluk Theanthong ◽  
Wichai Yeemin ◽  
Sutima Suwankan
Keyword(s):  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Competitive Anxiety ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory ◽  
And Gender

The purposes of this study were to investigate differences in personality and competitive anxiety depending on types of sports and gender, and to determine the influence of personality on competitive anxiety. Participants included 237 athletes (134 men and 103 women) who participated in the Thailand University Games, 2020. They were classified as individual (n = 114) and team (n = 123) athletes. Personality characteristics and competitive anxiety were assessed by using NEO five-factor inventory and sport competitive anxiety test. Differences between individual and team athletes and between gender were tested by using independent t-test. Relationships between personality and competitive anxiety were analyzed by using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. Moreover, multiple regression analysis was used to measure the contributions of personality on competitive anxiety. The results showed that competitive anxiety was significant difference between individual and team athletes (p = 0.03, d = 0.28). However, there was no difference in personality between groups. When compared between gender, there were significant differences in competitive anxiety (p < 0.001, d = 0.52) and the agreeableness (p = 0.04, d = -0.26) component of personality between female and male athletes. From the correlation analyzes, four characteristics of personality showed significant associations with competitive anxiety including neuroticism (r = -0.472, ρ < 0.001), extraversion (r = 0.184, ρ = 0.005), agreeableness (r = 0.147, ρ = 0.024), and conscientiousness (r = 0.202, ρ = 0.002). Among five personality factors, the neuroticism had minimally negative effect on competitive anxiety (β = -0.52) with percentage of prediction of 22%. These can be concluded that types of sport and gender are the important factors affecting personality and competitive anxiety. The athletes with certain personality traits were more susceptible to competitive anxiety. Importantly, the neuroticism could serve as a prediction of the competitive anxiety in all collegiate athletes.

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