Recent studies of animal personality have focused on its proximate causation and ecological and evolutionary significance in particular, but the question of its development was largely overlooked. The attributes of personality are defined as between-individual differences in behaviour, which are consistent over time (differential consistency) and contexts (contextual generality) and both can be...

Background: Communication is a necessity of social life which is very important in health care settings due to the type of work and clients. The aim of this study was determine the association between interpersonal communication skills (ICSs) and personality dimensions of nurses working in Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, 223 nurses we...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Chronic hypercortisolism in Cushing's disease (CD) has been suggested to contribute to an altered personality profile in these patients. We aimed to test this hypothesis and attempted to determine the effects of disease- and treatment-related factors that might moderate an altered personality in CD. METHODS We assessed 50 patients with CD (74% biochemically controlled) and com...

This study applied personality psychology of traditional Chinese medicine to the risk decision-making, and explored influe nce mechanism five-pattern on self-other decision-making. The Medicine Five State Personality Scale a multi-round mixed gambling game simulating risky decision- ma- king situation were used administer test 97 university stude- nts. Data analysis indicated that higher scorer...

BACKGROUND The objective was to determine whether the pattern of environmental and genetic influences on deviant personality scores differs from that observed for the normative range of personality, comparing results in adolescent and adult female twins. METHODS A sample of 2,796 female adolescent twins ascertained from birth records provided Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire data. The...

This study aims to analyze students’ mathematical problem-solving skills on the Pattern Number material in terms of Florence Littauer’s personality type. The data obtained through questionnaires, tests, and interviews were analyzed quantitatively descriptively. results analysis show that percentage abilities at each stage starting from understanding problem, making plans, implementing re-examin...

Recent studies further the development of trait-state models for vocational interests. Unlike personality, interest states were found to vary mainly below respective trait levels. This preregistered experience-sampling study (N = 217, Nobs 5,631) aimed replicate and explain why relation in interests differs from personality. We tested competing assumptions about conceptualization states. Across...

I propose that personality does not provide unique explanations for human behaviour. Two principles, accessibility as a `cognitive' principle and regulatory focus as a `motivational' principle, are used to illustrate how personality can be reconceptualized as a cross-person source of variability in the functioning of general psychological principles that have situational sources of variability ...

Psychiatric symptoms have been reported for individuals who experience chronic exposure to low levels of organic solvents. However, it is not known what proportion of such individuals experience psychiatric disorder; which specific disorders may be characteristic of this population; or whether bioaccumulation of lead contributes to the relationship between solvent exposure and psychiatric sympt...