Big Five Personality Traits Research Papers (original) (raw)

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Big Five
2.1 Discovery of the Big Five
2.2 Description and Explanation of the five factors
2.2.1 Extraversion
2.2.2 Agreeableness
2.2.3 Conscientiousness
2.2.4 Neuroticism
2.2.5 Openness
3. Brand Personality
3.1 The Brand Personality Construct
3.2 Aaker’s five-factor-solution and its critiques
3.3 Geuens’ Brand Personality Measure
4. Personality traits and customer behavior
4.1 Which customers should be targeted?
4.1.1 Satisfaction, Loyalty, Word-of-Mouth
4.1.2 Profiling
4. 2 How to target the customers?
5. Predicting personality
5.1 Facebook Profiles
5.2 Other findings
6. Conclusion
7. Bibliography
8. Appendix

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- Marketing, The big five, Social Media, Brand Personality

Background: Body Image is known to be influenced by Body Mass Index (BMI), self-esteem and personality. Body image dissatisfaction (BID) is associated with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and maladaptive eating pattern. Therefore, it is important to identify factors that can contribute to BID. Material and Methods: This study is observational cross-sectional study on 200 medical doctors in India. Data collection was by selfreported questionnaires: Sociodemographic proforma, Body Shape Questionnaire-34 for BID, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, and Big Five Inventory for Personality traits. Results: Out of 200, 23.5% (n=47) participants had BID. BID significantly correlated with higher body mass index (BMI)

- by Mukesh Samani and +1
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- Body Image, Big Five Personality Traits

Studies showed that using influence tactics and polical behavior can be beneficial to employees because they affect human resource decisions such as performance evaluation and promotion decisions (Higgins et al., 2003). However, the type and frequency of the influence tactics employees engage in differ. Previous research has indicated employees' personality, motives, needs and career concerns as the employee-related antecedents of political behavior (Steensma, 2007; Zanzi et al., 1991). In the present study, we intended to examine the employee related antecedents of political behavior through invesigating the effects of personality, values and career concerns on the use of influence tactics. For that purpose, 294 full-time employees working in various firms were surveyed using the Big Five Inventory (John, Donahue, and Kentle, 1991), Portrait Values Questionnaire (Schwartz et al., 2001), Career Concerns Scale (adapted from Zanzi et al., 1991), and Political Tactics Questionnaire (Kipnis, Schmidt, and Wilkinson, 1980). The results of this study showed that, the internal career concern of skill development (learning new techniques, developing competencies, etc.) had stronger positive relations with the influence tactics of coalition and persuasion than the external career concerns (economic concerns), which had a weaker relationship with persuasion and an inverse relation with coalition building. With regard to the personality factors, the individuals who were low in conscientiousness and high in neuroticism were found to be the most engaged with various influence tactics at work. Finally, only the self-enhancement value dimension acted as a moderator between the personality dimension of conscientiousness and influence tactics, such that when this value was highly endorsed, the increase in the conscientiousness levels of individuals decreased their tendencies to engage in influence tactics. Moreover, an opposite relationship was found regarding the moderating effect of self-enhancement on the relationship between the two career concerns of skill development and autonomy on influence tactics. Hence, for those who endorsed self-enhancement at a high level, the presence of these career concerns increased the likelihood of engaging in influence tactics at work.

- by Associate Professor Selma Arıkan and +1
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- Political Behavior, Personality, Values, Social Influence

Self-efficacy is regarded as one of the important aspects that could help teachers to achieve their learning goals and optimal work performance. However, in daily practice, there is only limited research that explores the importance of self-efficacy in the education process, especially for science teachers in Indonesia. This research aims to explore the relationship between science teachers' type of personality, self-efficacy, and work performance Indonesia. A total of 123 science teachers were chosen using purposive technique sampling to fill in the questionnaires as a form of self-report. The result shows that the type of personalities such as Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience significantly correlate to Self-efficacy. In accordance with this result, Self-efficacy also has a positive and significant correlation with the dimension of Task Performance and Contextual Performance. However, Self-efficacy has a negative correlation to the Counterproductive Work Behavior. Therefore, the higher the three personalities possess by a teacher the higher the self-efficacy and the work performance they have. This result asserts that there is a number factor that should be considered by science teachers to achieve the best work performance. The further discussion and the limitation of this research will be explained deeper in this paper.

- by Zulmi Ramdani and +1
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- Performance Studies, Theories Of Personality, Self Efficacy, Big Five Personality Traits
- by Tony Liao
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- Algorithms, Communication, Personality, Personality Assessment

This 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.

- by Emre Oruç and +1
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- Organizational Behavior, Workplace Spirituality, Big Five Personality Traits
- by Jéssica Campara
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Science Policy, Personality
- by Terri Fisher
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- Psychology, Psychometrics, Personality, Family Psychology

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between grit and entrepreneurial intent. Grit involves maintaining effort and interest in the pursuit of long-term goals, despite adversity, stagnation, or failure. Entrepreneurial intentions are a well-established indicator that represents an individual's conscious determination to start a new business. Secondary variables included the personality traits measured in the Big Five model (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism). Survey data were collected from over 500 undergraduate students at a Midwestern university in the United States. The results confirmed that there was a strong positive association between grit and entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore, independent samples t-tests revealed that high grit students showed greater entrepreneurial intent than low grit students. The data also indicated that grit fully mediated the predictive effect of conscientious and neuroticism on entrepreneurial intent. Overall, a better understanding of the influence of grit on entrepreneurial intent, given the presence of various diverse personality constellations, may help inform educators in preparing and delivering course content. The influence of grit may reduce the failure rate of new and young businesses launched by college-educated entrepreneurs.

- by Nikolaus Butz and +1
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- Entrepreneurship, Personality Psychology, Higher Education, Personality

The relationships between personality traits and motivation are significant for effective learning and teaching. The main purpose of this study is to determine the relationships between personality traits and motivation levels of Turkish university students. The specific purpose of the study is to determine which personality factor predicts academic motivation to what extent. For this purpose, Adjective Based Personality Scale (ABPT) developed by Bacanlı et al. (2009) was conducted on 353 (237 female, 116 male) students who study at state universities. ABPT was developed according to The Big Five Personality Traits and measures the five main factors of personality. Academic Motivation Scale was developed by Valerant et al. (1992) according to self-determination theory and consists of seven factors (Amotivation, External Regulation, Introjected Regulation, Identified Regulation, Intrinsic

- by ahmet sapancı
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- Psychology, Personality, Academic Motivation, TURKISH
- by Stewart Black and +1
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- Marketing, Psychology, Applied Psychology, Personality

The success of an organization is contingent on a variety of factors, including technological, financial, and human resources. While all factors are critical, the most critical is the human resource, which combines all other factors into a goal-oriented action. Suliman et al. (2010) emphasize that personality traits are the most critical factor affecting human resource performance. Personality is characterized as persistent pragmatic, interpersonal, attitudinal, and emotional patterns that account for an individual's conduct in a variety of situations (McCrae and Costa, 1989). Over the last few decades, research into personality has accelerated in a variety of fields (Shi et al., 2021). The study of personality resulted in the establishment of personality psychology, a vibrant field of study in the social sciences for decades (Adamopoulos et al., 2018; Engel-Yeger et al., 2016). People are from different backgrounds and cultural heritages which influence their values, norms, attitudes and consequently a reflection of different personalities that highlight their actions and behaviour (Ghani et al., 2016) at the workplace.

- by olakunle jayeola and +1
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- Big Five Personality Traits, Job Performance, Non-Academic Staff

This article presents two studies that deepen the theme of how soundtracks shape our interpretation of audiovisuals. Embracing a multivariate perspective, Study 1 (N = 118) demonstrated, through an online between-subjects experiment, that two different music scores (melancholic vs. anxious) deeply affected the interpretations of an unknown movie scene in terms of empathy felt toward the main character, impressions of his personality, plot anticipations, and perception of the environment of the scene. With the melancholic music, participants felt empathy toward the character, viewing him as more agreeable and introverted, more oriented to memories than to decisions, while perceiving the environment as cozier. An almost opposite pattern emerged with the anxious music. In Study 2 (N = 92), we replicated the experiment in our lab but with the addition of eye-tracking and pupillometric measurements. Results of Study 1 were largely replicated; moreover, we proved that the anxious score, by increasing the participants' vigilance and state of alert (wider pupil dilation), favored greater attention to minor details, as in the case of another character who was very hard to be noticed (more time spent on his figure). Results highlight the pervasive nature of the influence of music within the process of interpretation of visual scenes.

- by Alessandro Ansani
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- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Eye tracking, Environmental Psychology

This paper aimed at seeking the new leadership model in the 21st century by reviewing different leadership theories and discussing key elements. The four-layer model which is established based on different leadership theories equips leaders with ethical and flexible leadership for coping with the fickle, complex and crisis-prone context in the 21st century through our case study.

Psychometrics assessments for personality are tools that organisations use to discover the personality of potential hire and make determinations as to whether they will fit into the organisation and the job. Despite the pedigree of psychometric assessments, such as the big five inventory assessment, questions are being asked about the reliability of the results. The reasons for the scepticism are reproducibility of results and social desirability bias. The implementation of machine learning technologies can improve the reliability of the results by learning from historical datasets to make more accurate predictions on how well a candidate based on personality will fit into an organisation. This paper explores the current implementation of psychometric tests and suggests integrating machine learning into the workflow. The author finally does a SWOT analysis of the potential implementation.

- by Martin Kilduff
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- Marketing, Social Networks, Personality, Self Monitoring

ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationships between individual differences in situational triggers of aggressive behaviors (STAR) and the FFM personality traits. The investigation, conducted among Polish male and female offenders and students, revealed different relationships across samples. Among students, higher sensitivity to frustration and provocation was related to higher Neuroticism and lower Agreeableness and sensitivity to provoking situations to lower Openness to Experience. Among prisoners, however, lower Agreeableness was negatively linked to being more sensitive to provocation. Furthermore, the study found sex differences in STAR scales in the student sample but not the prisoners’ sample.

- by Anna Zajenkowska
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- Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Science, Personality Psychology

This study explores social media users' personality traits and motivations for the usage of two different social media platforms, Facebook and Pinterest, as well as how the varied uses impact users' negative emotional experiences. The findings suggest that the intensity of social media usage is positively related to negative emotions. For Facebook users, socialization, entertainment, and information seeking motivations significantly influence their platform use intensity and, subsequently, lead to negative emotions. Self-status seeking also has a direct effect on Facebook users' negative emotions. For Pinterest users, socialization is not a significant motivation for usage of that platform. However, entertainment, information seeking, and self-status seeking significantly predict their platform use intensity, which subsequently lead to negative emotions. Similarly, all four motivations for Facebook and Pinterest uses are influenced by users' personality traits: extraversion and openness. Yet, openness has a greater impact on using Pinterest than Facebook in terms of fulfilling socialization needs. Neuroticism has a positive impact on socialization and information seeking motives for use of both platforms, while conscientiousness and agreeableness have a negative influence on fulfilling self-status seeking needs. In addition, agreeable social networking site users are less likely to use Facebook than Pinterest for fulfilling self-status related gratifications, while they are likely to use Pinterest instead of Facebook for entertainment and information needs. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

- by Yen-I Lee
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- Emotion, Social Media, Motivation, Big Five Personality Traits

At present social networks play an important role to express people's sentiment and interest in a particular field. Extracting a user's public social network data (what the user shares with friends and relatives and how the user reacts over others' thought) means extracting the user's behavior. Defining some determined hypothesis if we make machine understand human sentiment and interest, it is possible to recommend a user about his/her personal interest on basis of the user's sentiment analyzed by machine. Our main approach is to suggest a user regarding the user's specific interest that is anticipated by analyzing the user's public data. This can be extended to further business analysis to suggest products or services of different companies depending on the consumer's personal choice. This automation will also help to choose the correct candidate for any questionnaire. This system will also help anyone to know about himself or herself, how one's behavior may influence others. It is possible to identify different types of people such as- dependable people, leadership skilled, people of supportive mentality, people of negative mentality etc.

- by Shah Alam
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- Psychology, Data Mining, Big Five Personality Traits, Online Social Networks (OSNs)

Innovation studies are discovered mainly in the field of management, but not many in higher education environments. A study
on student innovativeness, receptivity to fresh concepts and culture of development, and the execution of innovation concepts as
results are urgently needed. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to seek understanding the role of Big Five personality traits as
a determinant of innovative behaviour among business students. This research acknowledges innovative behaviours which are
recognition of problems and creation of ideas, collections of new ideas and promotions and ultimately execution of new ideas at
individual’s level. Since many personal and internal determinants are regarded to influence innovative behaviour, the study on the
enablers and predictors of innovative behaviour needs to be carried out at the business students’ level as it is positively associated
to begin an enterprise. The results of the study suggested that extraversion, conscientiousness and openness of Big Five personality
traits have positive significant effects on innovative behaviour among business students. However, the agreeableness and neuroticism
have no significant effect on innovative behaviour. Conscientiousness is found to be the highest predictor of innovative behaviour
among business students.

- by Jianguanglung Dangmei
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- Students, Business and Management, Big Five Personality Traits, Innovative

The survey data measure the tendencies of cognitive self-control and deviant act behavior as a component to identify the personality factors as predictors of criminal behavior. It studies the impact of personality against the extended psychological factors which help in the predisposition of youth towards such behavior. Participants in the study were 130 Indian college-going students in the age group of 18-27 yrs. The correlation analysis has revealed that four out of five personality domains have shown a clear negative correlation towards the dimensions of deviant acts and cognitive abilities. But the dimensions measured against the factors risk-seeking, impulsivity, and physical activity have shown a clear positive relation. The regression analysis has confirmed that the domains Neuroticism and Agreeableness have accounted for 25.4% of the variance in predicting the cognition controls to criminal behavior and 3.6% of the variance in predicting the deviant act behaviors. These findings then extend to understand the concepts associating between personality and self-control and behavioral measures as indicators of criminal behavior.

This study assessed the statistical relationship between neuropsychological performance, IQ and personality test results and school grades in a longitudinal sample of adolescent males. One-hundred and forty-eight boys completed six years of WISC-R short forms (Block Design and Vocabulary) and provided six years of math and language grades and grade failure data while in elementary school. In junior high school, the same boys completed an extensive neuropsychological test battery and the NEO-PI-R, a standard big five personality trait measure. Neuropsychological test scores were more powerfully associated with grades than were IQ scores, despite their later and single administration. In addition, hierarchical regression analysis demonstrated that three of four neuropsychological test score factors (Verbal Learning, Executive Function, and Tactile Laterality improved the statistical association with six-year averaged failure-weighted grades over and above IQ (averaged Vocabulary and Block Design). NEO-PI-R Agreeableness was significantly and positively related to grades, over and above both IQ and neuropsychological function.

- by Jordan Peterson and +1
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- Personality Psychology, Neuropsychology, Personality, Intelligence

Internet use has been increasing exponentially day by day depending on technological developments. In connection with this, excessive internet use leads to unhealthy internet use named as internet addiction. Recently, it is remarkable that internet addiction and big five-personality traits are closely related. In this framework, the aim of this research is to investigate relations between internet addiction and big five-personality traits. For this purpose, meta-analysis method was used in this research. In line with the aim of the research, 12 studies were included in the meta-analysis and 13 effect sizes were calculated from these researches. As a result of meta-analysis, it was found that all big five-personality traits had a meaningful relation with internet addiction. In this context, it was determined that neuroticism was positively related with internet addiction whereas openness to new experiences, conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness were negatively related with it. In consequence, it is considered that big five-personality traits are an important factor in terms of internet addiction.

- by fuad bakioğlu and +1
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- Internet Addiction, Big Five Personality Traits

The current study aimed to expand our knowledge regarding social work students' willingness to engage in policy practice (EPP). A theoretical model integrating the Big Five personality framework with the 'Civic Voluntarism Model' (CVM) was examined, using a sample of 160 social work students in Israel. Findings revealed a moderate level of EPP willingness. Among the CVM predictors, political skills, political knowledge and political interest were significantly positively associated with social work stu-dents' EPP willingness. Among the Big Five traits, extroversion, conscientiousness and openness to experience were significantly associated with EPP willingness. Path analysis showed that political skills were the strongest predictor of EPP willingness and that political skills and extroversion had a direct effect on EPP willingness. The significant mediation paths demonstrated the dynamics by which the study predictors interacted in explaining 49 per cent of the variance in EPP willingness. The study concluded that the examination of a model incorporating the Big Five personality traits and modified CVM predictors provided a comprehensive understanding of EPP willingness and, therefore, should be adopted to explain social workers' actual engagement in policy practice.

A cross-sectional correlational study that examined three possible predictors of naturally occurring mindfulness: trait anxiety, conscientiousness and openness. The sample comprised 115 participants of mixed age males and females, some with mediation experience and some without. Participants completed a four part self-report questionnaire containing measures for each of the four variables: mindfulness, openness, conscientiousness and trait anxiety. The overall model was supported as together trait anxiety, openness and conscientiousness explained 24% of mindfulness variance. Trait anxiety was significantly negatively predictive of mindfulness and although both openness and conscientiousness were hypothesised to be positively predictive, only openness was found to be significantly predicted of mindfulness.

- by Ayla Michelle Demir
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- Quantitative Psychology, Statistics, Multivariate Statistics, The big five
- by Joachim Stoeber
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- Psychology, Behavioural Science, Psychological Assessment, Personality Psychology

Sample Solution, Organizational Behavior: An Analysis of Mental Abilities & the Big 5 Personality Traits in Numb3rs (Numbers), S01E01

- by Ilan Dar-Nimrod
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- Marketing, Big Five Personality Traits, Coolness, Big 5

Traditional, biologically based trait theories have deservedly gained broad acceptance, but some long-standing core issues of
personality research remain unresolved. Recent research questions whether (a) there can be a single universal structural
model of personality superfactors, (b) current theory adequately specifies the processes that mediate behavioral and emotional
expressions of traits, and (c) brain-based accounts of traits adequately explain their role in real-world functioning and
adaptation. This article reviews the perspective on these issues provided by cognitive-adaptive trait theory. This theory rejects
the view that personality dimensions directly reflect brain systems. Instead, traits correspond to variation in strategies for
managing key adaptive challenges. Thus, each trait is expressed in environments that pose those challenges, and each trait corresponds
to skills and self-knowledge that facilitate adaptation to those environments. The cognitive-adaptive theory affords
novel perspectives on trait psychometrics, theoretical accounts of mediating processes, and real-world adaptation.

- by Gerald Matthews
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- Personality Psychology, Neuroticism, Big Five Personality Traits, Extraversion

The tremendous digital growth of high speed internet and handy mobile devices in recent years let social media become a popular medium of communication. Also with features like providing information, education and entertainment, social media become an important part of ever one s life. By the end of 2018, among the 1.3 billion Indian population there are 511 million and odd internet users (TRAI) which include 226 million and odd social media users (Statista). A report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) revealed that there are only 30% of number of social media users in India will make up female users. Social media is more like a virtual world where people project themselves through posts and pictures.There are few studies across world which evidenced women empowering other women through social media. The main objective of the study is to analyze how women of a particular geographical location (Tamil Nadu) orient themselves by examining the prominence of social media profile picture and personal bio (about) they publicize. The content of the profile picture and personal bio women post on their social media is driven in part by personality. For analysis a coding sheet was constructed to study several traits of the profile pictures based on Ekman s model of si discrete basic emotions and to understand the portrayal through personal bio based on Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality along with other basic physical and technical characteristics of a profile picture like colour, edits, background, etc. The analysis and interpretations of the profile pictures and personal bio of random sample of women social media users (N=300) in Tamil Nadu chosen from the top three most used social media platforms in India: WhatsApp (N=100), Facebook (N=100) and Instagram (N=100) are discussed in relation to framed coding sheet. The findings of the study also focused on socio-cultural representation of women in social media.

- by Suganya S and +1
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- New Media, Women's Studies, Digital Media, Social Media

The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) is a widely-used instrument to measure the two components of social desirability: self-deceptive enhancement (SDE) and impression management (IM). With respect to scoring of the BIDR, Paulhus (1994) has authorized two methods, namely continuous scoring (all answers on the continuous answer scale are counted) and dichotomous scoring (only extreme answers are counted). In the present article, three studies with student samples are reported, and continuous and dichotomous scoring of BIDR subscales are compared with respect to reliability, convergent validity, sensitivity to instructional variations, and correlations with personality. Across studies, the scores from continuous scoring (continuous scores) showed higher Cronbach's alphas than those from dichotomous scoring (dichotomous scores). Moreover, continuous scores showed higher convergent correlations with other measures of social desirability and more consistent effects with self-presentation instructions (fake-good versus fake-bad instructions). Finally, continuous SDE scores showed higher correlations with those traits of the five-factor model for which substantial correlations were expected (i.e., neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness). Consequently, the present findings indicate that continuous scoring may be preferable to dichotomous scoring when assessing socially desirable responding with the BIDR.

- by Joachim Stoeber
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- Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology

Human beings have a need to understand -- themselves and others -- the world around them -- and the cosmos of which they are but a minute part. That understanding may be based on scientific discovery. And, when that is lacking, speculation will suffice. Each individual cobbles together their particular worldview and, for the most part, clings to it tenaciously. Some individuals, however, experience a profound change in their worldview. This paper, now more than twenty years old, reviews the work of Jack Mezirow on transformative learning in adults and offers suggestions as to why some individuals undergo a radical shift in their understanding of themselves and their world.

Are there universal patterns in musical preferences? To address this question, we built on theory and research in personality, cultural, and music psychology to map the terrain of preferences for Western music using data from 356,649 people across six continents. In Study 1 (N = 284,935), participants in 53 countries completed a genre favorability measure, and in Study 2 (N = 71,714), participants in 36 countries completed an audio-based measure of preferential reactions to music. Both studies included selfreport measures of the Big Five personality traits and demographics. Results converged to show that individual differences in preferences for Western music can be organized in terms of five latent factors that are invariant (i.e., universal) across countries and that generalize across assessment methods. Furthermore, the patterns of correlations between personality traits and musical preferences were largely consistent across countries and assessment methods. For example, trait Extraversion was correlated with stronger reactions to Contemporary musical styles (which feature rhythmic, upbeat, and electronic attributes), whereas trait Openness was correlated with stronger reactions to Sophisticated musical styles (which feature complex and cerebral attributes often heard in improvisational and instrumental music). The patterns of correlations between musical preferences and gender differences, ethnicity, and other sociodemographic metrics were also largely invariant across countries. Together, these findings strongly suggest that there are universal patterns in preferences for Western music, providing a foundation on which to develop and test hypotheses about the interactions between music, psychology, biology, and culture.

A cross-cultural explanatory sequential mixed method design was utilized to investigate the implementability of social networking services for educational purposes. It was aimed to shed light on the nature of relationship between the use of social networking services and pre-service teachers’ personality, motivation to use
Facebook, motives to use Facebook, and attitude towards using Facebook. In addition to that, it was aimed to understand the perceived usefulness and feasibility of Social networking services as educational tools and the feelings of the future teachers about
the “appropriateness” of Facebook as an educational implementation. In the quantitative phase of the research, which was carried out in both Turkey and then the United States of America, a correlational study was utilized. For scaling motives,
motivation, personality, Facebook use, and attitude towards using Facebook, five questionnaires which were developed and used in English were translated into Turkish. Multiple linear, ordinal logistic, and binomial logistic regression analyses were conducted for quantitative data analysis. In the qualitative phase, Turkish pre-service teachers were interviewed and a constant comparative analysis was conducted on the transcripts. It was found that personality is not a major predictor of Facebook
use. Pre-service teachers have a positive perception of the use of Facebook for educational purposes in both countries. However, there have been many differences between the two countries’ pre-service teachers in terms of Facebook use and motives. It was demonstrated that pre-service teachers associate Facebook mostly with relationship, communication, and learning and they see Facebook as educationally implementable.

- by Oğuzhan Atabek
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- Social Networks, Personality, Mixed Methods, Grounded Theory

The project manager’s personality traits directly impact the success of the projects to a great extent. The literature reveals that all the famous projects were led and managed by great personalities. Big Five Personality Traits of the project managers at all tiers have an overriding role in deciding the project performance. This paper endeavors to unearth the impact of project manager’s personality through Five Factor Model upon the project success. Regression analysis of the empirical data; collected from 170 people, engaged with projects, validates the hypothesized research model. The results suggest that Big Five Personality Factors i.e. Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Openness to Experience can be used as determinants of the project’s success. The research can be applied in two ways, firstly to ascertain the success of the project and secondly, it may be helpful in selection of the project managers. This research is based on a limited and narrow sample size and demands further validating exploration through a larger and wider sample size.

- by Muhammad Tahir
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- Project Success, Big Five Personality Traits, Team Selection, Project performance

This study developed a Japanese version of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI-J) and examined its reliability and validity. The participants were 902 Japanese undergraduates (376 males, 526 females). They completed the TIPI-J and one of the other Big-Five scales: Big Five Scale (BFS; Wada, 1996); Five Factor Personality Questionnaire (FFPQ-50; Fujishima et al., 2005); BFS short version (Uchida, 2002); Big Five (Murakami & Murakami, 1999); or the NEO-FFI (Shimonaka et al., 1999). The TIPI-J was administered again two weeks later to 149 participants to determine test-retest reliability. Also, 31 pairs of participants rated their self-image and the other-image using the TIPI-J to explore the relationship between self-rated and friend-rated TIPI-J scores. The results generally supported the reliability and validity of the TIPI-J.

- by Atsushi Oshio
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- Big Five Personality Traits, Scale Development

- by Francesca D'Errico
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- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Eye tracking, Environmental Psychology
- by Joost van der Leij
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- Big Five Personality Traits

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between broad and select narrow personality traits and knowledge sharing behavior of employees in workplace. This study especially contributes to literature of personality by uncovering the unexplored affective states in the context of knowledge sharing behavior. Sample was drawn by using simple random sampling without replacement technique. To test the hypotheses, correlation, regression and bootstrap mediation procedures were applied to the sample data. Testing a sample of 274 university teachers, significant associations were found between big five traits, proactive personality, creative self-efficacy, and knowledge sharing behavior. Openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, proactive personality and creative self-efficacy were positively related to knowledge sharing behavior, whereas, neuroticism was negatively related to knowledge sharing behavior in workplace. The relationship between extraversion, agreeableness and creative self-efficacy was partially mediated by positive affect and the relationship between neuroticism and knowledge sharing behavior was partially mediated by negative affect. In conclusion, members of organizations, at all levels, should be trained to manage their emotions and affective reactions intelligently to share knowledge effectively and gain maximum benefits from knowledge based assets. In addition, organizational tasks must be assigned to employees with suitable narrow or broad personality traits to maximize the performance level. All the sophisticated, scientific and technical works requiring high level of knowledge sharing should not be assigned to neurotic workers. However, agreeable, extrovert, conscientious and open individuals may handle all knowledge sharing activities effectively. It is also suggested that the works requiring scientific innovation and creativity could better be performed by people high in creative self-efficacy, whereas, knowledge works requiring manual dexterity like technology transfer, industry academia linkages and knowledge based networking can best be done by proactive people.

Адаптація українською мовою методики TIPI С.Гослінгом, П.Ренфру і В.Свонном для дослідження п'яти факторів особистості (текст методики наявний) . Наведено дані про показники внутрішньої узгодженості альфа Кронбаха, ретестову надійність, конструктну валідність перевірено за допомогою аналізу кореляційних зв'язків шкал ТІРІ та відповідних шкал п'ятифакторних методик («Локатора великої п'ятірки» (адаптація Л.Бурлачук, .Д. Корольов)

Psikolojik dayanıklılık, kişilerin yaşamda karşılaştıkları çeşitli güçlükler ve zorluklar karşısında, kendilerini toparlayabilme veya bunların üstesinden gelebilme yeteneğidir. Bu çalışmada, psikolojik dayanıklılığın açıklanmasında hangi kişilik özelliklerinin etkili rol oynadığı ve hangi dayanıklılık boyutlarının bu süreçte öne çıktığının belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmada anket yöntemi ile 286 üniversite öğrencisinden veri toplanmıştır. Ölçüm araçları olarak Beş Faktör Kişilik Ölçeği ile Psikolojik Dayanıklılık Anketi kullanılmıştır. Kanonik korelasyon analizi sonucunda elde edilen bulgular, dışadönüklük, özdisiplin, gelişime açıklık ve uyumluluk seviyeleri yüksek, nörotiklik seviyeleri düşük kişilerin psikolojik dayanıklılıklarının yüksek olduğunu göstermiştir. Bunun yanında psikolojik dayanıklılığın açıklanmasında kendilik algısı, sosyal kaynaklar ve sosyal yeterlilik alt boyutlarının, kişiliğin açıklanmasında ise dışadönüklük ve özdisiplin alt boyutlarının ön plana çıktığı ortaya çıkmıştır. Sonuçta psikolojik dayanıklılığın açıklanmasında kişiliğin önemli bir varyansa sahip olduğu ortaya çıkmış ve elde edilen bulgular yazındaki sonuçlar ışığında tartışılmıştır.

- by H. Nejat Basım
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- Personality, Resilience, Big Five Personality Traits, Canonical Correlation