• Personality factors influence academic performance. Education university students have sedentary lifestyle habits. BMI impacts on students' lifestyle. Academic performance is modulated by cognitive factors, dietary and styles. The aim of this study was the effect different perceptual, psychological, behavioural in students. A total 172 (23.5 ± 5.4 years) were recruited. Physical activity patt...

Abstract To date, characteristics of the internet “troll” have largely been explored in general community samples, which may lack representation sample interest. In this brief report, we aimed to evidence role gender and personality traits sadism, psychopathy, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness a individuals who self-report having perpetrating trolling behaviours. Participants ( N =...

This paper uses the Five-Factor Model of personality structure as a comprehensive organizing framework to analyze the effects of personality on earnings. Using data from a longitudinal survey of American high school graduates, we find that extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience are rewarded/penalized significantly and differentially across genders...

Research shows consistent relations between personality and job performance. In this study the authors develop and test a model of job performance that examines the mediating effects of cognitive-motivational work orientations on the relationships between personality traits and performance in a sales job (N = 164). Covariance structural analyses revealed proximal motivational variables to be in...

The authors examined how conciliatory gestures exhibited in response to interpersonal transgressions influence forgiveness and feelings of friendship with the transgressor. In Study 1, 163 undergraduates who had recently been harmed were examined longitudinally. Conciliatory gestures exhibited by transgressors predicted higher rates of forgiveness over 21 days, and this relationship was mediate...

INTRODUCTION Physicians experienced in the treatment of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) occasionally describe these patients as "nice" persons. METHODS ALS experienced physicians (n = 36) were asked to assess the personality characteristics of ALS patients using a multidimensional personality questionnaire based on the five-factor model of personality. Control groups consist...