scholarly journals EXTRAVERSION AND NEUROTICISM IN RELATION TO WELL-BEING – DO SOME SOCIAL CATEGORIES AND PERSONALITY TRAITS MODIFY THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEM?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-483
Author(s):  
Nikolay Ivantchev ◽  
Stanislava Stoyanova
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Levels

The theoretical assumptions and research findings have established some connections between extraversion/introversion, and neuroticism on the one hand, and well-being on the other hand. There is scarce scientific literature specifying these connections in different social categories or their possible modification in different levels of such personality traits as psychoticism and social desirability. The goal of the current study was to specify if the relationships between extraversion, neuroticism and well-being varied, according to gender, age, degree of manifestation of psychoticism and social desirability. The sample consisted of 470 Bulgarians from 18 to 55 years old using Bulgarian adaptation of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and a dichotomized analogous scale measuring subjectively assessed well-being. This study found that higher well-being was related to higher extraversion and lower neuroticism, no matter of gender, age, or the degree of manifestation of other personality traits such as psychoticism and social desirability. Social isolation during COVID-19 pandemic may reflect negatively on well-being, as due to various constraints the extrovert people limit their social contacts and because of increased emotional lability in emergency situations that deserves further being investigated.

scholarly journals A Correlative Study Between Personality Traits and the Preference of Site Selection in Cosmetic Treatment

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Qian ◽  
Yuxiao Ling ◽  
Chen Wang ◽  
Cameron Lenahan ◽  
Mengwen Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Face Contour

Background: Cosmetic treatment was closely associated with beauty seekers' psychological well-being. Patients who seek cosmetic surgery often show anxiety. Nevertheless, not much is known regarding how personality traits relate to the selection of body parts that receive cosmetic treatment.Aims: This study aims to investigate the correlation between personality traits and various selection sites for cosmetic treatment via Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ).Methods: A cross-sectional approach was adopted to randomly recruited patients from a general hospital planning to undergo cosmetic treatments. All respondents completed the EPQ and provided their demographic information. The EPQ involves four scales: the extraversion (E), neuroticism (N), psychoticism (P), and lying scales (L). Psychological scales were evaluated to verify that people who selected different body sites for cosmetic intervention possessed different personality portraits.Results: A total of 426 patients with an average age of 32.14 ± 8.06 were enrolled. Among them, 384 were females, accounting for more than 90% of patients. Five treatment sites were analyzed, including the body, eye, face contour, nose, and skin. Comparatively, patients with neuroticism were more likely to undergo and demand rhinoplasty (OR 1.15, 95% CI 1.07–1.24, P < 0.001). Face contour treatment was commonly associated with extraversion (OR 1.05, 95% CI 1.00–1.11, P = 0.044), psychoticism (OR 1.13, CI 1.03–1.25, P = 0.013), and neuroticism (OR 1.05, CI 1.01–1.10, P = 0.019).Conclusions: This novel study attempted to determine the personality profiles of beauty seekers. The corresponding assessments may provide references for clinical treatment options and enhance postoperative satisfaction for both practitioners and patients.

6. The why of creativity

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Vlad Glăveanu
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
The Other ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter addresses why people engage in creativity. This question can be answered at different levels. On the one hand, one can refer to what motivates creative people to do what they do. On the other hand, the question addresses a deeper level, that of how societies today are built and how they, in turn, construct the meaning and value of creativity. Nowadays, people consider creativity intrinsically valuable largely because of its direct and indirect economic benefits. However, creative expression also has a role for health and well-being. Creativity also relates to meaning in life. The chapter then considers how creativity can be used for good or for evil.

scholarly journals INCREASING POPULATION INCOME AS A FACTOR FOR PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL VILLAGES

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 992-1000
Author(s):  
L.K. Subrakova
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Siberian Federal District ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
The One

The purpose of the study is to substantiate the relevance of introducing special measures of support for the population of small villages on the basis of a generalization of domestic and foreign practices of social benefits during the coronavirus pandemic. The poor situation of small villages, on the one hand, and the relatively low financial cost of payments, limited by territory and social categories, on the other hand, led to the proposal to preserve and develop small villages with the achievement of economic and socio-demographic well-being. In order to curb the process of depopulation in rural areas it is proposed to develop a strategy for the preservation and development of small villages, including a special state policy of income for the population of small villages on the basis of a guaranteed rural minimum income. The conceptual basis of this policy can be the idea of a universal basic income with variations of conditional, selective, both monetary and natural basic income. The implementation of this approach is proposed as an experiment in small villages of the regions of the Siberian Federal District. According to calculations, 50 million rubles a year will be required to pay 437 thousand residents in 5.8 thousand rural settlements of the regions of the Siberian Federal District, or 0.65 % of GRP. As a result, it is expected to reduce excessive income inequality, improve the demographic situation and increase employment. The research is based on the method of dialectical knowledge of processes and phenomena. When studying the issues of the state and trends of changes in the situation of small rural settlements, monographic, abstract-logical and economic-statistical methods were used.

scholarly journals Coping Strategies and Accentuations of Personality Traits in First-Year Students with Different Levels of Subjective Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1040-1049
Author(s):  
E. F. Yashchenko ◽  
O. V. Lazorak
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Research University ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
State University ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Levels

The research objective was to determine the features, interrelations, and differences in subjective well-being, coping-strategies, and accentuations of personality traits. The experiment featured first-year students with different levels of subjective well-being that majored in technical sciences at the South Ural State University (National Research University) in Chelyabinsk (Russia). The research involved the subjective well-being scale developed by Perrudet-Badoux, Mendelsohn, and Chiche in M. V. Sokolova’s adaptation, R. Lazarus’s coping-test, and G. Schmieschek and K. Leonhard’s questionnaire. The experiment included 43 male students (mean age – 17,8), who were divided into three groups according to the level of subjective well-being. The first-year students with high and medium levels of subjective well-being had a wide range of coping strategies. The students with a low level of subjective well-being had an insufficient personal and psychoemotional resource to cope with adversities. The authors also defined priority links between accentuations, coping strategy, and subjective wellbeing. The experiment confirmed the hypothesis that first-year students with different levels of subjective well-being would have different indicators of coping strategies and accentuations of personality traits, as well as different structure of research scale connections. The results can help to create programs for the development of coping strategies in first-year students.

scholarly journals Walkability and Resilience: A Qualitative Approach to Design for Risk Reduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Porębska ◽  
Paola Rizzi ◽  
Satoshi Otsuki ◽  
Masahiro Shirotsuki
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Route Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Active Research ◽  
The One ◽  
Evacuation Route Planning ◽  
Evacuation Route

Quality of life and well-being are hardly ever an issue when life itself is at stake. The advantages of high-quality walkable streets and public spaces are underestimated when larger problems need to be addressed first and seemingly more serious solutions need to be applied. Hence, a quantitative approach to evacuation route planning and design prevails over a qualitative one or at least a hybrid one. The scope of the ongoing study partially presented in this paper is to find methods for addressing the complicated present and the disastrous future at the same time. The one applied in the case study reported here—Susaki City in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan, which is preparing for the next Nankai earthquake and tsunami, expected sometime soon—was a cycle of active research and international workshops organized in cooperation with the local community and administration. The aim was to understand the challenges that concern the design of dual spaces that are suitable for both everyday life and emergency situations and are connected by walkable spaces. As a result, the paper offers insight into the limits of punctual treatments as well as the relativity of objective and subjective dimensions of urban walkability in the context of risk. Despite the complexity of the issue, a walkable built environment was revealed to be a countermeasure rather than a fad.

scholarly journals Customer loyalty guidelines for independent financial advisers in South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Estelle Van Tonder ◽  
Mornay Roberts-Lombard
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Relationship Commitment ◽  
North West ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The One

Orientation: Independent financial advisers in South Africa can make a valuable contribution to the financial well-being of the country’s citizens and, through sound financial planning and education, assist them in becoming financially independent.Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop guidelines for creating customer loyalty towards independent financial advisers in South Africa.Motivation: To succeed, financial advisers need to build good relationships with clients and ensure they remain loyal to them in the long term.Research design, approach and method: A convenience non-probability sampling technique was applied, and altogether 262 self-administered questionnaires were completed and used in the analysis. Descriptive and standard multiple regression analysis and the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) technique were used to test four hypotheses formulated for the study.Main findings: Relationship commitment must be established in a trustworthy environment, regardless of the type of province where the business is operated.Practical/managerial implications: In urban provinces (such as Gauteng) both trusting relationships and commitment could lead to customer loyalty; in semi-urban provinces (such as North-West) only the commitment variable might do so. Independent financial advisers in both provinces should explore additional factors that could foster customer loyalty.Contributions: The research findings of this study challenge the seminal work of Morgan and Hunt (1994) by establishing that in South Africa, the extent to which trust and commitment predicts customer loyalty is specific to both industrial and geographical location. This study further provides customer loyalty guidelines for independent financial advisers in South Africa.

scholarly journals Resilience of biological homeostasis: A single shield against the coronavirus. Naisberg Yakov AMCHA (R.A)-National Israel Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors of the Holocaust and the Second Generation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sleep Stages ◽  
Mental Load ◽  
Healthy State ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Physical Information ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Levels

Medical practice demonstrated that subjects who inherited normal genes can maintain a healthy schedule throughout life expectancy and vigorously ensure their physical and mental resilience as a shield against infectious diseases. Resilience is based on macro biophysical neurophysiological parameters comparing healthy homeostasis, to address specific external means of maintaining normal neuronal loop (NNLA) activity, providing synchronized body operating ranges (BOR) with four daytime and four nighttim sleep phases. The NNLA protects the movement of biochemicals and others, including fluids in BOR that synchronize daytime rest alertness, with minimal, moderate, and maximum physical or mental load and slow down BOR speeds during sleep stages I, II, III, and IV. These BOR phases are fed from external physical information units in a stable dynamic homeostatic margin range that we refer to as transient homeostatic synchronization (THR) mode. THR is synonymous with resilience and reversal within the internal organism driven by objective obtained from a macro biophysical neurophysiological objective data and subjectively the person feels his relaxed body rewards him with pleasant biological emotion and cognitive well-being. Subjects who have inherited or acquired abnormal genes have been linked in action to abnormal neuronal loop operation (ANLO) that causes chronic distress at different levels of intensity, we call transient homeostatic desynchronized (THD) condition with accelerated BOR and causes hypersensitivity or slowing of BOR to be hyposensitive. It provides a single or mixed DSM IV disorder. The purpose of this paper is twofold, treating resilience as internal homeostasis on the one hand and replacing THD with macro biophysical neurophysiological informative therapy (MBNIT) that drive the BOR given to a resilient version of THR or to a flexible healthy state on the other.

The importance of appraisal in stressor–well-being relationships and the examination of personality traits as boundary conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Williamson Smith ◽  
Michael M. DeNunzio ◽  
Nicholas J. Haynes ◽  
Aneeqa Thiele
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Mediating Mechanisms ◽  
Emotional Demands ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of appraisals in three stressor–well-being relationships: (1) the mediating role of challenge appraisals in the relationship between daily skill demands and daily work engagement, (2) the mediating role of hindrance appraisals in the relationship between daily interruptions and daily depletion and (3) the mediating role of threat appraisals in the relationship between daily emotional demands and daily anxiety. We also examined the moderating influence of conscientiousness on the daily skill demands–challenge appraisal relationship, the moderating role of extraversion on the daily interruptions–hindrance appraisal relationship and the moderating influence of neuroticism on the daily emotional demands–threat appraisal relationship. Supplemental analyses also examined the moderating influence of the aforementioned personality traits on the respective direct effects of stressors on well-being outcomes.Design/methodology/approachWe tested our hypotheses using a 5-days experience sampling design in a sample of 114 working adults and employed multilevel modeling.FindingsAll hypothesized mediating mechanisms were supported, however, the majority of moderation hypotheses were not supported.Originality/valueWe sought to extend the relatively recent advancement in the challenge–hindrance framework to provide additional evidence of the utility of distinguishing between challenge, hindrance and threat stressors. Although not supported, this is the one of the first papers to test the moderating influence of personality traits on the stressor–appraisal relationship.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of Personal Constructs in Professionals of Extreme Spheres of Activity (with Officers of the Ministries of Emergency Situations and Internal Affairs as an Example)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-16
Author(s):  
Vera A. Glukhova ◽  
Alisa S. Maltseva
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
The Given

The article presents the results of an empirical study of personality traits of officers of the Ministries of Emergency Situations and Internal Affairs. The study is aimed at revealing specific combinations of personality traits - personality constructs characterizing specialists of different extreme occupations. 80 individuals took part in the research work. The pronouncedness of personality traits in the officers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) was compared using the following techniques and methodologies: S.Maddy Hardiness Survey; Holmes-Rahe Stress and Social Adjustment Scale; Method for Diagnosing of Emotional Burnout Levels by V.V. Boyko; California Psychological Inventory (CPI). The MIA officers have been found to have more pronounced personality traits such as vitality and hardiness (according to the S. Maddy Survey), social presence, independence, responsibility, socialization, making a good impression, "ordinary guy" impression, feeling of well-being, achievement through subordination, intellectual effectiveness, manliness (according to CPI). The comparison of the factor structures revealed invariant (with significant factor loading in both groups) and variable (with significant factor loading in one group) elements. The following personality constructs have been identified in the personality structure of the MIA officers: transactional leadership, strategy of variational adjustment in situations of uncertainty, strategy of taking responsibility under the given conditions, personal and social normativity. The following personality constructs have been identified in the personality structure of the MES officers: role-related masculinity, role-related empathy, strategy of volitional control in situations of uncertainty, strategy of variational adjustment under the given conditions.

The Mediating Effect of Personality Traits on the Relationship Between Self-Concealment and Subjective Well-Being

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Ling Qi ◽  
Lijuan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Using path analysis, we examined the mediating effect of personality traits on the relationship between self-concealment and subjective well-being. Participants were 291 undergraduates who completed the Chinese versions of the Self Concealment Scale, NEO Five-Factor Inventory, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and General Well-Being Schedule. Our results showed that both self-concealment and neuroticism had negative effects on subjective well-being, while extraversion had a positive effect on subjective well-being. Self-concealment affected subjective well-being indirectly via personality traits. These findings suggest that self-concealment has both direct and indirect effects on subjective well-being, and that personality traits are directly associated with subjective well-being. This indicates that personality traits may mediate the association between self-concealment and subjective well-being.

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