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Psychological attribute (or Group of attributes (number of attributes in the group)), Questionnaire (author(s)) |
Short description of measured attribute (number of items) |
Values - based on Schwartz Theory of Basic Values (6), Schwartz Value Survey – SVS (Schwartz, 1992) [31] |
Achievement - personal success through demonstrating competence according to social standards. (4 items) |
Hedonism - pleasure or sensuous gratification for oneself. (3 items) |
Power - social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources. (4 items) |
Self-direction - independent thought and action—choosing, creating, exploring. (5 items) |
Tradition - respect, commitment, and acceptance of the customs and ideas that one's culture or religion provides. (6 items) |
Universalism - understanding, appreciation, tolerance, and protection for the welfare of all people and for nature. (8 items) |
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Big Five Traits (5), 20–100-item IPIP questionnaire (8 length versions), also included data on 336-item |
IPIP Personality Facets questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006). Both questionnaires are proxies for Costa |
and McCrae's NEO-PI-R facets (Five Factor Model) [32] |
Emotional Stability (reversed Neuroticism) - the tendency not to experience negative emotions, such as |
anger, anxiety, or depression. |
Extroversion - characterized by positive emotions, surgency, and the tendency to seek out stimulation and the company of others. |
Openness to experience - a general appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, imagination, |
curiosity, and variety of experience. |
Agreeableness - tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others. |
Conscientiousness - tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement. |
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Interests (4), The Sensational Interests Questionnaire – SIQ (Egan et al., 1999) [33] |
Low militaristic interests (reversed Militaristic interests) – an individual with low active interest in |
militaristic activities (e.g. guns and shooting). (10 items) |
Low violent-occult interests (reversed Violent-occult interests)– an individual with low active interest in |
violent or occult activities (e.g. black magic). (7 items) |
Intellectual interests – an individual’s active interest in cerebral activities (e.g. philosophy). (7 items) |
Interest in wholesome activities – an individual’s active interest in active recreation (e.g. camping, hill |
walking). (5 items) |
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Body Consciousness (3), Body Consciousness Questionnaire –BCQ (Miller, Murphy, & Buss, 1981) [34] |
Private body - awareness of internal sensations. (5 items) |
Public body - awareness of observable aspects of body. (6 items) |
Body competence – self-confidence in the body's performance. (4 items) |
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Integrity assessment (2), Rust's Sense of Fairness and Impression Management, Orpheus (Rust & |
Golombok, 1989), 36 items. [35] |
Fair-mindedness (or Sense-of-fairness) – measures how balanced and impartial person is in her decision |
making. |
Self-Disclosure – measures to what extent a person conducts her life transparently. Reversed values are |
used as a measure of Impression Management and Social desirability (Lie scale). |
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“Stand-alone” traits – six psychological attributes which are not part of a group of constructs, each is measured with separate questionnaire |
Awareness of physical symptoms and sensations, Pennebaker’s Inventory of Limbic Languidness - PILL |
(Pennebaker, 1982) [36] |
Scale measures how often a person notices and reports a broad array of physical symptoms and sensations (e.g. chest pain, heart racing, dizziness). (54 items) |
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Self-monitoring, Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale, (Snyder, 1974) [37] |
Scale measures how much person monitors her self-presentations, expressive behavior, and nonverbal affective displays. (25 items) |
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Low Depression, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), NIMH, (Radloff, 1977) [38] |
Reversed Depression, measures lack of symptoms of depression in nine different groups as defined by the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fifth edition. (20 items) |
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Empathy, Empathy Quotient - EQ, (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004) [39] |
Scale measures self-reported ability to tune into how others are feeling, and to understand what they |
may be thinking. It measures both the affective and the cognitive components of empathy. (60 items) |
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Life satisfaction, Satisfaction With Life Scale- SWLS (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985) [40] |
Scale measures general wellbeing and satisfaction with one’s life. (5 items) |
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Intelligence, MyIQ test,myPersonality’s 20-item proxy for Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices (Raven, |
2008) [41], University of Cambridge’s Psychometrics Centre (Chan & Kosinski) |
Ability test measures cognitive skills and clear-thinking ability, and pattern recognition abilities known to |
have the highest correlation with the general intelligence factor. (20 items) |
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