Summary: The experimental research on the physical attractiveness stereotype shows that more favorably personality traits are ascribed to attractive than to unattractive targets. Yet, the correlational literature found only small relationships between ...
Abstract: One hundred and twenty-six expatriate managers of a large global-operating German company participated in a cross-sectional questionnaire study. Traditionally, personality traits and socio-demographic data have been used as predictors for ...
Zusammenfassung: Der Gießen-Test wurde erstmals an einer bevölkerungsrepräsentativen Befragung im November 1994 in den alten und neuen Bundesländern normiert. Die Normwerte der Skalen und Items werden mitgeteilt, auch geschlechtsgetrennt und nach ...
Summary: The assessment of functional genetic polymorphisms allows to investigate the significance of such polymorphisms in explaining some proportion of the heritable component observed for several personality dimensions. Recent studies point to ...
Summary: Several theories concerning the biological basis of personality emphasize the involvement of neurotransmitter systems. One of these transmitters is serotonin. The present paper summarizes some of the recent findings concerning personality and ...
Summary: Personal optimism represents the positive expectations concerning one's own person whereas social optimism includes the expectations concerning the person's environment. Items for the assessment of personal and social optimism were submitted to ...
Zusammenfassung: Im Rahmen einer realen Personalauswahlsituation wurden die Persönlichkeitsmerkmale von 1955 Polizisten gemessen, die von der unteren Hierarchieebene des Polizeidienstes in die mittlere Ebene aufsteigen wollen. Zum Einsatz kam dabei eine ...
Subjective Appropriateness of Items and the Validity of Personality QuestionnairesSummary: The present study evaluates the impact of the perceived subjective appropriateness of items on the validity of personality questionnaires. 125 participants of both ...
Prediction of University Students' Performance - Configurative or Linear Additive?Abstract: In the process of evaluating the study choice counseling program of the University of Linz (Austria) running for ten years now, we expected that configural ...
Summary: Psychological variables play a prominent role when it comes to the course and outcome of geriatric rehabilitation, but empirical research is rare in this regard. In the present work, N = 90 older adults (M = 78.8; 84 % women) were assessed before ...
Controlling for Confounding Factors in Studies of Age-Effects on Self-Reported Sleep ParametersAbstract: Self-report data on sleep in elderly persons are influenced by age-dependent, age-associated, and age-independent factors. This study seeks to test ...
Zusammenfassung: Persönlichkeit und differentiellpsychologische Unterschiede werden verstanden als Form der Arbeitsweise eines kognitiven Systems. Dabei wird Persönlichkeit zurückgeführt auf Prozesse und Strukturen der Informationsverarbeitung. Das ...
Behavior Observations in Dyadic Interactions: The German Version of the Riverside Behavioral Q-Sort (RBQ-D)Abstract: We present the German version of the Riverside Behavioral Q-Sort (RBQ; Funder, Furr & Colvin, 2000), an instrument for behavioral ...
Workaholism: Personality Factors and Conditions of Professional WorkAbstract.Question: The need for excessive work, also known as “workaholism”, is a serious health problem in our society. In this study, we ...
Abstract. The present study aims at comparing the predictive power of motivation and broad personality traits for school performance and contributes to an understanding of the nomological network of personality. A sample of German adolescent students (N = ...
Assessing Science-Related Beliefs at Upper Secondary and College Level: A Validation Study of the FREE QuestionnaireThis paper presents an extended validation of a German questionnaire recently devised to measure the developmental level of ...
Cognitive and Psychosocial Characteristics upon Entry into Teacher Training: Are Teacher Candidates Underestimated?In public debate on the teaching profession, it is sometimes suggested that people who choose to become teachers have unfavorable cognitive ...
Emotional Exhaustion and Job Satisfaction of Beginning Teachers: The Role of Personality, Educational Experience and Professional CompetenceThe transition to work is an important phase in the process of teachers’ professional development. However, there ...