Adherence to treatment regimens were investigated in eighty-three individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease. Personality traits of conscientiousness and agreeableness, necessity and concern medication beliefs and health locus of control were examined. This quasiexperimental, cross-sectional, correlational, quantitative and qualitative design consisted of an anonymous online survey with measures i...

Optimism and pessimism are associated with important outcomes including health and depression. Yet it is unclear if these apparent polar opposites form a single dimension or reflect two distinct systems. The extent to which personality accounts for differences in optimism/pessimism is also controversial. Here, we addressed these questions in a genetically informative sample of 852 pairs of twin...

This article briefly introduces the criterion construct, citizenship performance, describes how this construct is different from task performance and presents a recently derived 3-dimension model of the domain. Evidence is then reviewed for links between personality constructs and citizenship performance. An update of the Organ and Ryan (1995) meta-analysis of personality-organizational citizen...

The current study examined the unique relations of childhood and adolescent maltreatment (emotional, physical, and sexual) with DSM-III-R personality disorder (PD) dimensions in a sample of undergraduates. The results suggested that reported levels of childhood sexual maltreatment were uniquely related to six of the 11 PD dimensions examined. In contrast, reported levels of adolescent emotional...

A surge in longitudinal personality research has yielded insights into how our personalities change over life stages. Very little of this research, however, employed the HEXACO model personality, and thus is known about life-course of, especially, honesty-humility dimension, nor psychometric properties inventories. In study, we investigate stability two years among three dimensions (honesty-hum...

The concept of brand personality is increasingly applied to the contemporary city. During ‘Troubles’, Belfast – as a ‘pariah city’ was contaminated with sclerotic image. Recently it has been rebranded ‘post-conflict’ and ‘energised’ This paper reveals significant image transformation in its recent engagement city personality. Despite progress on destination identity, problems remain regard Belf...

The psychophysiological correlates of psychopathic traits in normal-range samples have been a topic of recent interest in studies of the biological basis of personality. It is well established that psychopaths demonstrate abnormal patterns of startle potentiation while viewing emotionally evocative pictures, but this effect has not been demonstrated using pictures of facial affect. Recent resea...

In a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment, expectancy cues signaling emotional stimuli were used to study the personality trait of novelty seeking. BOLD responses to emotional expectancy were positively correlated with novelty-seeking scores in the medial prefrontal cortex. This correlation was strongest for the sub-dimension of exploratory excitability.

Whether one is in one's native culture or abroad, one's personality can differ markedly from the personalities of the majority, thus failing to match the "cultural norm." Our studies examined how the interaction of individual- and cultural-level personality affects people's self-esteem and well-being. We propose a person-culture match hypothesis that predicts that when a person's personality ma...