Affect, Behaviour, Cognition and Desire in the Big Five: An Analysis of Item Content and Structure

Wilt, Joshua; Revelle, William

doi:10.1002/per.2002

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“…Taking an even more general outlook, our studies may be considered as being consistent with the idea that personality is best understood by looking at the relations between affects, behaviors, cognitions, and desires (or goals)—the ABCDs of personality (e.g., Wilt & Revelle, 2015)—over time and space. Our findings linked goal dimensions (approach-avoidance) to enacted behaviors (state extraversion and neuroticism), which in turn were related to cognitive perceptions (perceived velocity toward a goal) and finally to affective states (positive and negative affect).…”

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Velocity explains the links between personality states and affect

Wilt

Bleidorn

Revelle

2017

Journal of Research in Personality

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The present research examined whether perceived rate of progress toward a goal (velocity) mediated the relationships between personality states and affective states. Drawing from control theories of self-regulation, we hypothesized (i) that increased velocity would mediate the association between state extraversion and state positive affect, and (ii) that decreased velocity would mediate the association between state neuroticism and state negative affect. We tested these hypotheses in 2 experience sampling methodology studies that each spanned 2 weeks. Multilevel modeling analyses showed support for each of the bivariate links in our model, and multilevel path analyses supported our mediation hypotheses. We discuss implications for understanding the relations between personality states and affective states, control theories of self-regulation, and goal striving.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Velocity explains the links between personality states and affect

Wilt

Bleidorn

Revelle

2017

Journal of Research in Personality

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“…Even though traits are thought to reflect relatively stable patterns of affect, behavior, and cognition, these three components of traits have been found to be differentially emphasized across the Big Five traits (Wilt & Revelle, ; Zillig, Hemenover, & Dienstbier, ). Across measures, each of the Big Five traits has been shown to be operationalized and described by different levels of affect, behavior, and cognition; and each trait seems to represent one of these three content domains more strongly than the others.…”

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Life Events and Personality Trait Change

Bleidorn

Hopwood

Lucas

2016

Journal of Personality

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Objective Theory and research have emphasized the impact of life events on personality trait change. In this article, we review prospective research on personality trait change in response to nine major life events in the broader domains of love and work. Method We expected to find that life events lead to personality trait change to the extent that they have a lasting influence on individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Moreover, we predicted that love‐related life events such as marriage or parenthood would be more strongly related to changes in traits that emphasize affective content, whereas work‐related life events would be more likely to lead to change in traits that reflect behavioral or cognitive content. Results The current state of research provided some evidence that life events can lead to changes in personality traits and that different life events may be differently related to specific trait domains. Conclusions A more general conclusion emerging from this review is that the evidence for the nature, shape, and timing of personality trait change in response to life events is still preliminary. We discuss the implications of the results for theory and research and provide directions for future studies on life events and personality trait change.

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“…1.08 C ABCD denotes the affective, behavioural, cognitive, and desire aspect (Wilt & Revelle, 2015), items with # are reverse scored. Note that we added the word resume to the original prestige motive item 'I like it when others compliment me on my curriculum vitae'.…”

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The dominance, prestige, and leadership account of social power motives

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Loughnan²,

Schönbrodt³

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The power motive predicts influential social behaviour; however, its heterogeneous conceptualisations have produced inconsistent results. To overcome this problem, we developed and validated a unitary taxonomy of social power motives based on established delineations of social hierarchies: the dominance, prestige, and leadership account. While we could measure these motives both reliably and distinctively (study 1), we also showed they strongly related to a common power desire (study 2). Assessing their nomological networks (studies 3 and 4), we demonstrated distinct associations between the dominance motive (D: wanting to coerce others into adhering to one's will) and anger and verbal aggression; the prestige motive (P: wanting to obtain admiration and respect) and the fear of losing reputation and claiming to have higher moral concerns; the leadership motive (L: wanting to take responsibility in and for one's group) and emotional stability and helping behaviour. Furthermore, while D uniquely predicted agonistic/retaliatory behaviour in dictator games (study 5), L uniquely predicted the attainment of higher employment ranks in various professions (study 7). Finally, at least to some degree, P and L related positively, and D negatively to prosocial donating behaviour (study 6). This taxonomy represents a novel and powerful approach to predicting influential social behaviour.

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Affect, Behaviour, Cognition and Desire in the Big Five: An Analysis of Item Content and Structure

Cited by 147 publications

References 106 publications

Velocity explains the links between personality states and affect

Velocity explains the links between personality states and affect

Life Events and Personality Trait Change

The dominance, prestige, and leadership account of social power motives

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