“…The current study used the entire brief version of the Big Five, personality factors, called the Mini Markers (Saucier, 1994). Based on past research that used neuroticism as a control variable (as discussed in Gibbons & Lee, 2019), the current study focused on the neuroticism (i.e., emotional instability) subscale of the Mini Markers. The neuroticism questionnaire asks participants to rate the extent that they believe in the accuracy of self‐descriptive adjectives (envious, fretful, jealous, moody, temperamental, touchy, relaxed, unenvious), on a 9‐point scale, ranging from 1 ( Extremely Inaccurate ) to 9 ( Extremely Accurate ).…”