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Personality Traits

Personality traits are enduring dispositions that describe consistent patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour distinguishing individuals from one another. They are most commonly organised within the Five-Factor Model, or Big Five, which categorises personality along the dimensions of openness, conscientiousness, …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 94× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2644-1101 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Personality traits are enduring dispositions that describe consistent patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour distinguishing individuals from one another. They are most commonly organised within the Five-Factor Model, or Big Five, which categorises personality along the dimensions of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism, providing a framework for measuring individual differences and predicting outcomes across the lifespan. Traits interact with cognition, emotional wellbeing, social interaction and susceptibility to psychological disorder, and their study relies on psychometric assessment, developmental psychology and clinical research. Research relevant to this area includes spatial positioning and individual differences in learning environments; the role of mental functions and autobiographical memory in the formation of identity and life story in adolescence; the influence of dietary patterns on sleep disturbance; cognitive-analytic therapy in patients with breast cancer and post-traumatic stress; the integration of short-term dynamic psychotherapy with hypnosis and solution-focused methods; psychological assessment in children and youth with deviant behaviour; and neurofeedback approaches in autism spectrum disorder. Further work examines the doctor-patient relationship, impulse-control disorders in Parkinson's disease, drug abuse among street children, and the mind-body relationship in pain. Across these contributions the field characterises how stable trait dimensions shape behaviour, identity, learning, interpersonal relationships and mental health, drawing on trait theory and assessment to understand individual differences and their psychological and clinical correlates.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386
2018

Doctor-Patient Relationship as Dancing a Dance

Luis Turabian JoseCorresponding author
Specialist in Family and Community Medicine, Health Center Santa Maria de Benquerencia. Regional Health Service of Castilla la Mancha (SESCAM), Toledo, Spain.
Exact topic Family Medicine Cited by 29 doi:10.14302/issn.2640-690X.jfm-18-2485
2018

Drug Abuse among Street Children

Muhammed Bah YahyaCorresponding author
University of The Gambia, School of Arts and Sciences, Brikama Campus, The Gambia, West Africa
Exact topic Clinical Research In HIV AIDS And Prevention Cited by 52 doi:10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-18-2291

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 94 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Human Psychology (ISSN 2644-1101).

Journal editorial board
Christopher Mesagno · Australia Larkin Lamarche · canada Giuseppe Lanza · Italy

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