The purpose of this study was to identify different types of occupational well-being based on the circumplex model (Russell, 1980; Warr, 1994), and to examine how these types are related to the Big Five personality profiles. The middle-aged participants were drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (N = 183). Application of a person-oriented approach wit...

This study directly tests the effect of personality and cognitive style on three measures of Internet use. The results support the use of personality—but not cognitive style—as an antecedent variable. After controlling for computer anxiety, selfefficacy, and gender, including the “Big Five” personality factors in the analysis significantly adds to the predictive capabilities of the dependent va...

The rationale for lexical studies rests on the assumption that the most meaningful personality attributes tend to become encoded in language as single-word descriptors. We articulate some key premises of the lexical approach and then review a number of studies that have been conducted examining the factor structure of personality descriptors extracted from dictionaries. We compare lexical studi...

objective: driving is a complex behavior and is affected by several factors. this cohort study aimed at representing the main determinants such as personality features, driving behavior, and mental illnesses on driving violation based on logistic regression. methods: in this cohort study, 800 heavy truck and lorry drivers were recruited. participants were selected from those individuals who ref...

Previous findings showed the associations between each of the Big Five personality trait and adolescents' life satisfaction were different. Some traits (extraversion and neuroticism) correlated with adolescents' life satisfaction, while other traits did not have the same associations with adolescents' life satisfaction. In order to explain why the Big Five traits differed in their associations ...

Background: Professional identity is a part of human identity and career has a beneficial impact on psychological health. The importance of personality in job achievement has also been increasingly concerned in economics. Objective: To compare the Big Five personality factors between employed and unemployed persons. Materials and Methods: This study was an applied cross sectional analytic des...

In this paper, we address perceived personality trait prediction problem from a novel perspective. First, in the course of generating ground-truth, we ask external observers to continuously provide ratings along multiple dimensions ranging from 0 to 100 along time, and we generate continuous annotations in space and time. Secondly, in addition to the widely used Big Five personality dimensions,...