BACKGROUND The role of personality as a determinant of alcohol consumption has long been debated, but prospective evidence is scarce. METHODS We performed individual participant meta-analysis to examine the association between the Five-Factor Model personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) and alcohol consumption using data fr...

BACKGROUND The amplitude of the auditory P3 event-related potential is reduced in patients with axes I and II disorders. Data regarding P3 amplitude and normal personality traits in healthy individuals have been inconsistent, however, although more extreme variants of dimensional traits such as neuroticism and extraversion are associated with psychiatric morbidity. METHODS Male subjects (n = ...

Prior research shows that perceivers can judge some traits better than others in first impressions of targets. However, questions remain about which traits perceivers naturally do infer. Here, the authors develop an account of the "agreeableness asymmetry": Although perceivers show little ability to accurately gauge target agreeableness in first impressions, they find that agreeableness is gene...

Establishing the neural bases of individual differences in personality has been an enduring topic of interest. However, while a growing literature has sought to characterize grey matter correlates of personality traits, little attention to date has been focused on regional white matter correlates of personality, especially for the personality traits agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness...

We examined relations between US early adolescents’ major personality traits and global life satisfaction (LS) and satisfaction in five specific domains (i.e., family, friends, school, self, living environment). A sample of 344 7th graders completed the Adolescent Personal Style Inventory (Lounsbury et al., 2003), which assesses the Big Five traits of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreea...

BACKGROUND The profession of pharmacy has adopted a mandate to become more patient-centred; however, significant change in this direction has not been achieved. OBJECTIVE To characterize the personality traits of hospital pharmacists in one Canadian province, to provide insights into potential barriers to practice change. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of hospital pharmacists was conducte...

UNLABELLED A recent study by Iverach et al. (Journal of Communication Disorders, 2010) compared persons who stutter with two normative samples in the context of the five-factor model of personality measured by the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Persons who stutter were characterized by higher Neuroticism, lower Conscientiousness and lower Agreeableness scores in contrast to the normative ...

Personality and marital satisfaction may help to account for the likelihood of marital infidelity. We hypothesized that people with particularly disagreeable spouses (i.e., those low on Agreeableness) and particularly unreliable spouses (i.e., those low on Conscientiousness) will be less satisfied with their marriage, leading them to estimate a higher probability of becoming extramaritally invo...

A surge in longitudinal personality research has yielded insights into how our personalities change over life stages. Very little of this research, however, employed the HEXACO model personality, and thus is known about life-course of, especially, honesty-humility dimension, nor psychometric properties inventories. In study, we investigate stability two years among three dimensions (honesty-hum...

In a 9 year longitudinal study over childhood, the Big Five personality traits were assessed at ages 4–6 by teacher Q-sorts, at age 10 by parental Q-sorts, and at age 12 by parental and friend ratings on bipolar adjective scales. The Big Five Q-sort indices were based on definitions proposed by John, Caspi, Robins, Moffitt, and Stouthamer-Loeber (1994) for adolescent boys. They were related to ...