OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Personality is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Post‐traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations	125
Big Five personality traits and academic performance: A meta‐analysis	86
Country‐level correlates of the Dark Triad traits in 49 countries	52
What is boredom proneness? A comparison of three characterizations	46
Big five personality traits and performance: A quantitative synthesis of 50+ meta‐analyses	41
The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)	39
Sex differences in HEXACO personality characteristics across countries and ethnicities	38
What is alexithymia? Using factor analysis to establish its latent structure and relationship with fantasizing and emotional reactivity	38
Looking under the tinfoil hat: Clarifying the personological and psychopathological correlates of conspiracy beliefs	36
The finer details? The predictability of life outcomes from Big Five domains, facets, and nuances	33
Self‐control in daily life: Prevalence and effectiveness of diverse self‐control strategies	33
Change in mental health symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of appraisals and daily life experiences	32
Examining the conceptual and empirical distinctiveness of Agreeableness and “dark” personality items	28
Positive and negative urgency as a single coherent construct: Evidence from a large‐scale network analysis in clinical and non‐clinical samples	26
Global personality dysfunction and the relationship of pathological and normal trait domains in the DSM‐5 alternative model for personality disorders	26
The dark core of personality and socially aversive psychopathology	25
When guiding principles do not guide: The moderating effects of cultural tightness on value‐behavior links	25
Are social desirability scales desirable? A meta‐analytic test of the validity of social desirability scales in the context of prosocial behavior	24
Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents	23
Self‐transcendence and life stories of humanistic growth among late‐midlife adults	23
The tripartite model of intrinsic motivation in education: A 30‐year retrospective and meta‐analysis	22
Development of character strengths across the deployment cycle among U.S. Army soldiers	21
Hidden framings and hidden asymmetries in the measurement of personality––A combined lens‐model and frame‐of‐reference perspective	20
Testing the associations between dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at and romantic jealousy in couples: An APIM analysis	19
Big Five facets' associations with pro‐environmental attitudes and behaviors	18

Are self‐esteem and academic achievement reciprocally related? Findings from a longitudinal study of Mexican‐origin youth	18
Employee narcissism and promotability prospects	18
Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology: A psychodynamic perspective	17
Structural differences in life satisfaction in a U.S. adult sample across age	17
Examining five pathways on how self‐control is associated with emotion regulation and affective well‐being in daily life	17
International optimism: Correlates and consequences of dispositional optimism across 61 countries	17
The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: An individual data meta‐analysis	17
Personality and moral judgment: Curious consequentialists and polite deontologists	15
Differential ability of network and natural language information on social media to predict interpersonal and mental health traits	15
Exploring the stability of HEXACO‐60 structure and the association of gender, age, and social position with personality traits across 18 countries	15
Chronic stress, executive functioning, and real‐life self‐control: An experience sampling study	15
Personality maturation and personality relaxation: Differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life	14
Toward a More Credible Understanding of Post‐Traumatic Growth	14
Beyond Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness: Testing links between lower‐level personality traits and American political orientation	14
Lighten the darkness: Personality interventions targeting agreeableness also reduce participants' levels of the dark triad	14
Self‐defining memories—Narrative features in relation to adaptive and maladaptive personality traits (replication and extension of Blagov & Singer, 2004)	13
The Circumplex of Personality Metatraits and the HEXACO model: Toward refinement and integration	13
Working toward a purpose: Examining the cross‐sectional and longitudinal effects of work characteristics on sense of purpose	13
The relation between narcissism and aggression: A meta‐analysis	13
Rethinking aversive personality: Decomposing the Dark Triad traits into their common core and unique flavors	12
Stability and well‐being: Associations among the Big Five domains, metatraits, and three kinds of well‐being in a large sample	12
How self‐esteem and narcissism differentially relate to high and (un)stable feelings of status and inclusion	11
The association between facets of conscientiousness and performance‐based and informant‐rated cognition, affect, and activities in older adults	11
Only some attempts at meaning making are successful: The role of change‐relatedness and positive implications for the self	11
Communal collective narcissism	11
Beyond (low) Agreeableness: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of antagonistic psychopathology	11
A longitudinal examination of the interplay between personality vulnerability and need‐based experiences in adolescents' depressive symptoms	11
Selection and socialization effects of studying abroad	10
Authenticity, meaning in life, and life satisfaction: A multicomponent investigation of relationships at the trait and state levels	10
Emotion regulation during personal goal pursuit: Integration versus suppression of emotions	10
Personality trait change at work: Associations with organizational socialization and identification	10
The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life	10
Integrating the study of personality and psychopathology in the context of gene‐environment correlations across development	10
No relation of Need for Cognition to basic executive functions	10
Investigating how self‐esteem moderates grandiose narcissism's interpersonal orientation	9
Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries	9
Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology in cognitive behavioral therapy	9
Psychobiographies of social change agents: Introduction to the Special Issue	9
Reflecting on nostalgic, positive, and novel experiences increases state Openness	8
The ups and downs of social life: Within‐person variations in daily status and inclusion differentially predict self‐regard and interpersonal behavior	8
Regional personality assessment through social media language	8
Age and gender differences in personality traits from early childhood through adolescence	8
A developmental perspective on personality and psychopathology across the life span	8
Mapping political trust and involvement in the personality space—A meta‐analysis and new evidence	8
A trans agent of social change in incarceration: A psychobiographical study of Natasha Keating	8
Autonomous motivation and support flourishes for individuals higher in collaborative personality factors: Agreeableness, assisted autonomy striving, and secure attachment	8
Personality differences in the occurrence and affective correlates of daily positive events	8
Personality traits relate to chronotype at both the phenotypic and genetic level	8
College students in the western world are becoming less emotionally intelligent: A cross‐temporal meta‐analysis of trait emotional intelligence	8
Stability and change in autobiographical reasoning: A 4‐year longitudinal study of narrative identity development	7

When people estimate their personal intelligence who is overconfident? Who is accurate?	7
Perfectionism and Neuroticism: Evidence for a common genetic and environmental etiology	7
Daily moral identity: Linkages with integrity and compassion	7
The values of religious nones, dones, and sacralized Americans: Links between changes in religious affiliation and Schwartz values	7
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping	7
Rural–urban differences in personality traits and well‐being in adulthood	7
Thriving through adversity: The role of passion and emotions in the resilience process	7
Beliefs about the nature of knowledge shape responses to the pandemic: Epistemic beliefs, the Dark Factor of Personality, and COVID‐19–related conspiracy ideation and behavior	7
Is intelligence related to perfectionism? Multidimensional perfectionism and parental antecedents among adolescents across varying levels of cognitive ability	7
In the eye of the beholder: Psychopathy and fear enjoyment	6
Between‐ and within‐person structures of value traits and value states: Four different structures, four different interpretations	6
Mindful of personality trait change: Are treatment effects on personality trait change ephemeral and attributable to changes in states?	6
Using idiographic models to distinguish personality and psychopathology	6
Personality, intelligence, and academic achievement: Charting their developmental interplay	6
The complex story of educational identity in adolescence: Longitudinal relations with academic achievement and perfectionism	6
What do people find most meaningful? How representations of the self and the world provide meaning in life	6
Conceptualizing the UPPS‐P model of impulsive personality through network analysis: Key dimensions and general robustness across young adulthood	6
Adolescent empathic concern and perspective taking: Heterogeneous developmental trajectories and childhood social and psychological factors	6
Examining the consistency of the good target across contexts and domains of personality	6
The social side of personality: Do affiliation and intimacy motives moderate associations of personal relationships with well‐being?	6
Development of intraindividual value structures in middle childhood: A multicultural and longitudinal investigation	6
Gratitude and patience moderate meaning struggles and suicidal risk in a cross‐sectional study of inpatients at a Christian psychiatric hospital	6
Effect of worry, depression, and sensitivity to environmental stress owing to neurotic personality on risk of cardiovascular disease: A Mendelian randomization study	6
Psychobiographical trends: Untold stories and international voices in the context of social change	6
Chinese college students' ability to recognize facial expressions based on their meaning‐in‐life profiles: An eye‐tracking study	6
Making and maintaining relationships through the prism of the dark triad traits: A longitudinal social network study	6
Who gives? Characteristics of those who have taken the Giving What We Can pledge	6
Self‐esteem development during the transition to work: A 14‐year longitudinal study from adolescence to young adulthood	5
Essentializing happiness reduces one’s motivation to be happier	5
Are they out to get me? Individual differences in nonclinical paranoia as a function of narcissism and defensive self‐protection	5
Personality aspects and proenvironmental attitudes	5
Integrating and distinguishing personality and psychopathology	5
Growing Memories: Coaching mothers in elaborative reminiscing with toddlers benefits adolescents' turning‐point narratives and wellbeing	5
Narrative identity informs psychological adjustment: Considering three themes captured across five time points and two event valences	5
Empathy and authenticity online: The roles of moral identity, moral disengagement, and parenting style	5
Clarifying the connection between parental conditional regard and contingent self‐esteem: An examination of cross‐lagged relations in early adolescence	5
Daily stress reactivity: The unique roles of personality and social support	5
Confidence is sexy and it can be trained: Examining male social confidence in initial, opposite‐sex interactions	5
Broad and narrow environmental and genetic sources of personality differences: An extended twin family study	5
Modeling dynamic personality theories in a continuous‐time framework: An illustration	5
On the link of self‐esteem, life satisfaction, and Neuroticism	5
Moderation of associations between interparental stress and (mal)adaptation by adolescents' personality: Contrasting differential susceptibility and diathesis–stress models	5
Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age	5
Genetics, parenting, and family functioning—What drives the development of self‐control from adolescence to adulthood?	5
The tangled webs we wreak: Examining the structure of aggressive personality using psychometric networks	5
Do method effects generalize across traits (and what if they don't)?	5
Boredom belief moderates the mental health impact of boredom among young people: Correlational and multi‐wave longitudinal evidence gathered during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Negative internal working models as mechanisms that link mothers’ and fathers’ personality with their parenting: A short‐term longitudinal study	5