Relations between personality traits and self-reports of daily behavior Export

@article{citeulike:3181117, abstract = {This study investigates relations between personality traits and everyday behavior--an area of research that too often is ignored in contemporary personality assessment. Participants completed personality questionnaires and for 2 weeks kept daily records of behaviors related conceptually to 1 of 3 traits: aggression, exhibitionism, and impulsivity. Aggregating across time, correlations between 2 measures of trait aggression correlated .51 with behavioral aggression but only .14 and .18 with behavioral exhibitionism and behavioral impulsivity, respectively. Trait exhibitionism and trait impulsivity demonstrated similarly clean convergent/discriminant correlational patterns with the three types of behaviors. Many individual behavioral items also showed significant correlations with corresponding personality traits. Results are discussed in terms of using personality-behavior relations to further understanding of personality.}, author = {Wu, Kevin D. and Clark, Lee A.}, citeulike-article-id = {3181117}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00539-1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WM0-47S6KSS-5/2/cda6531fd7cd8aaa67b562957415b3da}, doi = {10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00539-1}, journal = {Journal of Research in Personality}, keywords = {attribute, behavior, daily, personality, profile, psychology, self-report, user}, month = {August}, number = {4}, pages = {231--256}, posted-at = {2008-09-02 09:47:50}, priority = {2}, title = {Relations between personality traits and self-reports of daily behavior}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00539-1}, volume = {37}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3181117 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3181117 N2 - This study investigates relations between personality traits and everyday behavior--an area of research that too often is ignored in contemporary personality assessment. Participants completed personality questionnaires and for 2 weeks kept daily records of behaviors related conceptually to 1 of 3 traits: aggression, exhibitionism, and impulsivity. Aggregating across time, correlations between 2 measures of trait aggression correlated .51 with behavioral aggression but only .14 and .18 with behavioral exhibitionism and behavioral impulsivity, respectively. Trait exhibitionism and trait impulsivity demonstrated similarly clean convergent/discriminant correlational patterns with the three types of behaviors. Many individual behavioral items also showed significant correlations with corresponding personality traits. Results are discussed in terms of using personality-behavior relations to further understanding of personality. IS - 4 JF - Journal of Research in Personality EP - 256 TI - Relations between personality traits and self-reports of daily behavior VL - 37 SP - 231 KW - attribute KW - behavior KW - daily KW - personality KW - profile KW - psychology KW - self-report KW - user AU - Wu, Kevin AU - Clark, Lee PY - 2003/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00539-1 ER -