Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials

By G. Caprara, D. Cervone. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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What makes employees engaged with their work? The role of self-efficacy and employee’s perceptions of social context over time (2016, background): “It is worth noting that the constructs included in our study are subjective by definition (Caprara and Cervone, 2000), given that individuals are the most appropriate source of information on individual beliefs (self-efficacy), perceptions (PoSC) and (work-related) state of mind (work engagement).”
The Influence of Big Five Personality Traits and Self-efficacy on Entrepreneurial Intention: The Role of Gender (2017, background): “In conceiving personality as a complex system (Caprara & Cervone, 2000), one may view at personality traits and at SE as both crucial to account for entrepreneurial intention (Caprara, Vecchione, Alessandri, Gerbino, & Barbaranelli, 2011).”
A defence of the lexical approach to the study of personality structure (2005, background): “…interested in finding the major dimensions of personality, there have been several criticisms of the lexical strategy, and of the structural models of personality that have resulted from that approach (e.g. Bandura, 1999; Block, 1995; Caprara & Cervone, 2000; Shadel & Cervone, 1993; Westen, 1996).”
Impact of Adolescents' Filial Self‐Efficacy on Quality of Family Functioning and Satisfaction (2005, unknown): “Social cognitive theory adopts an agentic perspective to self-development, adaptation, and change (Bandura, 1986, 2001; Caprara & Cervone, 2000).”
Parental role models and the decision to become self-employed: The moderating effect of personality (2012, background): “individuals sense (Holland 1985), interpret (Rauch and Frese 2000), and act on (Hunt and Adams 1998; Caprana and Cervone 2000) information and stimuli they receive from their environment and thus their social learning processes.”
Dimensions of Normal Personality as Networks in Search of Equilibrium: You Can't like Parties if you Don't like People (2012, background): “Two main challenges in personality psychology are (i) to provide a plausible account of how the coherent ‘organization’ of such behaviours arises within an individual and (ii) to describe and explain the structure of ‘individual differences’ in personality (Caprara & Cervone, 2000).”
Personality, motives and metacognitions as predictors of problematic Facebook Use in university students (2016, background): “Caprara and Cervone (2000) have indeed defined personality traits as a set of internal systems that arise and act during the life span facilitating personal adaptation.”
Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages (2009, unknown): “…of evidence that the Big Five dimensions of personality are reliable across gender (Schmitt et al., 2007) and are relatively stable among adults (Caprara and Cervone, 2000).6 The Big Five taxonomy differentiates between 1) extroversion, 2) emotional stability, 3) agreeableness, 4)…”
Personality and marital surplus (2012, background): “…adulthood (Roberts and DelVecchio, 2000), temporal correlations in longitudinal studies commonly exceed 0.9 (Costa and McCrae, 1997).11 According to Caprara and Cervone (2000), “the relative stability of adults’ self-reports is one of the most robust findings in the personality psychology…”
Social-Cognitive Theory of Personality Assessment (2001, background): “…the social environment, and self-regulatory processes through which people establish personal goals and standards for performance and motivate themselves to reach desired ends (see Bandura, 1986, 1999; Caprara & Cervone, 2000; Cervone & Williams, 1992; Mischel, 1973; Mischel & Shoda, 1995, 1998).”
Motivation and Autonomy in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Behavior Change: A Look at Theory and Practice 1ψ7 (2011, background): “Within the cognitive-behavioral experimental literature, multiple techniques for enhancing client self-efficacy and motivation have been identified, ranging from modeling to persuasion to graded challenges, which are seen as having promise for clinical translations (Caprara & Cervone, 2000).”