abstract background: administration of quality care in the aged people requires having a positive attitude toward them. numerous factors including nurses’ personality characteristics may play a role in their attitude toward the aged people. therefore, the present study investigated the association between nurses’ personality characteristics and their attitude toward the aged people. materials a...

BACKGROUND Personality factors have been implicated in seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The present study investigated the relationship between the five-factor model of personality (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness) and SAD. METHODS Ninety-five patients with SAD completed personality measures before and after treatment in a clinical trial and during the ...

A developmental research of the relationship between the Big-Five and speed of information processing (SIP) was conducted with the aim of considering the personality-intelligence relationship. Personality dimensions were assessed by International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) questionnaire, while SIP and related test errors (Er-SIP) were assessed by Cognitive Abilities (KS2-2) pencil and paper p...

This research investigates the influence of individual personality on perception of brand personality when information is processed from advertisement. An experiment was designed to investigate the role of individual personality and personal relevance in moderating the relationship between advertising and brand personality perceptions. Results reveal that advertising or communication program pl...

Why regularities in personality can be described with particular dimensions is a basic question in differential psychology. Nonhuman primates can also be characterized in terms of personality structure. Comparative approaches can help reveal phylogenetic constraints and social and ecological patterns associated with the presence or absence of specific personality dimensions. We sought to determ...

Broad personality traits may be important predictors of health behavior patterns. Two studies are reported which examined the associations between five major personality dimensions and four major health behavior dimensions. Prior associations between health behaviors and neurotic and extraverted personality tendencies generally were replicated. However, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness, two ...

Two hundred twenty-four first-degree relatives of patients with psychotic disorders were administered the Structured Interview for DSM-III Personality Disorders (SIDP) and completed a self-report instrument to assess dimensions of the five-factor model of personality. All of the DSM-III personality disorders were related to one or more dimensions of the five personality factors; however, the co...