It is known that personality is important in computer-mediated communication (CMC), influencing both how we express ourselves, and how we are perceived. Here we build in two ways on previous work which has used the LIWC text analysis tool to derive language factors relating to personality. First, we investigate whether linguistic factor structure in e-mail is similar to that in weblogs, and how...

This study reports on a multi-method examination of the associations between the Hypomanic Personality Scale (HPS) and a number of normal and abnormal personality traits. An unselected sample of undergraduates (N = 101) participated in structured laboratory tasks assessing Big Five traits, completed self-report measures of Big Five and other personality traits, and for a subset of participants,...

This study examined the connections that the facets of narcissism captured by the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Hall, 1979) and the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI; Pincus et al., 2009) have with self-esteem. This was accomplished by asking 372 participants to complete measures of narcissism and self-esteem level as well as daily diary measures concerning their state ...

The current study examined mean level and change in extraversion and neuroticism across adolescence in relation to physiological stress reactivity to social evaluation. Adolescents (n=327) from the Dutch general population reported on personality measures at five annual assessments. At age 17 years, adolescents participated in a psychosocial stress procedure characterized by social evaluation d...

A general discussion of psychophysiological methods in relationship to personality research is presented for the investigator without an extensive knowledge of psychophysiology. The paper is organized in four sections: (a) advantages inherent in the use of psychophysiological measures (e.g .. continuous measurement. sensitivity to subliminal responses): (b) psychophysiological constructs that a...

One approach to subtyping alcoholics is the use of psychometric tests that quantify a person 's personality characteristics, psychological characteristics, and intelligence. Cor example, researchers have used the Personality Research Corm, which measures basic personality traits, to establish alcoholism typologies. Other psychometric measures that have been employed in the classification of alc...

The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) is a relatively new personality assessment showing much promise in forensic and correctional settings. The present review examines correlations and effect sizes from a list of studies (n = 17) utilizing the PAI in these areas in order to provide concurrent validity with other psychological measures in the categories of (1) mental and perso...

Just over two hundred telephone sales sta€ completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and Honey and Mumford's Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ). Extraversion was highly correlated both positively and negatively with three of the four LSQ measures. The lie scale from the EPI was also systematically correlated with the Activist and Re ̄ector scales of the LSQ. Both the EPI and LSQ traits ...

IMPORTANCE Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common muscular dystrophy observed in adults, is a genetic multisystem disorder affecting several other organs besides skeletal muscle, including the brain. Cognitive and personality abnormalities have been reported; however, no studies have investigated brain functional networks and their relationship with personality traits/disorders in pat...