2004
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3506.2004.00279.x
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Traits and Stories: Links Between Dispositional and Narrative Features of Personality

Abstract: Dispositional traits and life narratives represent two different levels of personality that have not previously been empirically linked. The current study tested five hypotheses connecting Big-Five traits to life-narrative indices of emotional tone, theme, and structure. Students (Study 1) and adults (Study 2) completed a self-report measure of the Big-Five traits and provided extended written accounts of either ten (students) or eight (adults) key life-narrative scenes, including life high points, low points,… Show more

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“…This result corresponds to a study conducted by McAdams et al (2004). The study revealed that neuroticism was positively associated with an emotionally negative life-narrative tone (McAdams et al, 2004).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
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“…This result corresponds to a study conducted by McAdams et al (2004). The study revealed that neuroticism was positively associated with an emotionally negative life-narrative tone (McAdams et al, 2004).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Past research only explored the relationships between dispositional traits (especially Big Five personality traits) and narrative identity (McAdams et al, 2004).Although there was a study about the relationship between perfectionism, agency and communion, which suggested that perfectionists are strongly motivated by agentic concerns (Mackinnon, Sherry, & Pratt, 2013), it merely put emphasis on relationships between personality traits and the themes of life stories rather than depicted a whole picture of the life stories of perfectionist. Only in the latter situation can we have a deep understanding about these tendencies of the themes, tones and imagery of life stories.…”
Section: Life Story and Perfectionismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…53 If we focus on the relationship between CM and gender dysphoria, CM may have a causal role on the pathogenesis of gender dysphoria; however, the opposite has also been considered. 34,35,54 In particular, it has been suggested that more gender-variant children are more likely to be maltreated.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Only recently, however, have researchers begun to explore how elements of language use are related to personality (Gifford & Hine, 1994;Ireland & Mehl, in press;McAdams et al, 2004;Weintraub, 1989). Identified personality trait-word use links have generally been consistent with the theoretical trait definitions.…”
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confidence: 99%