OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Personality is 4. 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
Psychological and behavioural responses to Coronavirus disease 2019: The role of personality	157
A Psychometric Network Perspective on the Validity and Validation of Personality Trait Questionnaires	122
Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits	83
Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures	60
Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done?	50
On the Comparability of Basic Personality Models: Meta-Analytic Correspondence, Scope, and Orthogonality of the Big Five and HEXACO Dimensions	41
The Dynamics of Personality Approach (DPA): 20 Tenets for Uncovering the Causal Mechanisms of Personality	39
Indicators of Affect Dynamics: Structure, Reliability, and Personality Correlates	37
On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and its Relation with Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight	37
An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science	36
Are value–behavior relations stronger than previously thought? It depends on value importance	35
Does personality predict responses to the COVID-19 crisis? Evidence from a prospective large-scale study	31
General causality orientations in self-determination theory: Meta-analysis and test of a process model	25
Modelling the incremental value of personality facets: the domains-incremental facets-acquiescence bifactor showmodel	25
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	25
Flexibility in using self-regulatory strategies to manage self-control conflicts: The role of metacognitive knowledge, strategy repertoire, and feedback monitoring	25
Age and gender differences in socially aversive (“dark”) personality traits	24
Does neuroticism disrupt the psychological benefits of nostalgia? a meta-analytic test	24
Work Experiences and Self-Esteem Development: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies	21
New Directions in the Conceptualization and Assessment of Personality—A Dynamic Systems Approach	18
Self-Control Dynamics in Daily Life: The Importance of Variability Between Self-Regulatory Strategies and Strategy Differentiation	18
Testing the Information‐Seeking Theory of Openness/Intellect	18
Personality, Resilience, and Psychopathology: A Model for the Interaction between Slow and Fast Network Processes in the Context of Mental Health	18
Testing the social investment principle around childbirth: little evidence for personality maturation before and after becoming a parent	17
Self-Regulatory Strategy Use, Efficacy, and Strategy-Situation-Fit in Self-Control Conflicts of Initiation, Persistence, and Inhibition	16

Correlations between person-descriptive items are predictable from the product of their mid-point-centered social desirability values	16
The longitudinal interplay between personal values and subjective well-being: A registered report	15
The longitudinal interplay of personality and school experiences in adolescence	15
Equilibria in Personality States: A Conceptual Primer for Dynamics in Personality States	15
Advancing a Three-Tier Personality Framework for Posttraumatic Growth	14
Character Growth Following Collective Life Events: A Study on Perceived and Measured Changes in Character Strengths During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Fit gets better: A longitudinal study of changes in interest fit in educational and work environments	14
Personality change and sustainability attitudes and behaviors	14
Analysing effects of birth order on intelligence, educational attainment, big five and risk aversion in an Indonesian sample	14
None the wiser: Year-long longitudinal study on effects of adversity on wisdom	14
Conceptualizing and Studying Characteristics, Units, and Fits of Persons and Environments: A Coherent Synthesis	13
What teachers and parents can add to personality ratings of children: Unique associations with academic performance in elementary school	13
Experiences associated with psychological richness	13
Beyond biology: The importance of cultural factors in explaining gender disparities in STEM preferences	13
Emotion information processing as a new component of emotional intelligence: Theoretical framework and empirical evidence	13
Comparing predictive validity in a community sample: High–dimensionality and traditional domain–and–facet structures of personality variation	13
Your Personality does not Care Whether you Believe it Can Change: Beliefs about Whether Personality can Change do not Predict Trait Change among Emerging Adults	13
Intraindividual Variability in Narrative Identity: Complexities, Garden Paths, and Untapped Research Potential	13
Uncovering the Motivational Core of Traits: The Case of Conscientiousness	13
The affiliative role of empathy in everyday interpersonal interactions	12
When impulsive behaviours do not equal self-control failures: the (added) value of temptation enactments	12
Dark, gray, or bright creativity? (Re)investigating the link between creativity and dishonesty	12
Personality Traits and Perceptions of Major Life Events	12
Do Sojourn Effects on Personality Trait Changes Last? A Five–Year Longitudinal Study	12
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	12
Stability and change in vocational interest profiles and interest congruence over the course of vocational education and training	11
Subjectifying the Personality State: Theoretical Underpinnings and an Empirical Example	11
Becoming a perfectionistic adolescent: Perceived parental behaviors involved in developmental trajectories of perfectionism	11
Relations between HEXACO personality and ideology variables are mostly genetic in nature	11
The concert of personality: Explaining personality functioning and coherence by personality systems interactions	11
Pathways From Narcissism to Leadership Emergence in Social Groups	11
Perceived Characteristics of Life Events—Short-Term Changes in Prosociality and Empathy?	10
Idiographic personality coherence: A quasi experimental longitudinal ESM study	10
Growth all along the road? Personality development and international contacts of (in)experienced sojourners	10
Sometimes hot, sometimes not: the relations between selected situational vocational interests and situation perception	10
Personality dynamics at work: The effects of form, time, and context of variability	10
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	10
Personality-informed intervention design: Examining how trait regulation can inform efforts to change behavior	10
When a Truly Positive Correlation Turns Negative: How Different Approaches to Model Hierarchically Structured Constructs Affect Estimated Correlations to Covariates	10
Openness to experience is stable following adversity: A case-control longitudinal investigation	10
Developmental pathways of preadolescents' intrinsic and extrinsic values: The role of basic psychological needs satisfaction	10
Correlated personality change across time and age	10
The joint power of personality and motivation dynamics for occupational success: Bridging two largely separated fields	9
In good times and in bad: A longitudinal analysis of the impact of bereavement on self-esteem and life satisfaction in couples	9
Coffee or tea? Examining cross-cultural differences in personality nuances across former colonies of the British Empire	9
Integrating state dynamics and trait change: A tutorial using the example of stress reactivity and change in well-being	9
Personality states mediate the effect of a mindfulness intervention on employees’ work outcomes: A randomized controlled trial	9
Morning resolutions, evening disillusions: Theories of willpower affect how health behaviours change across the day	9
Five paths to personality coherence: Integrative implications of the Knowledge-and-Appraisal Personality Architecture	9
Self–other agreement in personality development in romantic couples	9

Neuroticism and satisfaction in romantic relationships: A systematic investigation of intra- and interpersonal processes with a longitudinal approach	9
Revisiting the hierarchical structure of the 24 VIA character strengths: Three global dimensions may suffice to capture their essence	9
A less evaluative measure of Big Five personality: Comparison of structure and criterion validity	8
How are common major life events perceived? Exploring differences between and variability of different typical event profiles and raters	8
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	8
Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Repeated Narration of Recent Transgressions Within Individuals’ Romantic Relationships and Character Growth in Empathy, Humility, and Compassion	8
The Network Constellation of Personality and Substance Use: Evolution from Early to Late Adolescence	8
Do the Big Five personality traits interact to predict life outcomes? Systematically testing the prevalence, nature, and effect size of trait-by-trait moderation	8
Personality and psychosocial functioning in early adolescence: Age-differential associations from the self- and parent perspective	7
Towards a taxonomy of personality facets	7
Investigating Posttraumatic Growth in Midlife Using an Intensive Longitudinal Research Design: Posttraumatic Growth Is Not as Prevalent as Previously Considered	7
In person, online, and up close: the cross‐contextual consistency of expressive accuracy	7
Revisiting Values and Self-Esteem: A Large-Scale Study in the United States	7
Clinical Application of Social Cognitive Theory: A Novel Personality Assessment Procedure and a Case Study of Personality Coherence	7
The actor, agent, and author across the life span: interrelations between personality traits, life goals, and life narratives in an age-heterogeneous sample	7
Personality is dynamic and it matters: The role of personality dynamics in applied contexts	7
You can’t always get what you want: The role of change goal importance, goal feasibility and momentary experiences for volitional personality development	7
Stewart-Williams and Halsey argue persuasively that gender bias is just one of many causes of women’s underrepresentation in science	6
Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning	6
What are agile, flexible, or adaptable employees and students? A typology of dynamic individual differences in applied settings	6
Addressing ethnic prejudice in youth: Developmental trajectories and associations with educational identity	6
Mental Representations of Values and Behaviors	6
Interdependencies between family and friends in daily life: Personality differences and associations with affective well-being across the lifespan	6
Person-situation dynamics in educational contexts: A self- and other-rated experience sampling study of teachers’ states, traits, and situations	6
Conscientiousness and Cognitive Ability as Predictors of Academic Achievement: Evidence of Synergistic Effects From Integrative Data Analysis	6
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	6
Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality–based Predictions of Future Life Experiences across Different Perceivers	5
Reciprocal associations between sense of purpose and subjective well-being in old age	5
Are predictions and perceptions of post-traumatic growth a form of ultimate justice reasoning?	5
Personality Development Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Role of Life Transitions and Self-Concept Clarity	5
Variability in negative affect is an important feature of neuroticism above mean negative affect once measurement issues are accounted for	5
Longitudinal Links Between Self-Esteem and the Importance of Self-Direction Values During Adolescence	5
The Role of Parental Socio-Economic Status and Perceived Career-Related Behaviors in Developmental Trajectories of Educational Identity in Adolescence: A Four-Wave Study	5
Initiation of drug and alcohol use and personality development during adolescence	5
What makes for a pleasant social experience in adolescence? The role of perceived social interaction behavior in associations between personality traits and momentary social satisfaction	5
Components and Correlates of Personality Coherence in Action, Agency, and Authorship	4
Individual and experiential predictors of character development across the deployment cycle	4
Stability and change in major life goals during the transition to parenthood	4
A developmental approach to youth maladaptive personality traits: Variable- versus person-centered change in the transition from childhood to adolescence	4
Relating within-person personality variability to organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior: A resource-based perspective	4
Distinguishing simple and residual consistencies in functionally equivalent and non-equivalent situations: Evidence from experimental and observational longitudinal data	4
What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?	4
Clarifying the link between psychological need satisfaction and positive affect: Longitudinal within-person tests for bi-directional influence in two cultures	4
Patterned person-situation fit in daily life: Examining magnitudes, stabilities, and correlates of trait-situation and state-situation fit	4
How Is Variety in Daily Life Related to the Expression of Personality States? An Ambulatory Assessment Study	4
A teacher like me? Different approaches to examining personality similarity between teachers and students	4
Personality change through a digital-coaching intervention: Using measurement invariance testing to distinguish between trait domain, facet, and nuance change	4
Big five personality traits and physician-certified sickness absence	4
Lessons learned from conducting a study of emotions and positive personality change in Syrian origin young adults who have recently resettled in the Netherlands	4
Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations	4
Development of adolescents’ self-esteem and general academic self-concept: perceived classroom climate makes a difference	4
Daily dynamics of grandiose narcissism: distribution, stability, and trait relations of admiration and rivalry states and state contingencies	4
The Development of Vocational Interests in Early Adolescence: Stability, Change, and State-Trait Components	4