A longitudinal study of employed individuals was used to test the relationship between social investment at work-the act of cognitively and emotionally committing to one's job-and longitudinal and cross-sectional personality trait development. Participants provided ratings of personality traits and social investment at work at two time-points, separated by approximately three years. Data were a...

Callous-unemotional (CU) traits, such as lacking empathy and emotional insensitivity, predict the onset, severity and persistence of antisocial behavior. CU traits are heritable, and genetic influences on CU traits contribute to antisocial behavior. This study examines genetic overlap between CU traits and general domains of personality. We measured CU traits using the Inventory of Callous and ...

Purpose To examine the extent to which medical school interviewers consider perceptions of applicant personality traits during a semi-structured panel interview, the interrater reliability of assessments, and the impact of such perceptions on individual admission decisions. Method Semi-structured panel interviews were conducted with applicants to the Doctor of Medicine Program at the University...

OBJECTIVE The dimensional personality disorders model in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-5 section III conceptually differentiates impaired personality functioning (criterion A) from the presence of pathological traits (criterion B). This study is the first to specifically address the measurement of criterion A in older adults. Moreover, the convergent/divergent validity of criterio...

OBJECTIVE The aims of the study were to (1) validate the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in a sample of Spanish adults with and without eating disorders, and (2) explore the role of emotion regulation difficulties in eating disorders (ED), including its mediating role in the relation between key personality traits and ED severity. METHODS One hundred and thirty four patients (...

This study investigated long-term correlated change between personality traits and perceived social support in middle adulthood. Two measurement occasions with an 8-year time interval from the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on Adult Development (ILSE) were used. The sample consisted of 346 middle-aged adults (46-50 years at T1). Four different types of perceived social support were assess...

Personality traits have rarely been used to discussed the phenomenon under information systems context, especially not in the emerging topic of IS continued usage. IS continuance gained prominence because it is seem as the key indicator to the successfulness of information systems. This study explores and proposed a model to connect personality traits to IS continued usage through the introduct...

INTRODUCTION Certain personality traits are associated with higher risk of Alzheimer's disease, similar to cognitive impairment. The identification of biological markers associated with personality in mild cognitive impairment could advance the early detection of Alzheimer's disease. METHODS We used hierarchical multivariate linear models to quantify the interaction between personality traits...

To investigate the effects of marital status and position on DSM-III-R personality traits, we administered the self-rating questionnaires of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders to 757 male computer engineers, aged 20 to 49 years, at a computer manufacturing plant. The scores for six of eleven personality traits were significantly higher in single computer engin...

Personality traits have been widely studied in the context of collaboration in human teams. Research has shown that the personality traits of team members affect the team’s common understanding and hence the overall performance. Although there is much research on Human-Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA), teamwork, designing IVAs with personality traits that support the development of a human-IVA s...