This paper investigates the relationship between trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) and the Big Five factors, the Big Two and the Big One (i.e., General Factor of Personality; GFP). Comprehensive measures of trait EI (TEIQue) and the Big Five (NEO-PI-R) were applied to a sample of 289 university students (170 female). As expected by the trait EI theory, part of the construct’s variance was...

Background: Substance dependence has recently turned into one of the most important social problems. Clinical findings have shown personality traits, social relations, attitudes and values, along with emotional intelligence factors such as emotions, feelings, emotions management, challenging with problems, problem solving, tolerating psychological pressure, impulse control, self esteem and inte...

research has consistently indicated that worker turnover intentions are factors external to an employee; however, little work has investigated turnover intention behavior from personality perspective in a context of a private university in a low resourced country like uganda.  the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of individual personality dimensions and job turnover intention...

AIM To explore associations among breastfeeding duration, maternal personality and maternal attitudes and experiences of breastfeeding. BACKGROUND Understanding influences on breastfeeding initiation and duration is critical to increasing breastfeeding rates and supporting new mothers. Maternal characteristics such as self-efficacy, knowledge and confidence are known to enable women to breast...

Emotional intelligence (EI), personality, alexithymia, life satisfaction, social support and health related measures were assessed in Canadian (N =500) and Scottish (N = 204) groups. EI was found to be negatively associated with alexithymia and alcohol consumption and positively associated with life satisfaction and social network size and quality. In order to clarify the multivariate associati...

This study examined long-term personality trait development in midlife and explored the impact of psychological turning points on personality change. Self-defined psychological turning points reflect major changes in the ways people think or feel about an important part of their life, such as work, family, and beliefs about themselves and about the world. This study used longitudinal data from ...

This study investigates the employee-employer relationship, focusing specifically on trust. The trust building relationship is investigated by exploring the current perspective on trust, the elements of trust and the role of a five-factor model on personality (conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, resourcefulness and extraversion) and managerial practices (credibility, group ma...

This study investigated if the linkages between trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) and the Five-Factor Model of personality were invariant between men and women. Five English-speaking samples (N = 307-685) of mostly undergraduate students each completed a different measure of the Big Five personality traits and either the full form or short form of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Question...

The thesis of these volumes is that the study of personality traits has advanced towards " normal science " in the sense of a Kuhnian paradigm (cf. Eysenck, 1981; Kuhn, 1962). That is, most researchers in this area share a set of common core beliefs supported by empirical evidence. These include the stability of traits over time, a significant genetic and biological influence on personality, an...