Corrigendum on: Are religions growing or declining? Self-reported religion and personality, Ibrahim Senay, Psihologija, 2022, Vol. 55(4), 415–426

Religion, Politics and Gender Equality Public Religions Revisited

Religion and the forgiving personality.

Forgiveness is a concept with deep religious roots. It is also a basic social and psychological phenomenon. In this article, we explore the links between forgiveness and religion by surveying how they are linked in the major monotheistic world religions, and how they appear to be linked empirically. In attempting to account for the current body of empirical findings, we propose four potential s...

Personality Tests: Self-Disclosures or Self-Presentations?

This study investigates whether objective self-report measures of personality are better regarded as sources of factual information about the self (i.e., as self-disclosures), or as ways to instruct others about how one is to be regarded (i.e., as self-presentations). The two per­ spectives were compared by testing the unique, divergent predictions each made about the kinds of personality varia...

Personality and Self-Reported Use of Mobile Phones for Games

Mobile phones are popular devices that may generate problems for a section of the community. A previous study using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire found that extraverts with low self-esteem reported more problems with their mobile phone use. The present study used the NEO FI and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory to predict the self reported mobile phone use of 112 participants. Multiple ...

Personality, psychological stress, and self-reported influenza symptomatology

BACKGROUND Psychological stress and negative mood have been related to increased vulnerability to influenza-like illness (ILI). This prospective study re-evaluated the predictive value of perceived stress for self-reported ILI. We additionally explored the role of the negative affectivity and social inhibition traits. METHODS In this study, 5,404 respondents from the general population were a...