Adolescent conscientiousness predicts lower lifetime unemployment.

Conscientiousness predicts greater recovery from negative emotion.

Greater levels of conscientiousness have been associated with lower levels of negative affect. We focus on one mechanism through which conscientiousness may decrease negative affect: effective emotion regulation, as reflected by greater recovery from negative stimuli. In 273 adults who were 35-85 years old, we collected self-report measures of personality including conscientiousness and its sel...

Does Lower Unemployment Reduce Poverty ?

s the link between unemployment and poverty as strong as many people think it is? Possibly not. How strong the link is depends critically on how we measure poverty. And during the past two decades, researchers have identified numerous shortcomings in the government’s official procedures for determining the extent of poverty. In this article, Bob DeFina presents empirical evidence that improved ...

Title and Running Title: Conscientiousness Predicts Diurnal Preference

The relationship between diurnal preference, as measured by the Horne-Östberg questionnaire, and quantifiable personality traits was investigated in 620 participants. A hierarchical multiple regression demonstrated that conscientiousness was the single biggest predictor of diurnal preference (beta = 0.26), after controlling for depression, sleep disorders, shift work, age, gender, and demograph...

Emotion Conscientiousness Predicts Greater Recovery From Negative Emotion

BRIEF REPORT Conscientiousness Predicts Greater Recovery From Negative Emotion

Greater levels of conscientiousness have been associated with lower levels of negative affect. We focus on one mechanism through which conscientiousness may decrease negative affect: effective emotion regulation, as reflected by greater recovery from negative stimuli. In 273 adults who were 35–85 years old, we collected self-report measures of personality including conscientiousness and its sel...