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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Big Five personality traits and academic performance: A meta‐analysis	121
Big five personality traits and performance: A quantitative synthesis of 50+ meta‐analyses	51
What is boredom proneness? A comparison of three characterizations	51
Self‐control in daily life: Prevalence and effectiveness of diverse self‐control strategies	39
The finer details? The predictability of life outcomes from Big Five domains, facets, and nuances	38
Positive and negative urgency as a single coherent construct: Evidence from a large‐scale network analysis in clinical and non‐clinical samples	33
Examining the conceptual and empirical distinctiveness of Agreeableness and “dark” personality items	33
Are social desirability scales desirable? A meta‐analytic test of the validity of social desirability scales in the context of prosocial behavior	32
Employee narcissism and promotability prospects	21
The relation between narcissism and aggression: A meta‐analysis	21
Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology: A psychodynamic perspective	21
Structural differences in life satisfaction in a U.S. adult sample across age	20
Beyond Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness: Testing links between lower‐level personality traits and American political orientation	20
Testing the associations between dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at and romantic jealousy in couples: An APIM analysis	20
Exploring the stability of HEXACO‐60 structure and the association of gender, age, and social position with personality traits across 18 countries	19
Lighten the darkness: Personality interventions targeting agreeableness also reduce participants' levels of the dark triad	18
The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: An individual data meta‐analysis	18
Self‐defining memories—Narrative features in relation to adaptive and maladaptive personality traits (replication and extension of Blagov & Singer, 2004)	17
Rethinking aversive personality: Decomposing the Dark Triad traits into their common core and unique flavors	17
The Circumplex of Personality Metatraits and the HEXACO model: Toward refinement and integration	15
Personality maturation and personality relaxation: Differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life	15
Thriving through adversity: The role of passion and emotions in the resilience process	13
Beyond (low) Agreeableness: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of antagonistic psychopathology	13
Emotion regulation during personal goal pursuit: Integration versus suppression of emotions	13
Stability and well‐being: Associations among the Big Five domains, metatraits, and three kinds of well‐being in a large sample	13

Communal collective narcissism	12
Authenticity, meaning in life, and life satisfaction: A multicomponent investigation of relationships at the trait and state levels	12
The association between facets of conscientiousness and performance‐based and informant‐rated cognition, affect, and activities in older adults	12
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping	12
Integrating the study of personality and psychopathology in the context of gene‐environment correlations across development	12
Personality differences in the occurrence and affective correlates of daily positive events	11
Regional personality assessment through social media language	11
The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization	10
No relation of Need for Cognition to basic executive functions	10
Personality traits relate to chronotype at both the phenotypic and genetic level	10
Effect of worry, depression, and sensitivity to environmental stress owing to neurotic personality on risk of cardiovascular disease: A Mendelian randomization study	10
Selection and socialization effects of studying abroad	10
The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life	10
Rural–urban differences in personality traits and well‐being in adulthood	10
Psychobiographies of social change agents: Introduction to the Special Issue	10
Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology in cognitive behavioral therapy	10
Age and gender differences in personality traits from early childhood through adolescence	10
Stability and change in autobiographical reasoning: A 4‐year longitudinal study of narrative identity development	9
A trans agent of social change in incarceration: A psychobiographical study of Natasha Keating	9
Investigating how self‐esteem moderates grandiose narcissism's interpersonal orientation	9
Mapping political trust and involvement in the personality space—A meta‐analysis and new evidence	9
College students in the western world are becoming less emotionally intelligent: A cross‐temporal meta‐analysis of trait emotional intelligence	9
A developmental perspective on personality and psychopathology across the life span	9
Growing Memories: Coaching mothers in elaborative reminiscing with toddlers benefits adolescents' turning‐point narratives and wellbeing	9
What do people find most meaningful? How representations of the self and the world provide meaning in life	8
Do method effects generalize across traits (and what if they don't)?	8
Personality, intelligence, and academic achievement: Charting their developmental interplay	8
Mindful of personality trait change: Are treatment effects on personality trait change ephemeral and attributable to changes in states?	8
Adolescent empathic concern and perspective taking: Heterogeneous developmental trajectories and childhood social and psychological factors	8
Daily moral identity: Linkages with integrity and compassion	8
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	8
Resilience of primal world beliefs to the initial shock of the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Between‐ and within‐person structures of value traits and value states: Four different structures, four different interpretations	8
Autonomous motivation and support flourishes for individuals higher in collaborative personality factors: Agreeableness, assisted autonomy striving, and secure attachment	8
The values of religious nones, dones, and sacralized Americans: Links between changes in religious affiliation and Schwartz values	7
Using idiographic models to distinguish personality and psychopathology	7
Moderation of associations between interparental stress and (mal)adaptation by adolescents' personality: Contrasting differential susceptibility and diathesis–stress models	7
Is intelligence related to perfectionism? Multidimensional perfectionism and parental antecedents among adolescents across varying levels of cognitive ability	7
The tangled webs we wreak: Examining the structure of aggressive personality using psychometric networks	7
The social side of personality: Do affiliation and intimacy motives moderate associations of personal relationships with well‐being?	7
Perfectionism and Neuroticism: Evidence for a common genetic and environmental etiology	7
On the link of self‐esteem, life satisfaction, and Neuroticism	7
Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age	7
Daily stress reactivity: The unique roles of personality and social support	7
Development of intraindividual value structures in middle childhood: A multicultural and longitudinal investigation	7
The complex story of educational identity in adolescence: Longitudinal relations with academic achievement and perfectionism	7
Self‐esteem development during the transition to work: A 14‐year longitudinal study from adolescence to young adulthood	7
Gratitude and patience moderate meaning struggles and suicidal risk in a cross‐sectional study of inpatients at a Christian psychiatric hospital	6
Modeling dynamic personality theories in a continuous‐time framework: An illustration	6
Psychobiographical trends: Untold stories and international voices in the context of social change	6

Genetics, parenting, and family functioning—What drives the development of self‐control from adolescence to adulthood?	6
Self‐concealment, secrecy, and guilt	6
Who gives? Characteristics of those who have taken the Giving What We Can pledge	6
Personality aspects and proenvironmental attitudes	6
Behavioral and neural correlates of social network size: The unique and common contributions of face recognition and extraversion	6
Empathy and authenticity online: The roles of moral identity, moral disengagement, and parenting style	6
Narrative identity informs psychological adjustment: Considering three themes captured across five time points and two event valences	5
Clarifying the connection between parental conditional regard and contingent self‐esteem: An examination of cross‐lagged relations in early adolescence	5
Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture	5
Big Five personality traits predict small but robust differences in civic engagement	5
Broad and narrow environmental and genetic sources of personality differences: An extended twin family study	5
Differential responses to ethical vegetarian appeals: Exploring the role of traits, beliefs, and motives	5
Neural processing of personal, relational, and collective self‐worth reflected individual differences of self‐esteem	5
Negative internal working models as mechanisms that link mothers’ and fathers’ personality with their parenting: A short‐term longitudinal study	5
The lay of the land: Associations between environmental features and personality	5
Effects of an intergenerational program on adolescent self‐concept clarity: A pilot study	5
Pathways of personality and learning risk for addictive behaviors: A systematic review of mediational research on the acquired preparedness model	5
Agreeableness and adolescents' cyberbullying perpetration: A longitudinal moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and empathy	5
Integrating and distinguishing personality and psychopathology	5
Daily fluctuations in social status, self‐esteem, and clinically relevant emotions: Testing hierometer theory and social rank theory at a within‐person level	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
Despite popular intuition, positive world beliefs poorly reflect several objective indicators of privilege, including wealth, health, sex, and neighborhood safety	5
Proximal and distal honor fit and subjective well‐being in the Mediterranean region	5
Are they out to get me? Individual differences in nonclinical paranoia as a function of narcissism and defensive self‐protection	5
Pitfalls of self‐reported measures of self‐control: Surprising insights from extreme debtors	5
Exploring the acquaintanceship effect for the accuracy of judgments of traits and profiles of adult playfulness	5
How many and what mechanisms are needed to explain self‐regulatory functions in personality dynamics: Toward a model based on the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits	5
The happy personality revisited: Re‐examining associations between Big Five personality traits and subjective well‐being using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling	5