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The Hierarchical Personality Structure of Aspiring Creative Writers
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Maslej, Marta M.; Rain, Marina; Fong, Katrina; Oatley, Keith; Mar, Raymond A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
Empirical studies of personality traits in creative writers have demonstrated mixed findings, perhaps due to issues of sampling, measurement, and the reporting of statistical information. The goal of this study is to quantify the personality structure of aspiring creative writers according to a modern hierarchal model of trait personality. A…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Personality Traits, Correlation, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Malnutrition in the First Year of Life and Personality at Age 40
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Galler, Janina R.; Bryce, Cyralene P.; Zichlin, Miriam L.; Waber, Deborah P.; Exner, Natalie; Fitzmaurice, Garrett M.; Costa, Paul T. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Early childhood malnutrition is associated with cognitive and behavioral impairment during childhood and adolescence, but studies in adulthood are limited. Methods: Using the NEO-PI-R personality inventory, we compared personality profiles at 37-43 years of age ("M" 40.3 years, "SD" 1.9) of Barbadian adults who had…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Development, Disadvantaged Environment, Personality Traits
The Mediators of Minority Ethnic Underperformance in Final Medical School Examinations
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Woolf, Katherine; McManus, I. Chris; Potts, Henry W. W.; Dacre, Jane – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: UK-trained medical students and doctors from minority ethnic groups underperform academically. It is unclear why this problem exists, which makes it dif?cult to know how to address it. Aim: To investigate whether demographic and psychological factors mediate the relationship between ethnicity and ?nal examination scores. Sample: Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Cohort Analysis, Medical Schools
Incipient Adult Personality: The NEO-PI-3 in Middle-School-Aged Children
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Costa, Paul T., Jr.; McCrae, Robert R.; Martin, Thomas A. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study administered the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3), a more readable version of an adult measure of the Five-Factor Model, to 449 boys and girls aged 12 and 13, who described themselves or a peer. Analyses of readability, reliability, factor structure, and convergent and discriminant validity suggested that the NEO-PI-3 can be…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Measurement Techniques, Test Validity, Factor Structure
Personality Differences in Attempted Suicide versus Suicide in Adults 50 Years of Age or Older
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Useda, J. David; Duberstein, Paul R.; Conner, Kenneth R.; Beckman, Anthony; Franus, Nathan; Tu, Xin; Conwell, Yeates – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
The authors tested hypotheses concerning personality differences in treatment-seeking suicide attempters (AT; n = 60) and a community sample of suicides (SU; n = 43) over age 50. On the basis of prior research, the authors hypothesized that SU would be lower in Neuroticism and Openness and higher in Conscientiousness. A 2-group (AT vs. SU)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Older Adults, Suicide, Personality Traits
Age Changes in Personality and Their Origins: Comment on Roberts, Walton, and Viechtbauer (2006)
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Costa, Paul T.; McCrae, Robert R. – Psychological Bulletin, 2006
This article presents comments on the original article "Patterns of Mean-Level Change in Personality Traits Across the Life Course: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies," by B. W. Roberts, K. W. Walton, and W. Viechtbauer. Although Roberts et al depicted the present authors as proponents of the immutability of traits, in fact we have…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Age Differences, Personality Traits, Meta Analysis