Consistency and change in personality were analyzed by examining personality types across adulthood and old age using data from 2 nationally representative panel studies from Germany (N = 14,718; 16-82 years) and Australia (N = 8,315; 15-79 years). In both samples, the Big Five personality traits were measured twice across a period of 4 years. Latent profile analyses and latent profile transiti...

Controversy surrounds the contention that certain psychological factors correlate highly with cancer and coronary heart disease (CHD). This study provides further empirical evidence on this issue. Special consideration is given to GrossarthMaticek’s theory of personality types, according to which Type 1 personalities are more susceptible to cancer and Type 2 personalities to CHD. h total of 185...

An English translation of the Differentiation and Self-regulation extension scales has been used in conjunction with a reduced form of the Short Interpersonal Reactions Inventory (SIRI) in a sample of 2844 Australian twins aged over 50. Significant correlation was found between Type 1 (cancer-prone) and Type 2 (coronary heart disease prone), and between Self-regulation and Type 4 (healthy). The...

While an individual’s personality is related to his or her well-being, little research has examined kindergarten teachers’ personality. This research was the first to investigate Hong Kong kindergarten teachers’ personality types using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Three hundred and seventy-one kindergarten teachers voluntarily responded to the MBTI. Findings showed that Hong Kong kin...

In recent years, language learning research has been paying more attention to the factors that may  affect  the  choice  by  language  learners  of  language  learning  strategies  in  general  and writing strategies in particular to enhance their own learning. Given the socio-cognitive nature of  the  act  of  writing,  as  Roca  de  Larios  et  al.  (2002)  note,  both  writer-internal  and  ...

“Does placing workers together based on their personality give better performance results in cooperative crowdsourcing settings, compared to non-personality based crowd team formation?” In this work we examine the impact of personality compatibility on the effectiveness of crowdsourced team work. Using a personality-based group dynamics approach, we examine two main types of personality combina...

We examined change and stability of the 3 personality types identified by Block and Block (1980) and studied their links with adjustment and relationships. We used data from a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents, thereby covering the ages of 12-20 years. In Study 1, systematic evidence for personality change was found, in that the number of overcontrollers and...