The Internet has become an essential platform for communication and a vital approach to accessing information in people's daily life. Exploring the antecedents and outcomes of Internet acceptance ...from the psychological and emotional perspectives remains an area that warrants further investigation. This article constructs and empirically tests a comprehensive research framework, namely the emotional-TAM (E-TAM). This model is tested with data collected from 615 Internet users in the United States. The findings indicate that Internet acceptance is related to social inclusion and the fulfilment of three types of psychological needs derived from Self-Determination Theory. The continuance intention of using the Internet significantly relates to the users' degree of well-being, perceived value, and four categories of emotions. A number of significant moderating effects were also found.
•Explored the psychological and emotional antecedents and outcomes of Internet acceptance.•Internet acceptance related to social inclusion.•Internet acceptance was also found to relate psychological needs derived from SDT.•Continued Internet usage related to well-being, perceived value.•Continued Internet usage was also found to relate to four categories of emotions.
The dark triad and knowledge hiding Pan, Wei; Zhang, Qingpu; Teo, Thompson S.H. ...
International journal of information management,
October 2018, 2018-10-00, 20181001, Letnik:
42
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•A moderated mediation model of knowledge hiding is proposed and tested.•Transactional psychological contract mediates the relationship between the dark triad and knowledge hiding.•Gender moderates ...the relationships between narcissism and psychopathy with transactional psychological contract.•The indirect relationships between narcissism and psychopathy with knowledge hiding via transactional psychological contract are stronger for men than for women.
By drawing on psychological contract theory, this study examined the effects of the dark triad of personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) on knowledge hiding within organizations. We obtained 251 matched-pair data from respondents in a manufacturing company. Results showed that all three dimensions of the dark triad were positively related to knowledge hiding through transactional psychological contract. Different dimensions of the dark triad were most strongly related to different knowledge hiding strategies. Furthermore, gender moderated the relationships between narcissism and psychopathy with transactional psychological contract. The indirect relationships between narcissism and psychopathy with knowledge hiding via transactional psychological contract were stronger for men than women.
Reviewing the past literatures, there is no relevant research to explore the factors that influence consumers impulsive buying behaviors in the situations of large international travel shows. This ...study proposed three dimensions categorizing the motivators of impulse buying (IB) based on Behavioral Perspective Model, namely "internal stimuli, external stimuli, and product value, including 9 motivators. Through the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process analysis, the results are as follow. (1) The two dimensions, internal stimuli and product value have higher importance than external stimuli. (2) Among the IB groups with high and low impulsive personality traits, the " external stimuli " clue was the most affected in the two groups. For susceptibility to interpersonal influence, those with low interpersonal influence are most affected by internal stimuli cues; those with high interpersonal influence are most affected by product value. Finally, whether IBs are utilitarian or entertainment oriented customers, they are
The dark side of personality at work Spain, Seth M.; Harms, Peter; LeBreton, James M.
Journal of organizational behavior,
February 2014, Letnik:
35, Številka:
S1
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Although there has been increasing interest in dark personality traits in the organizational sciences, these characteristics remain relatively understudied and somewhat misunderstood. The present ...manuscript aims to clarify some of the issues surrounding dark personality traits by discussing the history of dark personality traits, how they relate to normal personality traits, their relative importance as determinants of organizational outcomes, and measurement issues surrounding the assessment of these characteristics. We will then discuss potential future directions for research investigating the causes and consequences of these traits as well as providing guidance on the implementation of dark personality assessment in the workplace for selection and training.
Sociability as a disposition describes a tendency to affiliate with others (vs. be alone). Yet, we know relatively little about how much social behavior people engage in during a typical day. One ...challenge to documenting social behavior tendencies is the broad number of channels over which socializing can occur, both in-person and through digital media. To examine individual differences in everyday social behavior patterns, here we used smartphone-based mobile sensing methods (MSMs) in four studies (total N = 926) to collect real-world data about young adults' social behaviors across four communication channels: conversations, phone calls, text messages, and use of messaging and social media applications. To examine individual differences, we first focused on establishing between-person variability in daily social behavior, examining stability of and relationships among daily sensed social behavior tendencies. To explore factors that may explain the observed individual differences in sensed social behavior, we then expanded our focus to include other time estimates (e.g., times of the day, days of the week) and personality traits. In doing so, we present the first large-scale descriptive portrait of behavioral sociability patterns, characterizing the degree to which young adults engaged in social behaviors and mapping these behaviors onto self-reported personality dispositions. Our discussion focuses on how the observed sociability patterns compare to previous research on young adults' social behavior. We conclude by pointing to areas for future research aimed at understanding sociability using mobile sensing and other naturalistic observation methods for the assessment of social behavior.
This study examined the associations between personality traits and psychological and behavioural responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Personality was assessed in ...January/February 2020 when the public was not aware of the spread of coronavirus in the USA. Participants were reassessed in late March 2020 with four sets of questions about the pandemic: concerns, precautions, preparatory behaviours, and duration estimates. The sample consisted of N = 2066 participants (mean age = 51.42; range = 18–98; 48.5% women). Regression models were used to analyse the data with age, gender, education, race, and ethnicity as covariates. Consistent with the preregistered hypotheses, higher neuroticism was related to more concerns and longer duration estimates related to COVID-19, higher extraversion was related to shorter duration estimates, and higher conscientiousness was associated with more precautions. In contrast to the preregistered hypotheses, higher neuroticism was associated with fewer precautions and unrelated to preparatory behaviours. Age moderated several trait-response associations, suggesting that some of the responses were associated more strongly in older adults, a group at risk for complications of COVID-19. For example, older adults high in conscientiousness prepared more. The present findings provide insights into how personality predicts concerns and behaviours related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We demonstrate that Big-Five personality traits are stable for working-age adults over a four-year period. Mean population changes are small and constant across age groups. Intra-individual changes ...are generally unrelated to adverse life events and are not economically meaningful.
► Using a representative sample of working-age adults, we assess whether Big-Five personality is stable. ► Average personality changes are small and do not vary substantially across age groups over four years. ► Intra-individual personality change is generally unrelated to experiencing adverse life events. ► The wage equivalent of accumulative changes in personality due to shocks is small. ► Like other non-cognitive traits, personality can be modeled as a stable input into economic decisions.
Cybernetic Big Five Theory DeYoung, Colin G.
Journal of research in personality,
06/2015, Letnik:
56
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•Cybernetic Big Five Theory is a new integrative theory of personality.•Personality traits reflect parameters of evolved cybernetic mechanisms.•Characteristic adaptations are goals, interpretations, ...and strategies in updateable memory.•Specific mechanisms are identified for traits in the Big Five hierarchy.•Implications for psychopathology and well-being are discussed.
Cybernetics, the study of goal-directed, adaptive systems, is the best framework for an integrative theory of personality. Cybernetic Big Five Theory attempts to provide a comprehensive, synthetic, and mechanistic explanatory model. Constructs that describe psychological individual differences are divided into personality traits, reflecting variation in the parameters of evolved cybernetic mechanisms, and characteristic adaptations, representing goals, interpretations, and strategies defined in relation to an individual’s particular life circumstances. The theory identifies mechanisms in which variation is responsible for traits in the top three levels of a hierarchical trait taxonomy based on the Big Five and describes the causal dynamics between traits and characteristic adaptations. Lastly, the theory links function and dysfunction in traits and characteristic adaptations to psychopathology and well-being.
•Network analysis can foster novel insights in personality psychology.•We provide an overview of network analysis.•We show how R can be used to analyze personality networks.•We show how to simulate ...personality networks in R.
Network analysis represents a novel theoretical approach to personality. Network approaches motivate alternative ways of analyzing data, and suggest new ways of modeling and simulating personality processes. In the present paper, we provide an overview of network analysis strategies as they apply to personality data. We discuss different ways to construct networks from typical personality data, show how to compute and interpret important measures of centrality and clustering, and illustrate how one can simulate on networks to mimic personality processes. All analyses are illustrated using a data set on the commonly used HEXACO questionnaire using elementary R-code that readers may easily adapt to apply to their own data.
Using data from 138 independent samples, we meta-analytically examined three research questions concerning the roles of personality and network position in organizations. First, how do different ...personality characteristics—self-monitoring and the Big Five personality traits—relate to indegree centrality and brokerage, the two most studied structurally advantageous positions in organizational networks? Second, how do indegree centrality and brokerage compare in explaining job performance and career success? Third, how do these personality variables and network positions relate to work outcomes? Our results show that self-monitoring predicted indegree centrality (across expressive and instrumental networks) and brokerage (in expressive networks) after controlling for the Big Five traits. Self-monitoring, therefore, was especially relevant for understanding why people differ in their acquisition of advantageous positions in social networks. But the total variance explained by personality ranged between 3% and 5%. Surprisingly, we found that indegree centrality was more strongly related to job performance and career success than brokerage. We also found that personality predicted job performance and career success above and beyond network position and that network position partially mediated the effects of certain personality variables on work outcomes. This paper provides an integrated view of how an individual’s personality and network position combine to influence job performance and career success.
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