Language provides an important source of information to predict human personality. However, most studies that have predicted personality traits using computational linguistic methods have focused on lexicon-based information. We investigate to what extent the performance of lexicon-based and grammarbased methods compare when predicting personality traits. We analyzed a corpus of student essays ...

BACKGROUND Workplace victimization is considered a major social stressor with significant implications for the wellbeing of employees and organizations. The aim of this study was to examine the influences of employees' personality traits and organizational politics on workplace victimization among Ghanaian employees. METHODS Using a cross-sectional design, data were collected from 631 employe...

Deficits in multiple neuropsychological domains and specific personality profiles have been observed in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this study we investigated whether personality traits are related to neurocognitive profiles in adults with ADHD. Neuropsychological performance and Five Factor Model (FFM) personality traits were measured in adults with ADHD (n = 133) and h...

BACKGROUND Cultural and personality factors might contribute to the clinical differences of psychiatric patients all over the world including China. One cultural oriented Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) designed to measure normal personality traits, might be specifically associated with different personality disorder functioning styles. METHODS We therefore have invited 20...

background: this study aimed at investigating the simple and multiple relationships between   personality traits and addic­tion potential in university students. methods: three hundred and forty two students were selected by cluster sampling from the shahid chamran university (iran). the scales used for this descriptive study were neo-ffi personality inventory and iranian addiction potential sc...

Study 1 expands upon previous research by looking at the ability of untrained raters to detect pathological traits within a normal population of college students. In Study 1, 30-s video clips of 81 target persons were shown to 42 raters. Ratings of traits of personality disorders made by thin slice raters reliably predicted scores on the personality pathology measures obtained from the targets ...

While personality traits have been linked concurrently to health status and prospectively to outcomes such as mortality, it is currently unknown whether traits predict the diagnosis of a number of specific diseases (e.g., lung disease, heart disease, and stroke) that may account for their mortality effects more generally. A sample (N 1⁄4 6,904) of participants from the Health and Retirement Stu...

Trait perspectives are dominant in the study of personality cross-culturally. We review the questions addressed by researchers who study personality traits across cultures, including, among others, whether traits are used in all cultures to understand persons and their behavior, the universality versus culture-specificity of traits, the validity of imported and indigenous measures of personalit...