Wk9 Applied Personality Flashcards
Which big five traits best predict job performance
Conscientiousness and emotional stability (reverse neuroticism)
Which traits facilitate positive relationships
Agreeableness is the most conducive.
Extraversion is also conducive.
In some relationships, low neuroticism and high conscientiousness are conducive.
Which traits contribute to poor young adult and parent relationship
High neuroticism, low conscientiousness, low extraversion
Which traits contribute to peer relationships
Accepted with higher extraversion and agreeableness.
Rejected with high introversion and low agreeableness.
Which traits contribute to relationship satisfaction
Higher extraversion and consientiousness
What is rejection sensitivity and who originally described it
Karen Horney
Being anxious about rejection (even anticipation) might cause you to respond with anger and rage.
This causes a vicious cycle.
What is rejection sensitivity a disposition to, and what is its function
Disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and overreact to rejection.
It is a cognitive affective processing disposition that functions as a defence mechanism
What are the variables that are characteristic of the authoritarian personality
Conventionalism
Authoritarian submission
Authoritarian aggression
Next two are old ideas
Preoccupation with power and toughness
Destructiveness and cynicism
What are some causes for authoritarianism
Upbringing, especially if they feared their parents which generates feelings of ambivalence and repressed hostility to authorities. These feelings are threatening and through displacement are transferred to weaker targets (e.g. ethnic minorities)
Trouble with the measure scales of authoritarianism
Historically criticised on methodological and analytical grounds. Currently most measures are very long (over 30 scales). Bizumic and Duckitt developed a 6-item measure which was satisfactory and valid.
Describe sociosexuality
Some individual differences in sexual behavior are described by the trait of sociosexuality, which is defined as the willingness to engage in sexual relations in the absence of a serious relationship
Describe attachment theory
Attachment theory, which has its roots in psychoanalytic thinking, describes the style of emotional relationships in adult life that is based on early experiences with caregivers such as one’s mother and family.
Which upbringing lead to which attachment style
Safe and supportive-Securely attached
Chaotic home-anxious/ambivalent attachment
Emotionally cold-avoidant attachment
