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View article: Organisational Disenchantment, Enchantment and Counterproductive Work Behaviour
Organisational Disenchantment, Enchantment and Counterproductive Work Behaviour Open
The objective of this study was to examine the incremental validity of measures of Organisational Disenchantment and Enchantment over demographic, personality, burnout and workaholism factors in explaining Counterproductive Work Behaviours…
View article: Parental social status, parent–child relationship quality, and maternal trait emotional stability as predictors of children’s cognitive ability at age 7 years: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
Parental social status, parent–child relationship quality, and maternal trait emotional stability as predictors of children’s cognitive ability at age 7 years: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Open
This study explored a longitudinal dataset of 10,663 children (50% girls) to examine a set of psychological and socio-demographic factors that influenced children's cognitive ability (intelligence test scores) at the age of 7 years, using …
View article: Correlates of Parenting Style: Findings From the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)
Correlates of Parenting Style: Findings From the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) Open
This study explored a longitudinal data-base that assessed a set of psychological and socio-demographic factors associated with parenting styles in a sample of 1,053 parents (55% mothers) with a mean age of 41.2 years ( SD = 6.7) who had c…
View article: The proactive personality: bright-side trait correlates
The proactive personality: bright-side trait correlates Open
This study set out to establish to what extent demographic, ideological, self-esteem and work-related personality traits are correlated with the Proactive Personality (PP)? In all, 389 working adults completed a number of questionnaires in…
View article: Who's Interested in Global Warming?
Who's Interested in Global Warming? Open
We report on a study of the correlates of attitude to global warming (GW). We build on prior research on the role of demographic variables, personality, and political orientation in predicting attitude to GW. We argue dispositional optimis…
View article: No differentiation of personality by intelligence: consistently unidimensional factors’ variances and internal consistencies do not differ by intelligence
No differentiation of personality by intelligence: consistently unidimensional factors’ variances and internal consistencies do not differ by intelligence Open
We tested the Differentiation of Personality by Intelligence (DPI) Hypothesis and overcame two limitations of prior studies. Prior studies typically examine personality across groups created by splitting the sample using the median/tertile…
View article: Measuring Money Attitudes and Beliefs
Measuring Money Attitudes and Beliefs Open
Over the last 50 years, there have been many attempts to devise and validate questionnaires to assess an individual’s attitude toward money and related issues. This paper attempts to conduct a comprehensive review of those measures. In all…
View article: Correlates of Ethical Investing and the Issue of Sustainability
Correlates of Ethical Investing and the Issue of Sustainability Open
This paper was concerned with individual difference correlates of preferences for three issues associated with ethical investing. Five hundred adults completed a long, 60-item, questionnaire concerning personal details, including demograph…
View article: Personality and good business judgement: the bright and dark side of business reasoning
Personality and good business judgement: the bright and dark side of business reasoning Open
The current study explored the relationship between measures of “bright-side” and “dark-side” personality traits and business reasoning (BR)/judgment using the Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory (HBRI). Participants were a global sample ( …
View article: The influence of idealised and non-idealised models on the effectiveness of advertisements and body appreciation in females
The influence of idealised and non-idealised models on the effectiveness of advertisements and body appreciation in females Open
As social media advertising becomes increasingly influential, understanding the impact of different model representations on both consumer attitudes and body image is crucial. This study extends the existing literature by investigating the…
View article: Making People Redundant
Making People Redundant Open
This paper looked at the correlates of individual’s recommendations for making people redundant. Participants ranked the importance of various criteria (length of service, attendance, disciplinary/performance records) used to m…
View article: Is nature exposure in autistic adults associated with more positive body image?
Is nature exposure in autistic adults associated with more positive body image? Open
A growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to natural environments is associated with more positive body image, but such work has invariably centred the experiences of neurotypical adults and bodies. To rectify this oversight, we ex…
View article: Life satisfaction around the world: Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups
Life satisfaction around the world: Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups Open
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (B…
View article: Predicting Performance of Call Center Staff: The Role of Cognitive Ability and Emotional Intelligence
Predicting Performance of Call Center Staff: The Role of Cognitive Ability and Emotional Intelligence Open
This study examined the relationship between cognitive ability (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ) in predicting a range of different performance metrics from a call centre environment. In all, 303 call centre staff completed multi-dimens…
View article: Measuring Intelligence in 3 Min: Concurrent, Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Baddeley Reasoning Test
Measuring Intelligence in 3 Min: Concurrent, Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Baddeley Reasoning Test Open
This paper used the author's full data archive to examine the correlates of the Baddeley Reasoning Test (BRT) in six studies with a student population. The correlations between the BRT and Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT), a 12‐min, well‐est…
View article: Preferring to work from home
Preferring to work from home Open
What sort of people like to work from home (WFH)? In this study 1185 adults from different sectors and countries completed a work-related personality test (HPTI) and a self-esteem measure as well as indicating their preference for WFH. Cor…
View article: Sustainability Skepticism: Attitudes to, and Beliefs about, Climate Change
Sustainability Skepticism: Attitudes to, and Beliefs about, Climate Change Open
One of the most debated and researched aspects of environmental sustainability concerns the issue of climate change. This paper will review the literature on the individual difference correlates of climate change beliefs (CC), seen as a ce…
View article: Exposure and connectedness to natural environments: An examination of the measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups
Exposure and connectedness to natural environments: An examination of the measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups Open
Detachment from nature is contributing to the environmental crisis and reversing this trend requires detailed
\nmonitoring and targeted interventions to reconnect people to nature. Most tools measuring nature exposure and
\nattachment were…
View article: Correlates of money attitudes among <scp>Portuguese</scp> people
Correlates of money attitudes among <span>Portuguese</span> people Open
This study examined the psychometric features of the New Money Attitudes Questionnaire (NMAQ) in a Portuguese population and the relations between money attitudes, participant demographics, well‐being, and personality factors. The sample c…
View article: Religiousness and the Big Five factors in a large British sample
Religiousness and the Big Five factors in a large British sample Open
This study examined the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and religiousness in a large sample where the majority of people were not at all religious. In all, 3869 British adults recorded how religious they were and compl…
View article: Correlates of maternal Openness
Correlates of maternal Openness Open
This study explored correlates of maternal trait Openness, drawing on data from a large, nationally representative sample of children in the UK. This was collected from mothers when their children were at the age of 9 months, 3, 7, 11 and …
View article: Understanding how the presence of music in advertisements influences consumer behaviour
Understanding how the presence of music in advertisements influences consumer behaviour Open
This study investigated how consumer behaviour is influenced by music's emotional valence (sad vs. happy) in advertisements. Female participants (N = 134) watched the same four advertisements with either happy or sad background music. The …
View article: MONEY ATTITUDES, BUDGETING AND HABITS
MONEY ATTITUDES, BUDGETING AND HABITS Open
This study was concerned with the correlates of attitudes to, and habits surrounding money, particularly budgeting. It involved a secondary analysis of a representative (UK) sample of adults who completed a questionnaire that enquired into…