Descriptive, predictive and explanatory personality research: Different goals, different approaches, but a shared need to move beyond the Big Few traits

R Mõttus, D Wood, DM Condon… - European Journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We argue that it is useful to distinguish between three key goals of personality science—
description, prediction and explanation—and that attaining them often requires different …

Measurement in intensive longitudinal data

D McNeish, DP Mackinnon, LA Marsch… - … equation modeling: a …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Technological advances have increased the prevalence of intensive longitudinal data as
well as statistical techniques appropriate for these data, such as dynamic structural equation …

Coping using sex during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the United Kingdom

SM Gillespie, A Jones, K Uzieblo… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background The use of sex to cope with negative affective states during the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be influenced by various sociodemographic and …

The many foibles of Likert scales challenge claims that self-report measures of self-control are better than performance-based measures

KR Paap, RT Anders-Jefferson, N Balakrishnan… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Self-control and executive functioning are often treated as highly related psychological
constructs. However, measures of each rarely correlate with one another. This reflects some …

[HTML][HTML] Hispanic/Latinx ethnic differences in the relationships between behavioral inhibition, anxiety, and substance use in youth from the ABCD cohort

KA Correa, EL Delfel, AL Wallace, WEP Iii… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Elevated levels of behavioral inhibition (BI) may connote risk for both anxiety
and substance use disorders. BI has consistently been shown to be associated with …

A novel model of obesity prediction: Neurobehaviors as targets for treatment.

MK Satyal, JC Basso, AN Tegge… - Behavioral …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Obesity is a worldwide epidemic that is on the rise, with approximately 30% of the world
population classified as either overweight or obese. The United States has some of the …

Emotion-related impulsivity: Testing a model of arousal effects on cognitive control

JG Pearlstein, SL Johnson… - Brain and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The trait-based tendency to respond rashly to emotions is robustly tied to many forms of
psychopathology and poor behavioural outcomes, including aggression and suicidality …

[HTML][HTML] Age-related variance in performance versus ratings of attention and impulse regulation in children: Implications for the assessment of adhd

RE Lyon, J Rizeq, DB Flora, R Martinussen… - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Executive function task (EF) deficits are hypothesized to underlie difficulties with self-
regulation. However, tasks assessing EF impairments have only been weakly correlated …

Social cues influence perception of others' pain

L Zhang, TD Wager, L Koban - European Journal of Pain, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Accurately perceiving other people's pain is important in both daily life and
healthcare settings. However, judging other's pain is inherently difficult and can be biased …

[HTML][HTML] Momentary self-regulation: Scale development and preliminary validation

EA Scherer, SJ Kim, SA Metcalf, MA Sweeney… - JMIR Mental …, 2022 - mental.jmir.org
Background Self-regulation refers to a person's ability to manage their cognitive, emotional,
and behavioral processes to achieve long-term goals. Most prior research has examined …