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The structure of phenotypic personality traits

by Lewis R. Goldberg - American Psychologist , 1993
"... This personal historical article traces the development of the Big-Five factor structure, whose growing acceptance by personality researchers has profoundly influenced the scientific study of individual differences. The roots of this taxonomy lie in the lexical hypothesis and the insights of Sir Fra ..."
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This personal historical article traces the development of the Big-Five factor structure, whose growing acceptance by personality researchers has profoundly influenced the scientific study of individual differences. The roots of this taxonomy lie in the lexical hypothesis and the insights of Sir

The Varieties of Reference

by Jeff Evans , 1982
"... Tracing the development of concepts of affect and emotion in mathematics education (ME) research is informative for research on teaching statistics. In both areas, early research focused on more stable aspects of affect- beliefs, values and attitudes- using surveys to study dimensionality, and corre ..."
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Tracing the development of concepts of affect and emotion in mathematics education (ME) research is informative for research on teaching statistics. In both areas, early research focused on more stable aspects of affect- beliefs, values and attitudes- using surveys to study dimensionality

Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation.

by Lyn Y Abramson , Martin E P Seligman , John D Teasdale - Journal of Abnormal Psychology, , 1978
"... The learned helplessness hypothesis is criticized and reformulated. The old hypothesis, when applied to learned helplessness in humans, has two major problems: (a) It does not distinguish between cases in which outcomes are uncontrollable for all people and cases in which they are uncontrollable on ..."
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onlyfor some people (univervsal vs. personal helplessness), and (b) it does not explain when helplessness is general and when specific, or when chronic and when acute. A reformulation based on a revision of attribution theory is proposed to resolve these inadequacies. According to the reformulation, once

An inventory for measuring depression

by A. T. Beck, C. H. Ward, J. Mock M. D - Archives of General Psychiatry , 1961
"... The difficulties inherent in obtaining con-sistent and adequate diagnoses for the pur-poses of research and therapy have been pointed out by a number of authors. Pasamanick12 in a recent article viewed the low interclinician agreement on diagnosis as an indictment of the present state of psychiatry ..."
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variety of paper-and-pencil tests have been devised for the purpose of measuring specific personality traits; for example, the Depression-Elation Test, de-vised by Jasper in 1930. This report describes the development of an instrument designed to measure the behavioral manifestations of depression

The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations

by Reuben M. Baron, David A. Kenny - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 1986
"... In this article, we attempt to distinguish between the properties of moderator and mediator variables at a number of levels. First, we seek to make theorists and researchers aware of the importance of not using the terms moderator and mediator interchangeably by carefully elaborating, both conceptua ..."
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, attitudes, and personality traits. We also provide a specific compendium of analytic procedures appropriate for making the most effective use of the moderator and mediator distinction, both separately and in terms of a broader causal system that includes both moderators and mediators. The purpose

How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness

by Ada Ferrer-i-carbonell, Paul Frijters - Economic Journal , 2004
"... Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret happiness scores as cardinal and comparable across respondents, and thus run OLS regressions on happiness and changes in happiness. Economists usually assume only ordinality and have mainly used ordered latent response models, thereby not taking satis ..."
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substantially. We call for more research into the determinants of the personality traits making up these fixed-effects. The empirical economic literature on self-reported happiness, also termed life satisfaction, seems to be taking off. Whereas in the 1970s and 1980s there was only a trickle of articles

Personality and transformational and transactional leadership: A meta-analysis

by Joyce E. Bono, Timothy A. Judge - Journal of Applied Psychology , 2004
"... This study was a meta-analysis of the relationship between personality and ratings of transformational and transactional leadership behaviors. Using the 5-factor model of personality as an organizing framework, the authors accumulated 384 correlations from 26 independent studies. Personality traits ..."
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This study was a meta-analysis of the relationship between personality and ratings of transformational and transactional leadership behaviors. Using the 5-factor model of personality as an organizing framework, the authors accumulated 384 correlations from 26 independent studies. Personality traits

What is Beautiful is Good

by Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheids, Elaine Walster - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 1972
"... A person's physical appearance, along with his sexual identity, is the personal characteristic that is most obvious and accessible to others in social inter-action. The present experiment was designed to determine whether physically attractive stimulus persons, both male and female, are (a) ass ..."
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) assumed to possess more socially desirable personality traits than physically unattractive stimulus persons and (6) expected to lead better lives (e.g., be more competent husbands and wives, be more successful occupationally, etc.) than unattrac-tive stimulus persons. Sex of Subject X Sex of Stimulus

The role of category accessibility in the interpretation of information about persons: Some determinants and implications

by Thomas K. Srull, Robert S. Wyer - Journal of Perconality and Social Psycholo gy , 1979
"... Many personality trait terms can be thought of as summary labels for broad conceptual categories that are used to encode information about an individual's behavior into memory. The likelihood that a behavior is encoded in terms of a particular trait category is postulated to be a function of th ..."
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Many personality trait terms can be thought of as summary labels for broad conceptual categories that are used to encode information about an individual's behavior into memory. The likelihood that a behavior is encoded in terms of a particular trait category is postulated to be a function

Who is the entrepreneur? is the wrong question

by William B. Gartner - American Journal of Small Business , 1988
"... Entrepreneurship is the creation of organizations. What dlfterentiates entrepreneurs trom non-entrepreneurs ls that entrepreneuns create organizations, whil-e.non-entrepreneurs dc not. In behavioral approaches to the study of entrepreneurship an entre preneur is seen as a set of activlties involved ..."
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in organization creation, while in tralt approaches an entrepreneur ls a set of personality traits and characteristics. This gager argues that tralt approaches have been unfrultful and that behavioral ap proaches will be a more productive perspective for future'research in entrepreneurship. r My own personal
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