Background: Psychological characteristics affect the quality of life. This study aimed at determining the relationship between personal characteristics, internal locus of control , psychological hardiness and nurses’ quality of life. Methods: In this correlation study, 297 nurses were selected based on Curgesy and Morgan table via multistage cluster sampling among 1023 nurses of the pu...

Understanding the relationship between personality traits and e-learning autonomy can help to provide tailored environments student support. Although related literature is rich regarding learner traits, there a dearth of research exploring predictive relationship. This investigates distance education students. Data was collected using Big 5 Personality Traits e-Learning Autonomy scales from 343...

Personality is thought to affect obesity risk but before such information can be incorporated into prevention and intervention plans, robust and converging evidence concerning the most relevant personality traits is needed. We performed a meta-analysis based on individual-participant data from nine cohort studies to examine whether broad-level personality traits predict the development and pers...

Abstract A growing body of studies shows that the reasons for competing candidates to “go negative” on their opponents during elections—that is, attacking instead promoting own programs or ideas stem from strategic considerations. Yet, existing research has, at this stage, failed assess whether candidates’ personality traits also play a role. In article, we bridge gap between work in political ...

Aspects of disordered eating and personality traits, such as neuroticism, are correlated and individually heritable. We examined the phenotypic correlation between binge eating episodes and indices of personality (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and control/impulsivity). For correlations ≥|0.20|, we estimated the extent to which genetic and e...