OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Personality is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior	121
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	36
Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences	36
Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relationship outcomes across 13 years	35
Personality Characteristics of Morally Courageous Individuals: Evidence From Group Comparisons	29
I am who I am with: The link between different types of social interaction partners and personality in adolescence	29
Associations of common mental disorders with personality traits over a 17-year period	29
Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait	26
Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection	26
What is common may be as important as what is different: Examining the general factor shared by dispositional shame and guilt using bi-factor models	25
The quest for genuine self-knowledge: An investigation into individual differences in the self-insight motive	23
Lifespan trajectories of negative and positive affect: A coordinated analysis of 14 longitudinal studies	22
Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models	20
When do we put things off? A volitional-task attractiveness framework of personality and task-related factors in predicting procrastinatory behavior	19
I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence	17
Epigenetic aging and personality differences: Latent change analyses of twin data	17
Stability and change of basic personal values in mid-to-late adolescence: A 4-year longitudinal study	16
Bad news first—Neuroticism, negative expectations, and preference for negative information	14
Trajectories of temperament from late childhood through adolescence and associations with anxiety and depression in young adulthood	14
Revisiting the IPIP-NEO personality hierarchy with taxonomic graph analysis	13
Filling in the missing pieces: Personality traits (un)related to dishonest behavior	13
Reciprocal effects between self-esteem and work experiences: A reanalysis of two longitudinal studies	13
Exploring individual differences in volitional personality state and trait change: The role of motivation and engagement during a 12-week intervention	12
Short-term dynamics of pride and state self-esteem change during the university-to-work transition	11
Moving towards darkness: The personality-environment association between the Dark Triad and residential mobility	10

Differentiating narcissism modes in everyday life: The role of situation perception	10
Transactions between the Big Five personality traits and first sexual experiences in adolescence and emerging adulthood	10
The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels	10
Long-Term Advantages of Adolescent Optimism: Nonlinear Associations With Adult Outcomes and its Protective Role in Buffering Socioeconomic Risk	10
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	10
Longitudinal associations between personality traits and cognitive complaints in midlife and older age across 20 years	9
The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood	9
How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament	9
State investigative interest varies across daily life and predicts academic engagement: Replication and extension of the nomological network	9
Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study	9
Gender and values in 20 years of the European Social Survey: Are gender-typical values linked to parenthood?	9
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	9
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	8
Spurious prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem: A reanalysis of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	8
Teachers With Personality: General Traits versus Social-Emotional Characteristics and Instructional Competencies in Brazilian Teachers	8
A lexical examination of the facets of honesty-humility: The adjective checklist of honesty	8
Codevelopment of the dark triad and depressiveness from emerging adulthood to midlife	8
Personality development in adolescence: Examining big five trait trajectories in differential learning environments	8
Reciprocal associations between sense of purpose and subjective well-being in old age	7
Developing, evaluating, and interpreting personality state measures: A framework based on the revised latent state-trait theory	7
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	7
The inertia of anger and sadness among adolescents and adults: The role of self-efficacy in regulating negative emotions	7
The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage	7
Structural and Inter-individual Differentiation in Personality Traits Across the Adult Lifespan	7
A multiwave study on changes in narcissism	6
The complexity of the pursuit of happiness is associated with the success of well-being related behaviors in everyday life	6
Detecting spurious effects in cross-lagged panel models: Triangulation is not a valid test	6
Unveiling the Dynamics of Narcissistic Fluctuations and the Affective Cycles in Narcissism	6
Not all flowers bloom in April: Self-esteem development surrounding the first romantic relationship during adolescence and emerging adulthood	6
Basic personal values and vote choice in 20 European countries	6
What if there were no personality factors? Comparing the predictability of behavioral act frequencies from a big-five and a maximal-dimensional item set	6
Revisiting regulatory fit and its effect on honesty: A replication attempt	6
How much can personality predict prosocial behavior?	6
Personality psychology is getting personal: Advancing the field through personalization	6
Changes in social, emotional, and behavioral skills are associated with changes in secondary school students’ important outcomes	6