Dr. Skeem and Dr. Cooke warned in their paper that the checklist was increasingly being mistaken for a complete definition of psychopathy -- a broader personality construct that includes deceitfulness, impulsivity and recklessness, though not always aggression or illegal acts.
Our study suggests narcissistic perfectionism is a distinct personality construct that predicts aversive social behavior, thereby supporting theoretical descriptions of this oft-discussed, but rarely studied, personality construct.
Impulsivity is a multi-faceted personality construct that plays a prominent role in drug abuse vulnerability.
Alexithymia refers to a personality construct that includes a reduced ability to identify and describe feelings, a limited imagination, and a concrete, externally-oriented way of thinking.
Alexithymia is a personality construct characterized by difficulties in verbal emotional expression and a limited ability to use one's imagination.
Alexithymia is a multi-facet personality construct characterized by difficulty identifying and describing emotions, paucity of fantasies and externally orientated cognitive style.
There is currently disagreement among perfectionism theorists as to whether the personality trait of perfectionism should be conceptualized and measured as a global personality construct or as a domain-specific construct.
For example, Teacher M11 elicited four constructs which included one PCK construct: 'connected to teaching mathematics' (Teaching strategies category), one CK construct: 'connected to mathematics', one general pedagogy construct: 'connected to teaching', and one teacher's personality construct: 'connected to teacher's personality' (7 in Figure 1).
CSE has been widely studied as a broad personality construct and regarded as a good predictor for attitude and behavior in the workplace (Judge 2009; Judge et al. 2002; Judge et al. 1997; Rode et al. 2012) as well as being related to leadership ratings (Hu et al. 2012).
This scale assesses health-related hardiness, a "personality construct that moderates the stress-illness relationship" [ 70].
