Pub Date : 2025-04-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104607
Antonio Terracciano , Martina Luchetti , Selin Karakose , Elizabeth Milad , Daisy V. Zavala , Tiia Kekäläinen , Yannick Stephan , Andre Hajek , Angelina R. Sutin
This multi-method and multi-rater study examined the association between personality and loneliness. Participants (n = 297) completed baseline self-rated and partner-rated personality traits; baseline self-rated loneliness; self-rated momentary loneliness (6444 assessments) and partner-rated daily loneliness (2139 assessments). Baseline correlations indicated that higher self and partner-rated neuroticism and lower extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness were related to higher loneliness. In multilevel modeling, self and partner-rated neuroticism and conscientiousness were generally associated with self-rated momentary loneliness and daily partner-rated loneliness, but extraversion and agreeableness had inconsistent associations. Similarly, interpersonal warmth and sociability facets were associated with dispositional loneliness but were mostly unrelated to momentary loneliness. Findings suggest that neuroticism and emotion-related facets are more relevant to momentary loneliness than sociability and other interpersonal traits.
{"title":"Personality traits and loneliness: An ecological momentary assessment study with self and partner ratings","authors":"Antonio Terracciano , Martina Luchetti , Selin Karakose , Elizabeth Milad , Daisy V. Zavala , Tiia Kekäläinen , Yannick Stephan , Andre Hajek , Angelina R. Sutin","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104607","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104607","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This multi-method and multi-rater study examined the association between personality and loneliness. Participants (n = 297) completed baseline self-rated and partner-rated personality traits; baseline self-rated loneliness; self-rated momentary loneliness (6444 assessments) and partner-rated daily loneliness (2139 assessments). Baseline correlations indicated that higher self and partner-rated neuroticism and lower extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness were related to higher loneliness. In multilevel modeling, self and partner-rated neuroticism and conscientiousness were generally associated with self-rated momentary loneliness and daily partner-rated loneliness, but extraversion and agreeableness had inconsistent associations. Similarly, interpersonal warmth and sociability facets were associated with dispositional loneliness but were mostly unrelated to momentary loneliness. Findings suggest that neuroticism and emotion-related facets are more relevant to momentary loneliness than sociability and other interpersonal traits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104607"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143891697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104606
Sandra Grinschgl , Gabriela Hofer , Aljoscha C. Neubauer
Individuals assess their cognitive abilities in different situations, however, those self-estimates are rather inaccurate. In two experiments (each N = 200), we investigated whether performance feedback improves the accuracy of self-estimates. Our participants performed cognitive tasks and estimated their abilities beforehand. One half received feedback on their performance, whereas the other half did not. Then, all participants estimated their abilities and performed each task again. Overall, performance feedback did not impact self-estimate accuracy for a variety of cognitive abilities. Interestingly, the correlations between performance ratings and performance got higher over time in both groups and for most ability domains, suggesting that practice enhances self-estimate accuracy. Thus, experience with a task and self-estimates might foster self-knowledge, rather than performance feedback.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104605
Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida , Brian Flanagan , Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen
People often disagree about whether a rule’s text or its spirit should govern its application. To what extent is this disagreement explained by personality traits? In a pre-registered, nationally representative study (N = 385), by-participant regressions revealed that, for most participants, both text and purpose exert influence over rule application. Moreover, we found confirmatory evidence that more empathic participants were more likely to rely on purpose in their rule violation judgments. We also found exploratory associations between the personality dimensions of agreeableness and extraversion and one’s propensity to rely on text or purpose. In contrast, we found no correlation between rule-based decision-making style and differences in moral foundations and need for closure.
{"title":"Trait empathy predicts a preference for the spirit of the law: Nationally representative survey evidence","authors":"Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida , Brian Flanagan , Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104605","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104605","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People often disagree about whether a rule’s text or its spirit should govern its application. To what extent is this disagreement explained by personality traits? In a pre-registered, nationally representative study (<em>N</em> = 385), by-participant regressions revealed that, for most participants, both text and purpose exert influence over rule application. Moreover, we found confirmatory evidence that more empathic participants were more likely to rely on purpose in their rule violation judgments. We also found exploratory associations between the personality dimensions of agreeableness and extraversion and one’s propensity to rely on text or purpose. In contrast, we found no correlation between rule-based decision-making style and differences in moral foundations and need for closure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104605"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143869826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-10DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104604
Theresa Leyens , Patrick Mussel , Johannes Hewig , Joeri Hofmans
This study assesses behavioral signatures (Mischel & Shoda, 1995) in Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs), which provide the opportunity to not only capture individuals’ average behavior but also evaluate their patterns of behavioral fluctuations across SJT items (i.e., “behavioral signatures”). We tested the idea that these behavioral signatures enhance the prediction of future behavior beyond mean level scores. Data were collected from 255 participants who completed a 110-item SJT, consisting of 22 items for a facet of each Big Five dimension respectively. Our findings suggest that, indeed, behavioral signatures of Openness to ideas (a facet of Openness to experience) explain unique variance in the prediction of final secondary grades in Math and German, as well as GPA.
{"title":"Evaluating the predictive validity of behavioral signatures in situational judgment tests","authors":"Theresa Leyens , Patrick Mussel , Johannes Hewig , Joeri Hofmans","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104604","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104604","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study assesses behavioral signatures (Mischel & Shoda, 1995) in Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs), which provide the opportunity to not only capture individuals’ average behavior but also evaluate their patterns of behavioral fluctuations across SJT items (i.e., “behavioral signatures”). We tested the idea that these behavioral signatures enhance the prediction of future behavior beyond mean level scores. Data were collected from 255 participants who completed a 110-item SJT, consisting of 22 items for a facet of each Big Five dimension respectively. Our findings suggest that, indeed, behavioral signatures of Openness to ideas (a facet of Openness to experience) explain unique variance in the prediction of final secondary grades in Math and German, as well as GPA.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104604"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104603
Marie Kura , Katrin Rentzsch , Amber Gayle Thalmayer
We explored Big Six personality traits and their correlates among 18-year-olds from Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa (N = 1,746). Established Big-Five and Six-inventories contain culture-specific phrasing and lack fit and measurement invariance in Africa. Using the original maker terms from diverse lexical studies used to build the HEXACO, we created new, single-term Big Six scales with good fit and measurement invariance across countries, which we used to explore concurrent and predictive associations with mental/physical health, and religiosity. Results for Honesty, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness replicated findings from North America and Europe, while Extraversion and Emotionality did not, indicating more cultural-specificity. Our method represents a middle path between imported and culture-specific personality research, a promising approach for cross-cultural research.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104597
Eleanor J. Junkins , D.A. Briley , Brian G. Ogolsky , Jaime Derringer
Power dynamics are intrinsic to interpersonal interactions. Historically, researchers studied romantic relationship power dynamics in the context of man-woman dyads, potentially confounding gender and power effects. We examined the associations among relationship satisfaction, relationship power, and individual characteristics, including dimensional assessments of gender expression and other personality and sociodemographic characteristics. We performed secondary analyses in a dataset (N = 1,750) that was diverse with respect to gender identity, sexual orientation, and relationship structure. Using complementary nonparametric statistical approaches for interactions and multilevel group analysis, we estimated the extent to which associations among key relationship features and personal characteristics vary and account for effects within- versus between-groups. Despite negligible average estimates of moderation of associations between personality traits and relationship satisfaction by relationship power, moderation was more pronounced for certain groups at certain levels of relationship power. When looking at intersectional participant groupings, there was more variation in the association with relationship satisfaction between-groups when based on identity (gender, relationship-type, SGM, assigned sex at birth) than resource indicators (age, education, leadership, SES). The findings demonstrate that person characteristics play a complex role in romantic relationships. Nonlinear models allowing composite consideration of multiple identities and sociodemographic characteristics can reveal nuanced boundaries on associations between personality, relationship power, and relationship satisfaction.
{"title":"Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships","authors":"Eleanor J. Junkins , D.A. Briley , Brian G. Ogolsky , Jaime Derringer","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104597","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104597","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Power dynamics are intrinsic to interpersonal interactions. Historically, researchers studied romantic relationship power dynamics in the context of man-woman dyads, potentially confounding gender and power effects. We examined the associations among relationship satisfaction, relationship power, and individual characteristics, including dimensional assessments of gender expression and other personality and sociodemographic characteristics. We performed secondary analyses in a dataset (<em>N</em> = 1,750) that was diverse with respect to gender identity, sexual orientation, and relationship structure. Using complementary nonparametric statistical approaches for interactions and multilevel group analysis, we estimated the extent to which associations among key relationship features and personal characteristics vary and account for effects within- versus between-groups. Despite negligible average estimates of moderation of associations between personality traits and relationship satisfaction by relationship power, moderation was more pronounced for certain groups at certain levels of relationship power. When looking at intersectional participant groupings, there was more variation in the association with relationship satisfaction between-groups when based on identity (gender, relationship-type, SGM, assigned sex at birth) than resource indicators (age, education, leadership, SES). The findings demonstrate that person characteristics play a complex role in romantic relationships. Nonlinear models allowing composite consideration of multiple identities and sociodemographic characteristics can reveal nuanced boundaries on associations between personality, relationship power, and relationship satisfaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104597"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104602
Marcus A. Harris, D. Betsy McCoach
The present study compared latent mixture modeling to machine learning classification algorithms using simulated data to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of alternative classification options for classifying individuals into a relatively low incidence (10%) personality profile. The population model specified that item responses were generated from five latent factors patterned after the Big Five. The simulation varied the number of indicators per factor, factor mean difference, factor variances, and residual item variances to evaluate ten classification techniques, including traditional and Bayesian latent class analysis (LCA), 2 class 90/10 proportion, and factor mixture models, classification trees, conditional inference trees, evolutionary trees, Ward’s hierarchical clustering, K-means, and K-medians techniques. Although classification trees generally outperformed the other techniques, none of the ten techniques resulted in high enough classification accuracy for diagnostic decision making. Classification methods with explanatory and predictive utility may not exhibit adequate diagnostic accuracy for individual decision making.
{"title":"Classify with caution: An illustrative example using mixture models and machine learning","authors":"Marcus A. Harris, D. Betsy McCoach","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104602","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104602","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study compared latent mixture modeling to machine learning classification algorithms using simulated data to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of alternative classification options for classifying individuals into a relatively low incidence (10%) personality profile. The population model specified that item responses were generated from five latent factors patterned after the Big Five. The simulation varied the number of indicators per factor, factor mean difference, factor variances, and residual item variances to evaluate ten classification techniques, including traditional and Bayesian latent class analysis (LCA), 2 class 90/10 proportion, and factor mixture models, classification trees, conditional inference trees, evolutionary trees, Ward’s hierarchical clustering, K-means, and K-medians techniques. Although classification trees generally outperformed the other techniques, none of the ten techniques resulted in high enough classification accuracy for diagnostic decision making. Classification methods with explanatory and predictive utility may not exhibit adequate diagnostic accuracy for individual decision making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104602"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143807883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104601
Patrick K. Durkee
Measuring personality traits requires that measurement methods align with intended measurands. There are two broad classes of personality trait measurands: 1) differences in patterns of behavior; and 2) differences in the underlying psychological generators of behavioral patterns. It is often unclear which of these potential measurands is the focus of a given research study, hindering evaluation of measure-measurand alignment. It is also unclear how well common measurement approaches can be expected to recover different measurands. To evaluate personality measure-measurand (mis)alignment, this study employs simulations examining the ability of different measurement approaches to recover different personality measurands. The simulations highlight challenges in capturing personality trait measurands and offer insight into assumptions researchers must explicate to bolster personality measure-measurand alignment.
{"title":"Measuring personality Traits:Simulations Exploring (Mis)Alignment between methods and measurands","authors":"Patrick K. Durkee","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104601","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104601","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Measuring personality traits requires that measurement methods align with intended measurands. There are two broad classes of personality trait measurands: 1) differences in <em>patterns</em> of behavior; and 2) differences in the underlying psychological <em>generators</em> of behavioral patterns. It is often unclear which of these potential measurands is the focus of a given research study, hindering evaluation of measure-measurand alignment. It is also unclear how well common measurement approaches can be expected to recover different measurands. To evaluate personality measure-measurand (mis)alignment, this study employs simulations examining the ability of different measurement approaches to recover different personality measurands. The simulations highlight challenges in capturing personality trait measurands and offer insight into assumptions researchers must explicate to bolster personality measure-measurand alignment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104601"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104600
Nina Reinhardt , Simon Schindler
We hypothesized a positive correlation between HEXACO Honesty-Humility (H-H) and truth bias due to higher trustworthiness expectations for people higher in H-H. We also predicted that H-H and the correct classification of truthful and deceptive messages should be uncorrelated. In three high-powered online studies conducted via Prolific, we applied classical lie-truth detection tasks. An internal meta-analysis (N = 1,484) revealed no significant effect, neither for the H-H truth-bias link, nor for the H-H detection accuracy link. We discuss the shortcomings of the present set of studies and theoretical implications for future research on the relationship between personality traits and veracity judgments, focusing on the role of variability in different measurement paradigms.
{"title":"On the relationship between honesty-humility and truth-bias","authors":"Nina Reinhardt , Simon Schindler","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104600","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We hypothesized a positive correlation between HEXACO Honesty-Humility (H-H) and truth bias due to higher trustworthiness expectations for people higher in H-H. We also predicted that H-H and the correct classification of truthful and deceptive messages should be uncorrelated. In three high-powered online studies conducted via Prolific, we applied classical lie-truth detection tasks. An internal meta-analysis (<em>N</em> = 1,484) revealed no significant effect, neither for the H-H truth-bias link, nor for the H-H detection accuracy link. We discuss the shortcomings of the present set of studies and theoretical implications for future research on the relationship between personality traits and veracity judgments, focusing on the role of variability in different measurement paradigms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104600"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104596
Richard Rau , Louisa M. Schömann , Michael P. Grosz
Socially desirable responding can impair the validity of self-report questionnaires, especially in high-stakes situations in which people are incentivized to manage the impression they make on others. The current experiment examined the context dependency of impression management. Participants (N = 231) completed the Big Five Inventory-2 twice, first honestly and then with faking-good instructions in a job or dating context. Socially desirable responding was present in both contexts but was more pronounced in the job context than in the dating context for many (but not all) Big Five domains and facets. Future research should investigate whether faking behavior differs across contexts not only under faking-good instructions but also in high-stakes situations (e.g., personnel selection or online dating).
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