scholarly journals Can the Big Five Explain Both Interindividual Differences and Intraindividual Changes in Personality Traits?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Grosz
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Interindividual Differences ◽  
The Common

The Big Five personality traits were discovered through factor analyses of cross-sectional associations among personality items. Yet, cross-sectional factor structures are a weighted blend of between- and within-person factor structures. Thus, the Big Five might not represent the underlying factors on the within-person level or on the between-person level. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether the Big Five factor structure holds on the between- and within-person level of personality trait measures. I fit common and unique trait-state (CUTS) models (Hamaker, Schuurman, & Zijlmans, 2017) to 11 years of longitudinal data from a Dutch household panel study (N = 12,901; Mage at Time 1 = 41.71; 54.34% women). The results indicated that the Big Five factor structure held across both between- and within-person levels. The findings lend support to past research that did not distinguish between the two levels when measuring the Big Five. The results furthermore suggest that latent dimensions rather than a network of interconnected components underly the common variance of Big Five trait measures.

scholarly journals The Big Five Personality Traits, Occupational Stress, and Job Satisfaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Petasis ◽  
Odysseas Economides
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Cross Sectional

The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between Big Five Personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness), occupational stress and job satisfaction of police officers in Cyprus Police. A cross-sectional design was employed, where data was collected at a single time point. A total of 133 participants took part in the research program. The research instruments consisted of the Neo Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) and Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS). The result of the research indicated that the correlation of conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience and agreeableness to job satisfaction were not significantly linked while neuroticism had a moderately negative correlation with job satisfaction, and it was the only statistically significant relationship. Results showed that gender had a statistically significant relationship with job satisfaction, with males reporting greater job satisfaction than females. Additionally, work stress in the police force significantly predicts job satisfaction over and above the effect of personality traits.

Relationship Between Personality Traits and Nursing Professionalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-162
Author(s):  
Behnam Masmouei ◽  
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Hossein Bazvand ◽  
Mehdi Harorani ◽  
Mohammad-Rafi Bazrafshan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Professional Behavior ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Professionalism is among the major concepts of nursing. Besides, nursing professionalism is often associated with attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors that underlie the successful clinical practice. Personality traits can affect various aspects of an individual’s life. Accordingly, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between personality traits and nursing professionalism. Methods: A cross-sectional correlational study was conducted on 205 nurses in teaching hospitals of Khoramabad City, Iran, in 2017. The study subjects were recruited by the stratified sampling method. NEO Personality Inventory and Goze Professional Behavior questionnaire were used to collect the required information. Then, the obtained data were analyzed by SPSS using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Nursing professionalism had a direct relationship with extraversion (r=0.330, P<0.05), conscientiousness (r=0.333, P<0.05), and agreeableness (r=0.172, P=0.014); it also had an inversed relationship with neuroticism (r=- 0.161, P=0.021). Conclusion: The Big Five personality traits are strongly related to nursing professionalism; with conscientiousness and extraversion as the most pronounced traits. Nurses’ attitudes are partly rooted in their personality traits and these attitudes affect the nurse-patient relationship. Therefore, it is suggested that these characteristics be considered in appointing nurses in different departments.

scholarly journals Big Five Personality Model-based study of death coping self-efficacy in clinical nurses: A cross-sectional survey

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0252430
Author(s):  
Xi Lin ◽  
Xiaoqing Li ◽  
Qing Liu ◽  
Shengwen Shao ◽  
Weilan Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Clinical Nurses

Background Specific personality traits may affect the ability of nurses to deal with patient death. The relationship between personality and death coping self-efficacy (DCS) has rarely been investigated in the palliative care setting. In this study, we explored the associations between different personality profiles and DCS in clinical nurses from general wards and ICU. Methods A cross-sectional survey of 572 Chinese nurses was conducted between August and September 2020, by way of a self-administered questionnaire. Results Among the Big Five Personality Traits, in nurses the score was highest for conscientiousness and lowest for neuroticism. With regard to DCS, nurses scored highly on the intention of hospice care. The Big Five Personality Traits were found to explain 20.2% of the overall variation in DCS. Openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness were significantly associated with DCS in nurses. Conclusions Nursing managers should pay attention to differences in personality characteristics and provide personalized and targeted nursing education. This should improve nurses’ DCS, enrich their professional development and promote high quality palliative care for patients and their families.

Political Protest and Personality Traits: A Neglected Link

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Dieter Opp ◽  
Hermann Brandstätter
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Personal Influence ◽  
Social Incentives

We examine the extent to which personality traits and variables based on the theory of collective action (i.e., incentives) can explain protest participation. We use the Big Five personality traits, measured by a list of bipolar adjectives: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Incentives are political discontent and perceived personal influence, perceived obligation to protest and social incentives (i.e., integration in protest encouraging social networks). We hypothesize that personality traits have an effect on incentives and, together with incentives, on protest behavior. We test our hypotheses with a two-wave panel study, conducted in Leipzig (East Germany), where a total of 438 persons were interviewed in 1993 and 1996. Major findings are that personality traits have only weak effects on protest, compared to the variables of the theory of collective action, and that personality traits have various effects on the independent variables (i.e., the incentives) of the theory of collective action.

scholarly journals Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and after Becoming a Parent

2020 ◽  
pp. per.2269
Author(s):  
Eva Asselmann ◽  
Jule Specht
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After

In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea. Here, we used data from a nationally representative household panel study from Germany ( N = 19 875) to examine whether becoming a parent relates to personality maturation. Whether a child was born was assessed yearly, and the Big Five personality traits were measured in four waves from 2005 to 2017. We used multilevel analyses to investigate whether personality differs between individuals who will or will not become parents, whether personality differs before and after becoming a parent, and whether these effects vary by gender, age, and living status. In sum, our findings revealed that less open and more extraverted individuals were more likely to start a family, and openness and extraversion both decreased after the transition to parenthood. Some other effects varied by gender, age, and living status. Taken together, our findings suggest that the Big Five personality traits differ before and across the transition to parenthood and that these differences especially apply to openness and extraversion. © 2020 The Authors. European Journal of Personality published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals Big Five Personality Traits Influence Tinnitus Improvement Over Time

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Simões ◽  
Winfried Schlee ◽  
Martin Schecklmann ◽  
Berthold Langguth ◽  
Daria Farahmand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Tinnitus Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Tinnitus Distress ◽  
Patient Groups ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTPrevious studies investigating the relation between personality and tinnitus distress showed that high neuroticism and low extraversion scores are related to higher tinnitus distress measured by the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and the Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ). However, little is known about the role of personality on tinnitus distress over time.We collected the THI, TQ and Big Five Factor Index 2 of 388 patients who visited the Tinnitus Center Regensburg between 2012 and 2017, and filled in a survey with the same questionnaires in 2018. We used personality traits and facets to predict tinnitus distress cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Neuroticism and extraversion were significant predictors of THI and TQ scores in cross-sectional linear regression setups, and could explain up to 40% of the variance. However, the linear regressions could explain only little variance of both THI and TQ longitudinally. We clustered patients in three groups based in the difference THI and TQ between the two assessments: “clinically improved”, “clinically stable” and “clinically worsened”. The patients in the “clinically improved” and “clinically stable” groups scored statistically significantly lower in neuroticism and higher in extraversion than patients in the group “clinically worsened”. We observed a similar trend among patients who tried at least one clinical treatment.Our results suggest that personality traits, namely neuroticism and extraversion, are relevant markers of tinnitus distress over time and could be used to statistically distinguish patient groups with clinically relevant changes of tinnitus distress. These markers could inform both treatment responses from clinical studies and future choices on more efficient individual tinnitus treatments.

scholarly journals Big Five Personality Traits and Workplace Spirituality: A Mixed Method Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-108
Author(s):  
Hasan Tutar ◽  
Emre Oruç ◽  
Ahmet Tuncay Erdem ◽  
Harun Serpil
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional

AbstractThis mixed method study aims to examine the relationship between big-five personality traits and workplace spirituality from a managerial perspective by analyzing its potential effects on management. In the quantitative step, the cross-sectional survey was employed as the data collection, and the data were obtained from a sampling group through the simple random sampling. Further, the qualitative part of the study was designed as a purposive sampling technique. The quantitative research data were obtained from 238 participants working in a public university in Turkey. The qualitative data were obtained by interviewing a group of 14 people from the same sample of participants working as administrators at the same university. The qualitative data of the study were analyzed by content analysis. The findings indicate that the harmony between the perception of personality structures and workplace spirituality has an important function in the adoption of workplace values by the employees.

scholarly journals Big Five Personality Traits are Associated with Tinnitus Improvement Over Time

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Simões ◽  
Winfried Schlee ◽  
Martin Schecklmann ◽  
Berthold Langguth ◽  
Daria Farahmand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Tinnitus Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Tinnitus Distress ◽  
Patient Groups ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Over Time

AbstractPrevious studies have shown that personality traits are related to tinnitus distress as measured by the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and the Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ). However, little is known about the role of personality on tinnitus distress over time. We collected the THI and the TQ of 388 patients who visited a tertiary tinnitus clinic between 2012 and 2017, and who filled in a survey with the same questionnaires plus the Big Five Index 2 in 2018. We used personality traits and facets to predict tinnitus distress cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, age and gender were significant predictors of the THI and TQ scores in cross-sectional linear regression setups. Next, based on previous literature, we clustered patients in three groups based in the difference THI and TQ between the two assessments: “clinically improved”, “clinically stable” and “clinically worsened”. The patients in the “clinically improved” and “clinically stable” groups scored statistically significantly lower in neuroticism and higher in extraversion than patients in the group “clinically worsened”. Our results suggest that personality is associated with tinnitus distress over time and could be used to statistically distinguish patient groups with clinically relevant changes of tinnitus distress.

scholarly journals Association of “Big Five” Personality with Perceived Stress in Medical Postgraduates: A Cross-sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Shivanand Manohar ◽  
Raj Kiran Donthu ◽  
Syam K. R. ◽  
Kishor M. ◽  
Keshava Pai
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Stress Studies

Background: Medical postgraduates are exposed to more time in patient care and thereby higher stress. Personality is one of the important factors associated with stress. Studies exist in profiling personality traits and also assessing stress in medical professionals. However, in India, to the best of our knowledge, there are only few studies linking personality traits with stress in different branches of medicine. Aim : The aim of the study was to study the association between big five personality traits and stress among medical postgraduates. Setting and Design This was a cross-sectional study in medical college. Materials and MethodsBig five inventory, perceived stress scale 14. Statistical Analysis Used Chi-square, t-test, analysis of variance, correlation. Results Personality pattern among postgraduates were low on openness (P = 0.000), neuroticism (P = 0.001), and high agreeableness (P = 0.007) compared to general population. Among the different branches pre-paraclinical branches have low openness (P = 0.004), medical branches have high agreeableness (P = 0.000), low openness (P = 0.000), surgical branches have low openness (P = 0.004), and neuroticism (P = 0.003). Married students have high neuroticism (P = 0.007). Perceived stress is high in all variables compared to general population. Among different subjects of medical sciences, it is significantly high in pre-paraclinical (P = 0.001) and clinical branches (P = 0.001). Negative correlation exists between conscientiousness (r = ?0.233, P = 0.025), extraversion (r = ?0.204, P = 0.050), and positive correlation between neuroticism (r = +0.607, P = 0.000) with perceived stress. Conclusions:Medical postgraduates have low openness, neuroticism, and high agreeableness. Perceived stress is high in medical postgraduates in all demographic variables compared to the general population.

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