Where is the person in personality research?

Carlson, Rae

doi:10.1037/h0030469

Cited by 397 publications

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“…Although we were specifically interested in high-risk behavior, the measure can clearly be used for all behavior for which any of these three factors are thought to be at the core of the underlying motive. Furthermore, the implications of the present research extend considerably beyond risk-taking research, especially as this research answers a longstanding call for studies that move beyond the examination of college samples to examine participants' real-life behavior (Baumeister, Vohs, & Funder, 2010;Carlson, 1971;Furr, 2009). Specifically, in contrast to most studies of personality where the researcher determines the setting and the associated behavior, the present paradigm places participants' personality at the centre of their spontaneously chosen behaviors and thus provides the possibility for an intricate understanding of the link between individual differences and behavior.…”

Section: Sir Edmund Hillary Andmentioning

confidence: 88%

Great expectations: Different high-risk activities satisfy different motives.

Barlow¹,

Woodman²,

Hardy³

2013

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Research on people's motives for engaging in high-risk activities has typically been viewed through the single-focused lens of sensation seeking. We provide evidence that comprehensively challenges that view. First, we develop and confirm the structure of a 3-factor measure of motives: the Sensation Seeking, Emotion Regulation, and Agency Scale (SEAS; Study 1). We then use the SEAS to provide evidence of differential motives for 2 high-risk activities: skydiving and mountaineering. The motive for skydiving is strongly associated with sensation seeking; the motive for mountaineering is strongly associated with emotion regulation and agency but not with sensation seeking (Study 2). We also show that these conclusions cannot be drawn from existing measures of personality and sensation seeking (Study 3). Finally, individuals who are motivated by emotion regulation and agency needs also have greater expectations regarding their emotion regulation and agency. It is these greater expectations that most successfully discriminate mountaineers from skydivers and control participants (Study 4). It is concluded that researchers should no longer consider risk takers as a homogenous sensation-seeking group and that they should consider risk taking as a potential model of human endeavor. The SEAS can be used as a measure of motives for behavior whenever sensation seeking, agency, or emotion regulation is thought to be at the core of such motives, and the results are discussed in the context of encouraging personality researchers to consider the specific spontaneous behaviors that motivate different people.

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Section: Sir Edmund Hillary Andmentioning

confidence: 88%

Great expectations: Different high-risk activities satisfy different motives.

Barlow¹,

Woodman²,

Hardy³

2013

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Defining personality empirically was made easier with the Big Five factors, dimensions or traits model. Some researchers use different labels, but these are commonly studied as extraversion (versus introversion), agreeableness (versus antagonism), conscientiousness (versus indirectedness), emotional stability (versus neuroticism) and openness (versus closedness) (Carlson, 1971;Goldberg, 1990;McCrae and Costa, 1999;Norman, 1963). An extravert is typically sociable, optimistic, active and self-confident.…”

Section: Personality Traits and Perception Of Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality traits and conflict management styles in predicting job performance and conflict

Ayub

Alqurashi

Al-Yafi

et al. 2017

IJCMA

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“…Although the extent to which university undergraduate students are representative of the general population has been disputed (e.g., Carlson, 1971;Ferber, 1977) there is some evidence that results found in student populations can be generalised to other settings and samples (Browne & Brown, 1993;Locke, 1986). Furthermore, based on the findings of Gordon et al (1986) that results from student samples may be generalised to samples with similar experiences and interests, a sample of regular gamblers recruited from a university should produce similar results to a sample of regular gamblers recruited from a gambling venue.…”

Section: Use Of Appropriate Samplesmentioning

confidence: 99%