background and objectives: studies of the relationship between personal qualities and job consequences usually find poor and inconsistent correlations. it is suggested that the reason may lie in ignorance of some modifying factors mediating such relationship. the perceived control has attracted much attention as a candidate factor. this study aimed to examine the mediating role of the perceived...

Previous findings showed the associations between each of the Big Five personality trait and adolescents' life satisfaction were different. Some traits (extraversion and neuroticism) correlated with adolescents' life satisfaction, while other traits did not have the same associations with adolescents' life satisfaction. In order to explain why the Big Five traits differed in their associations ...

aim: the aim of present study was to investigate the relationship between alexithymia construct and personality traits in university students. method: a sample of 112 undergraduate students of shahid chamran university was selected randomly and the 20-item toronto alexithymia scale and neo-ffi were administered to them. to analyze data canonical correlation analysis method was used. results: th...

background:   happiness is a concept, which due to its role in mental health, has been taken account by the researchers recently. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits, emotional intelligence and feeling happiness among students of tabriz university. methods: this study was a descriptive and analytical one. the statistical population of ...

BACKGROUND Labor pain is one of the most intense pains experienced by women. Different factors including physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, environmental, and personality-related factors are relevant to perception of childbirth pain. The negative experience of pain causes mental, psychological problems and influences the relationship between the mother and infant. Therefore, consider...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adulthood is conceptualized as originating in childhood. Despite considerable theoretical interest, little is known about how ADHD symptoms relate to normal personality traits in adults. In 6 studies, the Big Five personality dimensions were related to ADHD symptoms that adults both recalled from childhood and reported concurrently (total N = 1...

The present research examined longitudinal relations of the Big Five personality traits with three core aspects of subjective well-being: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect. Latent growth models and autoregressive models were used to analyze data from a large, nationally representative sample of 16,367 Australian residents. Concurrent and change correlations indicated that ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate relationship of social anxiety disorder symptoms with probable attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) while controlling the personality traits of neuroticism and extraversion, anxiety and depression symptoms in a sample of Turkish university students (n=455). Participants were evaluated with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Beck Anxi...