Abstract: The present research tested the dimensionality and cross-cultural differential item functioning of the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4; Paulhus et al., 2021) in samples of university students (total N = 804) from Italy (N = 268), ...
Abstract: This research sought to test the face, construct and criterion validity, and test-retest reliability of the Adult Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (ARSQ). In Study 1, participants (n = 45) completed the ARSQ and ...
Abstract: The horror genre portrays some of the most graphic and violent scenes in media. How and why some people find enjoyment in such a graphic genre is an age-old question. One hypothesis is that people lower in prosocial traits such ...
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 ...
Abstract: The manuscript describes the construction of the German standard and short version of the EPQ-R by Eysenck and Eysenck (1991). A pilot version was administered to 2914 subjects of a large age span. A principal component analysis of the 100 items ...
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 ...
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 ...
Relationships between personality, cognitive style and Internet use were examined in a longitudinal field study. Participants were low-income African American and European American adults residing in a mid-size urban community in the United States whose ...
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 ...
Faking of Personality Measures for College Admission in Teacher EducationAbstract. Personality measures in student admission entail the question if applicants fake, i. e. distort their responses to be viewed more favorably than they actually are. This ...
The role of ability, personality, and interest in the decision between secondary school and apprenticeshipAbstract. A crucial educational decision in adolescence is whether to continue attending secondary school or to start an apprenticeship. The aim of ...
Abstract: Based on the person-environment fit theory and the dynamic self-regulatory model of narcissism, an occupational self-selection into the teaching profession is analysed. This examination consults two ...
Among the various work stress models, one of the most popular has been the job demands-control (JDC) model developed by Karasek (1979), which postulates that work-related strain is highest under work conditions characterized by high demands and low ...
The Five Factor Model (FFM), a valid model of interindividual differences in the personality of a group of people, reportedly does not always provide a good fit for the individuals of that group. In addition to intraindividual variation across a ...
Assessing problems in career decision making among adolescents is important for career guidance and research. The present study is the first to investigate among Swiss adolescents the factor structure and convergent validity in relation to personality of ...
In most Western postindustrial societies today, the population is aging, businesses are faced with global integration, and important migration flows are taking place. Increasingly work organizations are hiring crossnational and multicultural workteams. In ...
Abstract. The present study identified direct and indirect relationships between lifestyle attributes and exposure to workplace bullying (via the conflict-solving styles of problem solving, compromising, yielding, and forcing). Our results demonstrated ...
Personality disorder traits in childhood and adolescence: Concepts, methodological approaches and empirical resultsSummary:Objective: The practical and theoretical advantages of the diagnosis and classification of personality disorder traits in ...
Zusammenfassung: Persönlichkeitskorrelate der psychophysiologischen Stressreaktion bei inhaftierten Jugendlichen Fragestellung: Es war das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit, die Beziehung zwischen dem Persönlichkeitstypus nach Weinberger und ...Summary:Background: To examine the relationship between personality type and physiological response to stress among juvenile delinquents. Methods: Delinquent males (N = 42, mean age 16.5, SD = 1) recruited from a convenience sample at local juvenile ...
Epidemiological data on personality dimensions in the psychopathy of adolescent boys and girls – results of the Cologne GAP StudyObjective: This paper evaluates epidemiological data on psychopathy dimensions among adolescents. Method: The Psychopathy ...
Sex differences in the relationship between personality and social competences in adultsAbstract. The concept of social competences plays an important role in many areas of psychological acting. Social competences are the basis for socially competent ...
Interactions between work, personality and psychological health: Vulnerability and resilience factors in the development of burnout and depressive symptoms among managersAbstract. The present study examines interaction effects between premorbid ...
Personality Assessment in Online Psychotherapy ResearchAbstract. The number of evidence-based online psychotherapeutic interventions has been increasing in recent years. This raises the question whether personality ...
Eating disorder symptoms and personality: Implications for clinical assessment from a network perspectiveAbstract. Research and theory suggest that meaningful variance in the onset, clinical course, symptomatic ...
A Patient´s Personality: A Frequently Ignored but Important Component in General Medical PracticeAbstract. In general medical practice, a patient’s personality is hardly considered and assessed. In this mini-review the ...
Stability represents a fundamental concept in developmental theory and research. In this article we give an overview of recent work on personality traits and their stability in adulthood. First, we define personality traits and stability. Second, we ...
Abstract. Both theoretical reasoning and empirical data suggest that personality and well-being have substantial interrelationships. However, more longitudinal evidence is required, and the relationship lacks research attention from a lifespan ...
Abstract. We examined longitudinal associations between personality, objective (physician-rated) and self-rated health over 12 years in two German cohorts (midlife cohort, born 1950/52, nT0 = 502; late-life cohort, born 1930/32, nT0 = 500) from the ...
Abstract. Personality disorders (PDs) affect a significant portion of older adults and hinder their physical and mental health. This narrative review (1) reviews the literature on PDs in older adults and (2) presents guidelines for clinicians in ...
Abstract. Physical activity has gained importance in psychiatric and psychosomatic treatment schemes, but there is little knowledge on the use of physical activity for forensic rehabilitation, including psychosocial outcomes. A systematic review of the ...
Abstract.Introduction: Recent studies indicate high prevalences of disordered eating or eating disorders in adult athletes and a worrying increase in adolescent athletes. Although several risk factors for developing eating disorders have been identified ...
CID: Controlled Interaction Diary for the assessment of social interactions, relationships, and personality traitsAbstract. The diary procedure CID is described. All psychologically significant social interactions within a specified observation period ...
Validity and psychometric equivalence of the German version of the Big Five Inventory in young, middle-aged and old adultsAbstract. In a study with 480 young, middle-aged, and old adults the psychometric equivalence and external validity of the German ...
Personality, cancer and coronary heart disease: Fictions and facts in the etiological researchAbstract. The literature on etiological factors of cancer and coronary heart disease (CHD) indicates that personality factors are of little importance. Not more ...
Zusammenfassung. Die Untersuchung schizotyper Symptome hat sich in den vergangenen Dekaden als methodisch alternativer Zugang der Schizophrenieforschung etabliert. Entgegen der Annahme, dass die Schizotypie phäno- aber auch genotypisch spezifisch mit der ...
German version of the Temperament and Character InventoryAbstract. A short comprehensive description of the theoretical background and of the dimensions of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is given. - The scores for the internal consistency ...
Zusammenfassung. Als Folge wachsender Arbeitslosigkeit wird die Wahrscheinlichkeit, daß Menschen Arbeitstätigkeiten erhalten, die in den Persönlichkeitseigenschaften auch zu ihnen passen, eher geringer. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist die Annahme naheliegend, ...
Zusammenfassung. In neuerer Zeit wurden wiederholt Berichte über einen positiven Zusammenhang zwischen Ärgerausdruck und Serum-Lipiden bei gesunden Männern veröffentlicht. Ein solcher Zusammenhang wird als relevantes physiologisches Bindeglied bei der ...
Personality and climacteric syndrome: A study to investigate the influence of general psychological instability and the intake of a hormone replacement drug on climacteric complaintsAbstract. Previous research on menopause-related complaints ...
Intrapreneurs - trait-related similiarities and differences compared with other employees and entrepreneursAbstract. In study I trait characteristics of 44 intrapreneurs, 73 qualified employees, and 42 entrepreneurs were measured and compared. The ...
Stress reactivity: Theoretical concept and measurementAbstract. The construct of stress reactivity refers to the disposition of a person to answer stressors with immediate, intense, and long lasting stress reactions. Stress reactivity is assumed to be ...
Who risks getting a written reminder? Examining the validity of the NEO-PI-R conscientiousness scale and its facets to assess dispositional self-regulation from behavioral tracesTo what degree is NEO-PI-R conscientiousness and its facets valid scales for ...
Within the field of giftedness, “overexcitability” has recently become popular although the validity of the construct has not yet been examined comprehensively. So far, there is no psychometrically tested German questionnaire. Three studies with school ...
Factor structure, psychometric properties, and measurement invariance of the German-language version of the 60-item HEXACO Personality InventoryRecent lexical studies across several languages have provided evidence for six factors describing the ...
Short Version of the Big Five Inventory for Children and Adolescents (BFI-K KJ) – Adaptation and Validation of a German Self-Rating Inventory to Assess Basic Factors of Personality in Childhood and AdolescenceAbstract. The short version of the Big Five ...
The German Big Five Inventory 2: Measuring Five Personality Domains and 15 FacetsAbstract. The German version of the 60-item Big Five Inventory 2 (BFI-2) captures the five personality domains Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Negative ...
CAST in German: Translation and Validation of the Comprehensive Assessment of Sadistic TendenciesAbstract. Sadism predicts dysfunctional social behavior and has been extensively researched in the clinical context. Recently however, ...
SACIE, EFI-L, and KIESEL: Validity of Three Measurement Instruments to Assess Attitudes Toward InclusionAbstract. Attitudes toward inclusion are key determinants of the successful implementation of inclusive practices in schools. The present study ...
Zusammenfassung. In den demografischen Wandlungsprozessen unserer Gesellschaft liegen zahlreiche neue Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Psychologie. Die hierbei besonders angesprochene psychologische Alternsforschung sollte im Sinne einer bedeutsamen ...Psychological aging research: Contributions and perspectivesAbstract. The demographic changes that our society faces as part of the overall aging of the population provide the field of psychology with a number of challenges and opportunities. ...
Personality traits, intelligence, and success at work. A review of international and national researchAbstract. This review focuses on the role personality traits and cognitive abilities play for criteria of occupational success, i.e. job performance and ...
Zusammenfassung. Zur Frage des Stellenwerts der Persönlichkeit im Zusammenhang mit Unternehmensgründung und Unternehmenserfolg liegen zahlreiche Studien mit oft widersprüchlichen Ergebnissen vor. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird durch einen Vergleich von ...
Abstract. A new measure of the Big Five personality constructs, the Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism Index Condensed (OCEANIC), was developed and validated. In Study 1 (N = 166), the convergent validity with the Big Five ...
Experiencing age-related change in adulthood: An exploratory study based on the concept of “Awareness of Age-Related Change” (AARC)The present study used a newly developed concept and respective self-report questionnaire to assess adults’ awareness of ...
Validity of the BIP and the NEO-PI-R: How suitable are an explicitly job-oriented and a general personality test for the explanation of career success?Abstract. The present study examined the concurrent validity of an explicitly job-oriented personality ...
Learning in teams: Relationships between individual and team characteristics and the performance of multipliersThe continuous mutual transfer of knowledge and skills within work teams is increasingly important for organizational practice. According to ...
Das NEO-Fünf-Faktoren-Inventar nach Costa und McCrae (NEO-FFI, Borkenau & Ostendorf, 2007) ist ein Fragebogen zur Selbstbeschreibung und erfasst die sog. „Big Five“: Neurotizismus, Extraversion, Offenheit für Erfahrungen, Verträglichkeit und ...
The social skills inventory by Kanning (2009)The social skills inventory (ISK; Inventar Sozialer Kompetenzen) by Kanning (2009) is the first psychometric validated questionnaire to measure social skills developed in German-speaking countries. ISK can be ...
START-P: Test battery for job starters–personalitySTART-P (Beauducel & Kersting, 2010) is a psychometrically validated personality questionnaire, which was designed for job starters in consideration of DIN 33430. The instrument measures personality by ...
Intelligence, personality, income, and job performance assessments by others in social welfare jobs: A validation studySocial welfare jobs form an important segment of the German labour market. However, there are yet no empirical data on how intelligence ...
Abstract. Although personality traits have long been established as important predictors for leadership, the mechanisms that mediate the relation are relatively unclear. The present studies investigated Motivation ...
Abstract. The present study used intraindividual criterion profile analysis to investigate the relationship between creative artistic and investigative interests and the Big Five personality traits. In 19 samples, we found that artistic and investigative ...
Motivation to Lead and Leadership Development: Relevance for the Selection and Performance of ManagersAbstract. Motivation to lead (MtL) mediates the relationship between personality and leadership (Stiehl, Gatzka et al., ...
Zusammenfassung. An der Fakultät für Psychologie der Universität Wien wurden unter der Leitung von Erich Vanecek Musikwirkungsforschungen mit modernen psycho-physiologischen Methoden durchgeführt. Thomas Biegl wies Veränderungen einiger physiologischer ...
Abstract. Ten years ago a sample of N = 5.133 male and female subjects (age 28-74) responded to questionnaires including scales for personality, life style, work stress as well as questions on prevalent disease. We now report on the follow-up regarding ...
Personality and health: A twin study to examine possible mediatorsAbstract. It is well-known that health behavior (e.g., physical activity, eating habits, non-smoking) contributes to health and well-being. However, the majority of the population in ...
Compensatory health beliefs (CHBs)–beliefs that an unhealthy behavior can
be compensated for by a healthy behavior–can be distinguished into
trait and state beliefs. Trait CHBs are stable individual differences, whereas
state CHBs are activated in a ...
Motor development between early childhood and early adulthood in the context of personality developmentAbstract. The development of tested and self-perceived motor abilities was studied within the wider context of personality development in a ...
Program and Output Evaluation of an Intervention Promoting Social Self-Concept in Physical EducationAbstract. In addition to the positive effects on physical and motor development, physical education is also assumed to have a positive influence on ...
Predictors of life-long delinquency: What is the significance of early family stress, childhood delinquency and maladaptive coping styles for the differentiation of prison inmates with varying degrees of delinquency severity?Abstract.Background: The ...
Zusammenfassung.Theoretischer Hintergrund: Therapiemotivation spielt für den Verlauf und Erfolg von Behandlungsmaßnahmen eine entscheidende Rolle. Fragestellung: Deshalb wurde der Frage nachgegangen, mit welchen psychischen Merkmalen (Psychische ...
Personality style and assessment of dimensions in adolescent patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosaAbstract.Background: Personality variables can have a bidirectional relationship with eating disorder diagnoses: as risk factors for its development ...
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Das Netzwerkmodell psychischer Erkrankungen geht im Gegensatz zur Latente-Variablen-Theorie davon aus, dass psychische Erkrankungen dynamische Netzwerke von nebeneinander ...
Who reads newspapers? Factors influencing juvenile newspaper readingAbstract. In this article we introduce a study with juvenile newspaper readers and non readers. On the basis of means analysis we describe four different types of readers or non readers. ...
Development of a questionnaire to measure personal responsibility or: ”Don’t talk about it, just do it”Abstract. Personal responsibility is an important concept in society. There are several reasons why high personal responsibility is desirable in the ...
Zusammenfassung. Verschiedene Befunde weisen darauf hin, dass Mobbing-Betroffene sich in verschiedenen Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen und allgemeinen Stressverarbeitungsstrategien von Nicht-Betroffenen zu unterscheiden scheinen. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde ...
Abstract. Team personality has received much attention as organizations increasingly organize work around teams. Yet the concept of team personality in the current literature has not been well developed; typically it is considered as an extrapolation of ...
Abstract. Four studies investigating labor market influences on personality scale scores of job applicants are presented. The first three studies examined whether or not job applicants from internal vs. external labor markets scored similarly on multi-...
Abstract. The relationship between personality and salary was investigated among 4,150 managers. Individuals at five different managerial levels completed a measure of the Big Five personality dimensions as part of a work-related psychological assessment. ...
”Personality at Work” in Lüneburg - Retrospect and prospectsAbstract. This article provides a retrospective summary of a special guest edited series of articles published in Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie from 2006 to 2008 on personality at work. ...
Personality and networking: An analysis based on the interpersonal circumplexAbstract. While several studies have shown that networking, defined as building, maintaining, and using professional contacts, has a positive effect on career success, only a ...
Age-related trait-differences: Significance for reemployment of older adultsAbstract. The present study investigated a total of seven cognitive and seven non-cognitive abilities regarding age-related mean differences. Therefore, a group of unemployed ...
Abstract The acoustic startle reflex (ASR) is modulated by a number of experimental factors, the most important of which in the field of psychopathology is weak prestimulation: The ASR is reliably reduced if preceded briefly by a weaker stimulus (i. e., ...
Summary: This study presents the first Spanish version of Windle and Lerner's questionnaire “Revised Dimensions of Temperament Survey” (DOTS-R) (1986). 214 men and 480 women between 19 and 34 years of age responded to the 54 items of the DOTS-R. The ...
Summary: According to Beck's cognitive theory of depression, individuals who score high on the personality dimensions of either sociotropy or autonomy are considered to be vulnerable to depression. Although past research has provided abundant support for ...
Summary: This article shows that basic aspects of the structure of momentary affect are similar in Spanish and Canadian societies. It developed questionnaire scales in Spanish in four different formats for assessing momentary affect. Scales can be scored ...
Summary: Data are reported on the correlation between the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) and self-ratings of work performance for 889 municipal employees. Overall, CPI scores do not correlate with self-rated general or technical proficiency, or ...