background:   personality characteristics are important factors, which have significant effects on marital adjustment. since personality traits play silent roles in all aspects of human life, as well as social affairs, it can influence marital adjustment and living satisfaction. the present study investigated the role of personality trait dimensions and gender in predicting marital adjustment. ...

In order to assess dogs' personality changes during ontogeny, a cohort of 69 Border collies was followed up from six to 18-24 months. When the dogs were 6, 12, and 18-24 months old, their owners repeatedly filled in a dog personality questionnaire (DPQ), which yielded five personality factors divided into fifteen facets. All five DPQ factors were highly correlated between the three age classes,...

This research had three basic goals: (a) to identify manipulation tactics used in close relationships; (b) to document empirically the degree of generality and specificity of tactical deployment across relationship types (mates, friends, parents); and (c) to identify links between five major personality dimensions and the usage of manipulation tactics. Twelve manipulation tactics were identifie...

personality traits and emotion regulation processes play an important role in human health. the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of positive personality traits (psychological hardiness and interpersonal forgiveness) in emotion regulation of patients with irritable bowel syndrome.the research was a cross-sectional study. statistical population included all of ibs patients referr...

personality research has approached a salient consensus step due to widespread use of individual differences, converging on five big model factors with marketing concept. this paper clarifies a market mavenism psychology concept and relates market mavens with big five factor model. market mavens are consumer which have tendency to become especially involved in the marketplace. the purpose of th...

The Personality-enabled Architecture for Cognition (PAC) is a new modeling architecture designed to create Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with personality traits and cultural characteristics. PAC integrates theory and empirical data from personality psychology, social psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to build a model of personality that is based on fundamental underlying human...

Privacy is an important aspect of interactive system design. To clarify whether there are individual differences in privacy concerns that relate to personality, we conduct a questionnaire study with 287 participants in which we assessed privacy concerns and the “big five” personality factors openness to experience, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and extraversion. Our results show...

The correlation between general intelligence (g), a general factor of personality (GFP), and social desirability was examined in a sample of 507 siblings. Each sibling within a pair was examined separately, creating two groups. Individuals had completed an omnibus personality inventory measuring 20 personality traits as well as a timed, group administered intelligence test. Factor analyses on t...

Genetic factors exert an important influence on adult personality traits, accounting for anywhere between 30% and 60% of the variance. Heredity is also important for most forms of psychopathology and plays a major role in several theories that relate personality to psychopathology. Despite this, there has been surprisingly little multivariate genetic research reported on joint analyses of perso...

The authors argue that a new six-dimensional framework for personality structure--the HEXACO model--constitutes a viable alternative to the well-known Big Five or five-factor model. The new model is consistent with the cross-culturally replicated finding of a common six-dimensional structure containing the factors Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), eExtraversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Con...