JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY & INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Year:2012 | Volume:1 | Issue:1|Papers Count:8

This study was conducted to investigate the relationships of personality traits (agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism) and organizational justice with mediating role of negative affect. Participants were 227 nurses from the hospitals of social security organization in Isfahan province were selected by simple random method. The instruments consisted of Organizational Justice Questionnaire (Colquitt, 2001), NEO Personality Inventory (McCrae & Costa, 1985) and Job-related Affective Well-being Scale (Van Katwyk, Fox, Spector, & Kelloway., 2000). The indirect effects were tested using the Bootstrap procedure in Preacher and Hayes (2008) SPSS Macro program. Results indicated that neuroticism correlated significantly with Procedural, distributive, interpersonal and informational justice (P<0.01). Agreeableness and conscientiousness significantly correlated only with procedural, distributive, interpersonal and informational justice (P<0.01). Also, negative affect mediated the relation between personality traits and organizational justice. While considering the limitations, discussion and implications of the results are also presented.

An old dispute exist between the experts preferred approaches to personality traits or personality types. While personality traits introduce more features that are not obvious, types are described persons in everyday language based on combinations of Distinguishing characteristics. This study been done with present of Torgersen Typology and its survey in Isfahan. This study was ex post facto and descriptive - cross sectional. The destination statistics society of this study is couples from Isfahan in 1390, that according to categorical sampling chosen 3700 subjects and distribute questionnaires to determine personality types. Which due to drops ended up to 3066 (1533 females and 1533 males) subjects. In order to extract personality type's Torgersen was used NEO Personality Questionnaire, that based on combinations of high and low scores (above and below the median) on Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Consciousness result eight unique personality types. This types include Spectator, Insecure, Skeptic, Brooder, Hedonist, Impulsive, Entrepreneur and Complicated. The results showed that the most frequency was belonging to Entrepreneur type and then Insecure type, and the lowest frequency was belonging to Hedonist and Impulsive types. The frequency based on sex observed that Hedonist type had lowest frequency for females, and for the males lowest frequency belonging to Impulsive type.

The aim of present study was to investigate the predictive role of cognitive style dimensions included Need for cognition, need for structure& need for decisiveness in determining actively open-minded thinking as metacognitive disposition index.223 Shiraz University students participated in this study. The scales of need for cognition (Cacippo et, al., 1996), need for structure & need for decisiveness (Thompson et, al., 1992) and actively open-minded thinking (Stanovich and west, 2007) were administered. Factor analysis and Cronbach alpha reported acceptable validity and reliability of the scales. Regression analysis results showed positive role of need for cognition and negative role of need for structure in predicting open-minded thinking. Need for decisiveness did not predict actively open-minded thinking.

The aim of this investigation is study and comparing personality factors in self-harm prisoners, non self-harm prisoners and normal subjects. Investigation want to recognize the personality factors that discriminate the self harm prisoners from others. The method of this research was descriptive-comparative, in which a sample consisting 150 self-harm prisoners, self-harm prisoners and normal subjects (50 per groups) was matched by demographic characteristics and investigated by big five personality factors (NEO) Inventory. The results of variance analysis indicated that Neuroticism and Extroversion factors there are difference between self-harm prisoners with non self-harm prisoners and with normal subjects. In Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness factors there are not difference between self-harm prisoners with none self-harm but between them and normal subjects.

The purpose of this study was to develop and test a motivational model to predict students’ hope based on self-determination theory. The model argues that motivational variables underlie students’ hope can be either supported in the classroom by autonomy-supportive teachers or frustrated by controlling teachers. A structural equation analyze was conducted. The Participants were 416 male students aged between 15 and 17 years from Qazvin high schools. Questionnaires were used to assess perceived basic psychological needs satisfaction, behavioral regulation, and hope. LISREL analyses of questionnaire data showed that the perceived basic psychological needs satisfaction within classrooms fosters more self-determined forms of behavioral regulations. These forms of behavioral regulations in turn, predicted more hope in students. But students’ hope was predicted positively by extrinsic regulation. The findings support the model. Perceived basic psychological needs satisfaction need to take account in fostering more self determined forms of behavioral regulations and hope by developing choice opportunities, increasing students’ perceived competence, and making sympathy relationship in classrooms.

Living in a family which is full of tension might result in frustration and cause the frustrated individuals to seek their needs out of the family. The core aim of this study was a comparative investigation of personality disorders in socially damaged women and the normal women. Participants in the present research were 92 socially damaged women and 144 normal women from Boushehr. They completed Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. The results indicated that socially damaged women in compare with normal women get significanlly higher scores at 11 disorders out of 14 personality disorders, except in histrionic personality, narsistic personality, and compulsive personality. The socially damaged women, also showed higher scores in all of the 10 clinical syndroms. The results also showed significant differences between low educated in compare with high educated socially damaged women in the 8 personality disorders and 6 clinical syndroms. Teaching the proper parenting styles to parents, teaching effective life skills to children, and helping socially damaged women to get rid of their problems could lead in decreasing this social problem.

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of personality characteristics, creativity and humor styles in prediction of students subjective well-being. Research method was descriptive and correlational. The sample consisted of 200 participates of Persian gulf university students (126 female and 74 male) who were selected among various faculties by the use of multi-stage random sampling. The instruments used in this study were: Neo-FFI, Humor Styles Inventory, Subjective Well-being Scale and Creativity Questionnaire. The results of this research indicated that neuroticisms, extraversion, openness and conscientiousness had a significant relationship with subjective well-being. Also, between creativity multidimensional, only fluency and extension had a significant relationship with subjective well-being. And between self-enhancing, self-defeating and aggressive humor styles had a significant relationship with subjective well-being. Stepwise regression analysis showed complex relationships (RS=0.59) between personality characteristics, creativity and humor styles with subjective well-being.

The Autism traits lie on a continuum of social-communication disability. The aim of the present study was the comparison of personality profile between students with high and low Autism Spectrum Traits at Yazd University. A comparative method was used. The Participants included 132 (82 female, 50 male) with high and 140 (73 female, 67 male) with low autism spectrum traits who selected with randomly multistage method. The instruments used in this study were: MMPI-2 and Autism Spectrum Quotient, The result of a Manova (f=37.16, p<0.001) showed that, there is at least, a significant relationship between variables. The students with high autistic traits had higher scores (p<0.001) than students with low Autistic Traits in all of the clinical scales except Hysteria and Hypomania Scales.