Pub Date : 2025-02-12DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113102
Yasutaka Ojio , Masaki Nishida
Alexithymia, characterized by difficulties in identifying and expressing emotions, is notably prevalent among athletes. Inspired by a recent study (Graham et al., 2025), this perspective examines its role in mental health challenges, emphasizing barriers to help-seeking. Individuals with alexithymia face an increased risk of mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety. Integrating insights from related disciplines, we highlight the urgent need for culturally sensitive, technology-driven interventions tailored to athletes. These approaches hold promise for addressing unique challenges and promoting the mental well-being.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113089
Manuel Galán , David Pineda , Pilar Rico-Bordera , Jose A. Piqueras , Peter Muris
Extensive literature connects the Dark personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism—with antisocial behaviours, but less is known about the origins of these traits. This study examines the relations between childhood abuse and Dark Tetrad traits. A cross-sectional retrospective research design was used involving a sample of 372 non-clinical adult participants who completed self-report measures assessing non-violent and violent parental discipline tactics and the Dark Tetrad traits. Correlations showed that all parental discipline tactics were positively related to Dark Tetrad traits. Regression analyses revealed that psychological aggression uniquely and positively predicted psychopathy and sadism, while severe assault emerged as a unique positive predictor of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. Nonviolent discipline and corporal punishment or minor assault did not make a significant contribution to any of the dark traits. In conclusion, these findings suggest a modest but significant role of an adverse childhood environment in shaping dark personality traits.
{"title":"Dark childhood, dark personality: Relations between experiences of child abuse and dark tetrad traits","authors":"Manuel Galán , David Pineda , Pilar Rico-Bordera , Jose A. Piqueras , Peter Muris","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extensive literature connects the Dark personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism—with antisocial behaviours, but less is known about the origins of these traits. This study examines the relations between childhood abuse and Dark Tetrad traits. A cross-sectional retrospective research design was used involving a sample of 372 non-clinical adult participants who completed self-report measures assessing non-violent and violent parental discipline tactics and the Dark Tetrad traits. Correlations showed that all parental discipline tactics were positively related to Dark Tetrad traits. Regression analyses revealed that psychological aggression uniquely and positively predicted psychopathy and sadism, while severe assault emerged as a unique positive predictor of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. Nonviolent discipline and corporal punishment or minor assault did not make a significant contribution to any of the dark traits. In conclusion, these findings suggest a modest but significant role of an adverse childhood environment in shaping dark personality traits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113089"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143378427","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 : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113101
Amy Y.C. Chan, Peter Caputi, Angela du Bois
Research on counterfactual thinking (thinking about ‘what might have been’) identifies that people vary in the direction and focus of their imagined alternatives to past events. Diverse methods exist to assess individual differences in such thinking. Extant psychometric assessments of counterfactual thinking contribute to knowledge about relationships between certain forms of upward and downward counterfactual thoughts and relevant psychosocial outcomes. In this article, we raise principled concerns for a more balanced investigation of self-referent, other-referent, and nonreferent forms of both upward and downward counterfactual thinking. Specifically, we propose that one avenue of investigation is to expand upon existing scale-based measures to facilitate self-reports of different types of upward and downward counterfactual thoughts with equal emphasis.
{"title":"Individual differences in upward and downward counterfactual thinking: Assessment considerations","authors":"Amy Y.C. Chan, Peter Caputi, Angela du Bois","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on counterfactual thinking (thinking about ‘what might have been’) identifies that people vary in the direction and focus of their imagined alternatives to past events. Diverse methods exist to assess individual differences in such thinking. Extant psychometric assessments of counterfactual thinking contribute to knowledge about relationships between certain forms of upward and downward counterfactual thoughts and relevant psychosocial outcomes. In this article, we raise principled concerns for a more balanced investigation of self-referent, other-referent, and nonreferent forms of both upward and downward counterfactual thinking. Specifically, we propose that one avenue of investigation is to expand upon existing scale-based measures to facilitate self-reports of different types of upward and downward counterfactual thoughts with equal emphasis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113101"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143387165","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 : 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2024.113028
Helen Fischer , Astrid Kause , Markus Huff
Intellectual humility is increasingly recognized as a cognitive virtue that helps foster truth-seeking and compromise, and mitigating polarization. Yet the current body of evidence grapples with a striking contradiction: The prevailing theoretical account suggests that intellectual humility hinges on metacognitive ability—the capacity to introspect on one's own performance which manifests in assigning due confidence to the varying accuracy of one's performance. However, empirical research testing this metacognitive ability account of intellectual humility has yielded inconsistent results. Here, we introduce a cognitive science approach informed by Signal Detection Theory, allowing for a more nuanced separation of metacognitive ability from correlated but distinct concepts (i.e., confidence and task performance). We conduct a national survey study among a national US sample (N = 999) involving the interpretation of one of the most heavily contested domains—climate change—lending itself for an investigation into how intellectual humility relates to cognitive processes in domains where it is most needed. To gauge participants' ability to distinguish true from false interpretations of evidence (i.e., task performance), we presented them with four summaries of fictitious studies on renewable energy, followed by 2-alternative forced choice questions that assessed their accuracy and confidence in their responses. Results showed that firstly, more intellectually humble citizens performed better at discerning correct from incorrect interpretations of the presented evidence. Secondly, more intellectually humble citizens exhibited a heightened capacity to adjust their confidence levels to the varying accuracy of their evidence interpretations–indicating higher metacognitive ability—and this association was robust to accounting for their superior task performance, and other preregistered covariates. And thirdly, in contrast to intuitive notions, more intellectually humble citizens did not exhibit lower metacognitive bias, the inclination to report lower (vs. higher) confidence in general. By highlighting the role of metacognitive ability in intellectual humility, the current study delivers empirical evidence for the ancient notion that epistemic virtues may involve metacognitive ability.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113094
Sunkyung Yoon , Yunsu Kim , Heejoo Kim , Nagyeom Yang
The literature on beliefs about emotions has primarily addressed malleability beliefs (i.e., beliefs that emotions can change), but beliefs about the longevity of emotions (i.e., beliefs about the persistence of emotions) have emerged as significant factors related to emotional distress. This research investigated which specific longevity beliefs about emotions are most closely associated with depressive symptoms (Studies 1 and 2) and whether longevity beliefs predict greater persistence of depressive affect in daily life (emotional inertia) in Study 3. Study 1, involving female U.S. college students (n = 73), found that explicit longevity beliefs about depressive affect significantly predicted higher depressive symptoms, even after accounting for other longevity beliefs and current affect. Study 2, with U.S. adult residents (n = 232), showed that explicit longevity beliefs about depressive affect (but not about positive affect) predicted increased depressive symptoms, after controlling for malleability beliefs. Study 3 demonstrated that female South Korean college students with depressive disorders (n = 50) who believed depressive affect lasts longer experienced higher emotional inertia in daily life. These findings highlight the importance of examining longevity beliefs about emotions, especially depressive affect, in understanding depression.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113090
Marco Salvati
An increasing amount of literature on dispositional mindfulness has focused on several positive outcomes, such as psychological well-being, stress reduction, improved quality of life, and reduced levels of stereotypes and prejudices. At the same time, recently, a large corpus of studies focused on antecedents and potential negative consequences of conspiracy beliefs, which increasingly affect our societies. However, no previous study explored the relationships between people's dispositional mindfulness and their adherence to conspiracy beliefs. The current research conducted on 299 Italian participants contributes to filling this gap, hypothesizing that higher dispositional mindfulness would be associated with lower adherence to generic conspiracy beliefs, via lower levels of conspiracy mentality. Thus, a mediational path model was tested. The results confirmed the expectations, showing that the more people reported higher dispositional mindfulness, the less they reported conspiracy mentality, which in turn was associated with lower levels of adherence to generic conspiracy beliefs. This study provided a preliminary empirical basis for future research and interventions, proposing itself to be a relevant first step in investigating mindfulness-based interventions as preventive tools to counteract the increasing conspiracy beliefs in our contemporary societies.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113093
Junwei Pu, Xiong Gan
While previous research has highlighted the effects of parental psychological control (PPC) on children's maladaptive development, this study adopts the intergenerational transmission framework to explore the potential influence of PPC on the development of children's personality traits, particularly Dark Triad traits (DT), from the perspective of family processes. Based on a combination of cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches, this study aims to explore the potential link between PPC and the development of DT traits in children through two sub-studies, aiming to uncover the underlying psychological mechanisms. The chain mediation model in Study 1 suggested that excessive PPC is significantly associated with higher levels of DT traits in children, with this relationship being mediated by alienation and peer conflicts. The RI-CLPM in Study 2 further revealed that early parental psychological control may predict the continued development of DT traits over time, and teachers' emotional support may serve as a buffering factor in this longitudinal process. These conclusions offer new insights into the complex dynamics between parents and their offspring, highlighting that, at times, love can also act as a form of constraint.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113085
Alexia Zalaf, Menelaos Apostolou
This study investigates the interrelationships between animal abuse proclivity, personality and moral disengagement to enhance our understanding animal abuse. A total of 201 participants were employed to examine these dimensions, with ages ranging from 18 to 81 years. Both Greek and English language versions of the measures were available for participants to choose. A path analysis indicated that higher moral disengagement was a significant predictor of animal abuse proclivity. Specifically, moral disengagement was associated with higher scores on the Animal Abuse Proclivity Scale (AAPS) subscales of Thrill and Power. Low Extraversion and low Intellect predicted higher scores on the Power and Thrill subscales, respectively, offering new insights into the complex role of these personality dimensions. Further, moral disengagement was predicted by lower Agreeableness and higher Neuroticism. The findings suggest that personality traits and moral disengagement are intricately linked to animal abuse proclivity, with distinct subscales of the AAPS providing deeper understanding. The study highlights the need for intervention programs focusing on enhancing empathy and moral reasoning to prevent animal abuse. These insights could inform societal and policy efforts towards reducing animal abuse and promoting more humane treatment of animals.
{"title":"Examining animal abuse proclivity: The roles of personality traits and moral disengagement","authors":"Alexia Zalaf, Menelaos Apostolou","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113085","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the interrelationships between animal abuse proclivity, personality and moral disengagement to enhance our understanding animal abuse. A total of 201 participants were employed to examine these dimensions, with ages ranging from 18 to 81 years. Both Greek and English language versions of the measures were available for participants to choose. A path analysis indicated that higher moral disengagement was a significant predictor of animal abuse proclivity. Specifically, moral disengagement was associated with higher scores on the Animal Abuse Proclivity Scale (AAPS) subscales of Thrill and Power. Low Extraversion and low Intellect predicted higher scores on the Power and Thrill subscales, respectively, offering new insights into the complex role of these personality dimensions. Further, moral disengagement was predicted by lower Agreeableness and higher Neuroticism. The findings suggest that personality traits and moral disengagement are intricately linked to animal abuse proclivity, with distinct subscales of the AAPS providing deeper understanding. The study highlights the need for intervention programs focusing on enhancing empathy and moral reasoning to prevent animal abuse. These insights could inform societal and policy efforts towards reducing animal abuse and promoting more humane treatment of animals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113085"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143372514","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 : 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113087
Angelina R. Sutin , Martina Luchetti , Selin Karakose , Yannick Stephan , André Hajek , Antonio Terracciano
Recent theoretical and empirical advances in purpose in life indicate a state component to feeling purposeful. This study used a micro-longitudinal study to identify person (age, sex, race, education), temporal (day in study, time of day, weekend), and broad (at work, with others) and specific (e.g., eating/drinking, shopping) contextual factors associated with momentary feelings of purpose. Participants (N = 303; age range 40–70) reported their momentary purpose three times a day for eight days and what they were doing at the time of the alert for the survey. Relatively older participants (b = 0.36, SE = 0.13, p = .007) reported more momentary purpose compared to relatively younger participants. Participants reported more purpose in the afternoon (b = 2.18, SE = 0.62, p < .001) and less purpose on weekends (b = −1.37, SE = 0.62, p = .027). The broad contextual factors were associated with purpose: Participants reported being more purpose-driven at work (b = 9.30, SE = 0.71, p < .001) or with others (b = 2.15, SE = 0.57, p < .001) compared to not at work or alone, respectively. Specific contextual factors were associated with feeling more purpose-driven (e.g., caregiving b = 14.17, SE = 1.99, p < .001; exercising b = 15.59, SE = 1.65, p < .001), except leisure activities, which were associated with less purpose (b = −4.76, SE = 0.99, p < .001). Feeling purposeful varies across moments and is sensitive to time of day, location, and activities engaged in.
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