the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and incidence of injury in iranian elite wrestlers. 60iranian elite athletes participated in this study. data were collected with injury report form and neo personality questionnaire. the descriptive statistics and pearson correlation coefficient at a significance level of 95% were used for data analysis...

We examined whether people’s trait increases when asked to impress others with that trait. Participants (N=422) reported their extraversion/introversion and social desirability of extraversion introversion. After 7 10 days, we them write a self-introduction gave either an extraverted or introverted impression, depending on condition. Their was measured before the self-introduction. Results indi...

This study examined the Big Five personality traits as predictors of mortality risk, and smoking as a mediator of that association. Replication was built into the fabric of our design: we used a Coordinated Analysis with 15 international datasets, representing 44,094 participants. We found that high neuroticism and low conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness were consistent predictor...

The trait theory of leadership is advanced by a joint investigation of the mediating role of (a) leadership self-efficacy (LSE = leader's perceived capabilities to perform leader roles) in linking neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness with leader effectiveness and (b) the moderating role of job demands and job autonomy in influencing the mediation. Using K. J. Preacher, D. D. Rucker,...

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) has been associated with biased processing and abnormal regulation of negative and positive information, which may result from compromised coordinated activity of prefrontal and subcortical brain regions involved in evaluating emotional information. We tested whether patients with MDD show distributed changes in functional connectivity with a set of independently...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS This study aimed at comparing adolescent abstainers, consumers and excessive drinkers in terms of family characteristics (structure of family, socioeconomic factors), perceived social support, personality characteristics (extraversion, self-esteem, aggression) and well-being. DESIGN AND METHODS Cross-sectional data were obtained from 3694 elementary school students in th...

In recent years, several studies have demonstrated efficacy of d-cycloserine (DCS) enhanced exposure therapy across anxiety disorders. In this study we examined person-level variables that predicted response to DCS enhanced exposure therapy in a chronic, mixed trauma PTSD sample. The sample consisted of 67 treatment-seeking individuals, randomly allocated to receive exposure therapy augmented w...

It is well established that social anxiety (SA) has a positive relationship with neuroticism and a negative relationship with extraversion. However, findings on the relationships between SA and agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience are mixed. In regard to facet-level personality traits, SA is negatively correlated with trust (a facet of agreeableness) and self-efficacy (a...

The relationships between personality dimensions and aspects of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenics had been reported (Ramanathan 1984 a, 1984 b, 1984 c, 1985). Particularly, extraversion was found to be associated with coping behaviour in relation to auditory hallucinations in schizophrenics (Ramanathan 1984 c). Further exploration is necessary with regard to the relation between extrave...