What Do We Assess when We Assess a Big 5 Trait? A Content Analysis of the Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Processes Represented in Big 5 Personality Inventories

Zillig, Lisa M. Pytlik; Hemenover, Scott H.; Dienstbier, Richard A.

doi:10.1177/0146167202289013

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“…Personality traits are part of a complex continuum, characterized by behavior, cognition, and affect (Zillig, Hemenover, & Dienstbier, 2002). From a developmental perspective it is unclear whether attentional biases drive the development of personality or vice versa, as there is evidence of genetic components to both attention (Faraone et al, 2005;Fossella et al, 2002) and personality (Jang, Livesley, & Vemon, 1996;Loehlin, McCrae, Costa, & John, 1998).…”

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The scope of no return: Openness predicts the spatial distribution of Inhibition of Return

Wilson

Lowe

Ruppel

et al. 2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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How and what we attend to is foundational in determining the content of our experience, thus differences in attention contribute significantly to how we perceive the world, learn, and develop. Personality also plays a role in constraining how we learn to perceive the world and it is conceivable that some facets of personality interact with visual attention; however, the relationship between these two constitutional aspects of psychology remains unclear. To address this interplay between cognition and personality, we looked at how the Big Five personality traits relate to the spatial scope of attention, as indexed by the spatial distribution of Inhibition of Return (IOR). IOR is marked by a decrement in reaction time when a target appears at a cued location, more than 200 ms after that cue. As the cue/target distance increases there is a release from inhibition, providing a measure of the spatial distribution of IOR and reflecting the spatial scope of attention. The results presented here show personality does predict the distribution of IOR. Specifically, higher trait Openness is associated with a broader distribution of IOR and attention. This finding suggests there is an intimate connection between personality, particularly Openness, and the spatial allocation of attention.

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confidence: 99%

The scope of no return: Openness predicts the spatial distribution of Inhibition of Return

Wilson

Lowe

Ruppel

et al. 2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Five personality traits, openness to experience was found to be epitomized by cognition (Zillig, Hemenover, & Dienstbier, 2002). Moreover, openness has also been linked to memory processes such as the experience and usage of autobiographical recollections (Rasmussen & Berntsen, 2010).…”

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Remotely Close Associations: Openness to Experience and Semantic Memory Structure

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“…This scale is a comprehensive personality inventory based on the Big Five personality trait model. 30 The NEO-FFI measures neuroticism, openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. Respondents are instructed to rate each item on a five-point Likert scale, from SD to SA.…”

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Sleep Disturbances in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans: Associations with PTSD, Personality, and Coping

Lind

Brown

Farrell-Carnahan

et al. 2017

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

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Study Objectives: Sleep disturbances are well documented in relation to trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but correlates of such disturbances remain understudied in veteran populations. We conducted a preliminary study of sleep disturbances in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn veterans (n = 133; mean [standard deviation] age = 29.8 [4.7] y). Methods: Veterans were assigned to one of three groups based on responses to the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale: control (no trauma-exposure [TE] or PTSD), TE, and PTSD. Sleep disturbance was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Measures of resilience, trauma load, personality, coping, alcohol use, and mild traumatic brain injury were also assessed via self-report. Results: The PTSD group had significantly more disturbed sleep (PSQI global score mean = 8.94, standard deviation = 3.12) than control (mean = 5.27, standard deviation = 3.23) and TE (mean = 5.34, standard deviation = 3.17) groups, but there were no differences between TE and control. The same pattern emerged across most PSQI subscales. Results of linear regression analyses indicated that current smoking, Army (versus other military branches), neuroticism, and using substances to cope were all significant correlates of higher sleep disturbance, whereas post-deployment social support was associated with less sleep disturbance. However, when combined together into a model with PTSD status, only neuroticism and substance use coping remained significant as predictors of more disturbed sleep. Conclusions: These initial findings suggest that TE itself may not be an independent risk factor for disturbed sleep in veterans, and that neurotic personality and a tendency to cope by using substances may partially explain sleep disturbance, above and beyond a diagnosis of PTSD.

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What Do We Assess when We Assess a Big 5 Trait? A Content Analysis of the Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Processes Represented in Big 5 Personality Inventories

Cited by 294 publications

References 41 publications

The scope of no return: Openness predicts the spatial distribution of Inhibition of Return

The scope of no return: Openness predicts the spatial distribution of Inhibition of Return

Remotely Close Associations: Openness to Experience and Semantic Memory Structure

Sleep Disturbances in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans: Associations with PTSD, Personality, and Coping

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