scholarly journals The surgical personality: comparisons between urologists, non-urologists and non-surgeons

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Andrew E. MacNeily ◽  
Lynn Alden ◽  
Eric Webber ◽  
Kourosh Afshar
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Normal Personality ◽  
Revised Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Resident Selection ◽  
Post Hoc

Background: Our objective was to compare personality traitsbetween urologists and other surgeons, as well as between surgeonsand non-surgeons.Methods: Eighty-six surgeons (57 faculty, 29 residents) completedthe Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R), a validatedmeasure of normal personality traits. Subjects agree or disagreewith 240 statements to generate a score in each of the 5 major charactertraits: extraversion (E), openness (O), conscientiousness (C),agreeableness (A) and neuroticism (N). Each factor is subdividedinto 6 component facets. Scores for urology faculty and residentswere compared to the other surgical groups and 21 pediatricians.Results: The 3 groups differed significantly on extraversion(p < 0.001). Post-hoc analyses indicated that urologists obtainedsignificantly higher extraversion scores than other surgeons(p < 0.05) and non-surgeons (p < 0.001) Other surgeons also scoredsignificantly higher than non-surgeons on the extraversion factor(p < 0.05). No significant differences emerged on openness, conscientiousness,agreeableness or neuroticism. Of the 6 extraversionfacets, urologists obtained significantly higher scores on gregariousnessand excitement-seeking (p < 0.05) than non-urologist surgeons,and significantly higher scores on gregariousness (p < 0.05),activity (p < 0.01), excitement seeking (p < 0.001), and positiveemotions (p < 0.05) than non-surgeons. Non-urologist surgeonsobtained significantly higher scores than non-surgeons on Activityand Excitement-seeking (p < 0.01).There were no significant differencesin the facets of warmth or assertiveness.Interpretation: Urologists appear to be more extraverted comparedto other surgeons. Both groups of surgeons were more extravertedthan non-surgeons. If these findings can be confirmed on a widerbasis, the data may be helpful in resident selection, mentoring,evaluation and career counselling.Contexte : Notre objectif était de comparer des urologues à d’autreschirurgiens, ainsi que des chirurgiens avec des médecins nonchirurgiens, sur le plan de certains traits de personnalité.Méthodologie : Quatre-vingt-six chirurgiens (57 membres du personneluniversitaire, 29 résidents) ont rempli le questionnaire NEOPI-R (Revised NEO Personality Inventory), un instrument validé demesure de traits normaux de la personnalité. Les sujets doiventindiquer leur accord ou désaccord avec 240 énoncés et obtiennentainsi un score pour chacun des 5 principaux traits de personnalité: extraversion (E), ouverture (O), caractère consciencieux(C), personnalité agréable (A) et névrosisme (N). Chaque facteurest sous-divisé en 6 facettes. Les scores pour les urologues et lesrésidents ont été comparés à ceux d’autres groupes de chirurgienset à ceux de 21 pédiatres.Résultats : Les 3 groupes différaient de façon significative sur leplan de l’extraversion (p < 0,001). Les analyses ultérieures ontindiqué que les urologues avaient obtenu des scores significativementplus élevés sur le plan de l’extraversion que les autreschirurgiens (p < 0,05) et les médecins non-chirurgiens (p < 0,001).Les autres chirurgiens ont aussi obtenu des scores significativementplus élevés que les non-chirurgiens pour l’extraversion (p < 0,05).Aucune différence significative n’est ressortie quant à l’ouverture,au caractère consciencieux, à la personnalité agréable ou au névrosisme.Sur les 6 facettes de l’extraversion, les urologues ont obtenudes scores significativement plus élevés pour l’instinct grégaire etla recherche de stimulation (p < 0,05) par rapport aux chirurgiensnon-urologues, et des scores significativement plus élevés pourl’instinct grégaire (p < 0,05), le niveau d’activité (p < 0,01), larecherche de stimulation (p < 0,001), et les émotions positives(p < 0,05) par rapport aux médecins non-chirurgiens. Les chirurgiensnon-urologues ont obtenu des scores significativement plusélevés que les médecins non-chirurgiens quant au niveau d’activitéet à la recherche de stimulation (p < 0,01). On n’a noté aucunedifférence significative pour les facettes de la personnalité chaleureuseou de l’affirmation de soi.Interprétation : Il semble que les urologues soient plus extravertisque les autres chirurgiens. Les deux groupes de chirurgiens étaientplus extravertis que les non-chirurgiens. Si ces résultats sont confirmésdans un échantillon plus important, les données pourraient aider à la sélection des résidents, au mentorat, à l’évaluation et au counselling professionnel.

The Revised NEO Personality Inventory as Predictor of Police Academy Performance

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 676-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Detrick ◽  
John T. Chibnall ◽  
Michael C. Luebbert
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Police Academy ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Normal Personality ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
Revised Neo Personality Inventory

Preemployment psychological evaluation utilizing personality inventories is common in law enforcement settings. The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R), developed from the five-factor theory of normal personality functioning, has proven useful in personnel selection. This study examined the predictive validity of NEO PI-R facet scales for predicting academic, firearms, physical, and disciplinary elements of police academy performance, as well as academy graduation. Results indicated that recruits higher in Values and lower in Excitement-Seeking did better academically, those lower in Anxiety did better at firearms, and those lower in Deliberation and Fantasy and higher in Activity did better in physical training. In a logistic regression analysis, Excitement-Seeking, Ideas, and Values predicted disciplinary memos, whereas Self-Consciousness, Altruism, Feelings, Order, Positive Emotions, and Vulnerability predicted absenteeism. Vulnerability to stress was the sole multivariate predictor of graduation. The use of the NEO PI-R as a selection instrument for police officers appears promising.

Evaluation of Personality Traits of Patients with Epilepsy Using Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R)

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-683
Author(s):  
Mitsutoshi Okazaki ◽  
Masumi Ito ◽  
Naoto Adachi ◽  
Atsuko Sunaga ◽  
Naoko Shimmitsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Revised Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Patients With Epilepsy

scholarly journals How Accurate Are National Stereotypes? A Test of Different Methodological Approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Hřebíčková ◽  
René Mõttus ◽  
Sylvie Graf ◽  
Martin Jelínek ◽  
Anu Realo
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Revised Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Real People ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
National Stereotypes

We compared different methodological approaches in research on the accuracy of national stereotypes that use aggregated mean scores of real people's personality traits as criteria for stereotype accuracy. Our sample comprised 16,713 participants from the Central Europe and 1,090 participants from the Baltic Sea region. Participants rated national stereotypes of their own country using the National Character Survey (NCS) and their personality traits using either the Revised NEO Personality Inventory or the NCS. We examined the effects of different (i) methods for rating of real people (Revised NEO Personality Inventory vs. NCS) and national stereotypes (NCS); (ii) norms for converting raw scores into T–scores (Russian vs. international norms); and (iii) correlation techniques (intraclass correlations vs. Pearson correlations vs. rank–order correlations) on the resulting agreement between the ratings of national stereotypes and real people. We showed that the accuracy of national stereotypes depended on the employed methodology. The accuracy was the highest when ratings of real people and national stereotypes were made using the same method and when rank order correlations were used to estimate the agreement between national stereotypes and personality profiles of real people. We propose a new statistical procedure for determining national stereotype accuracy that overcomes limitations of past studies. We provide methodological recommendations applicable to a wider range of cross national stereotype accuracy studies. Copyright © 2018 European Association of Personality Psychology

The five‐factor personality model in applied settings

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itzhak Montag ◽  
Joseph Levin
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Male Subjects ◽  
Female Subjects

Two studies of the Revised NEO‐Personality Inventory (NEO‐PI‐R) conducted on two different applicant samples (one consisting of 539 female subjects and the other consisting of 396 male subjects) are reported. Factor analysis of the female sample yielded a five‐factor solution, highly congruent with the factors presented by Costa, McCrae and Dye (1991). Results of the male data were less clear‐cut, yielding four to five factors which were moderately congruent with the American data. The combined male and female sample showed again high congruence coefficients. Various minor deviations in the location of the facet variables are discussed.

scholarly journals Low Openness on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory as a Risk Factor for Treatment-Resistant Depression

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. e71964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michio Takahashi ◽  
Yukihiko Shirayama ◽  
Katsumasa Muneoka ◽  
Masatoshi Suzuki ◽  
Koichi Sato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Treatment Resistant Depression ◽  
Treatment Resistant ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Revised Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Resistant Depression

Revised Neo Personality Inventory Profiles of Narcissistic and Nonnarcissistic People

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 512-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nerella V. Ramanaiah ◽  
Fred R. J. Detwiler ◽  
Anupama Byravan
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Revised Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
Univariate Analyses

This study investigated the construct validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory against the Revised NEO Personality Inventory to test the hypothesis that narcissistic and nonnarcissistic people have different personality profiles The two inventories were administered to 96 male and 92 female undergraduates Multivariate as well as univariate analyses of variance indicated that the Revised NEO Personality Inventory profiles were significantly different for narcissistic and nonnarcissistic groups which supported the construct validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory.

scholarly journals Revision of the Criticism Avoidance dimension of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas de Francisco CARVALHO ◽  
Catarina Possenti SETTE
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Parallel Analysis ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Pathological Characteristics ◽  
Dsm 5

Abstract The aim of this study was to revise the Criticism Avoidance dimension of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory and to investigate its psychometric properties. The participants included 213 subjects aged 18 to 69 years (Mean = 25.56; Standard Deviation = 8.70), mostly females (N = 159; 74.3%). All participants answered the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory and the Brazilian versions of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Personality Inventory for DSM-5. A total of 470 new items were developed and selected using content analysis, and 39 items composed the final version. Based on the parallel analysis and factor analysis, three interpretable factors were found. The internal consistency coefficients showed adequate levels of reliability ranging between 0.80 and 0.91 for the factors. Additionally, expected correlations were found between the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory and the other tests. The present study demonstrated the adequacy of the dimension revised to assess pathological characteristics of the avoidant personality functioning.

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