Rene Mottus

2024

Using multi-rater and test-retest data to detect overlap within and between psychological scales

Henry, S., Wood, D., Condon, D. M., Lowman, G. H. & Mõttus, R., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Research in Personality. 113, 104530.

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Personality profiles of 263 occupations

Anni, K., Vainik, U. & Mõttus, R., 24 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Applied Psychology.

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The ways of the world? Cross-sample replicability of personality trait-life outcome associations

David Stewart, R., Diaz, A., Hou, X., Liu, X., Vainik, U., Johnson, W. & Mõttus, R., Oct 2024, In: Journal of Research in Personality. 112, 104515.

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Construct validity, longitudinal measurement invariance, incremental validity and predictive validity of the Original Grit Scale in Chinese young adults

Hou, X., Hu, T., Li, H., Henry, S., Ren, S., Xi, J. & Mõttus, R., 3 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality Assessment.

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Personality nuances and risk of dementia: Evidence from two longitudinal studies

Stephan, Y., Sutin, A. R., Mottus, R., Luchetti, M., Aschwanden, D. & Terracciano, A., Jul 2024, In: Journal of Psychiatric Research. 175, p. 1-8 8 p.

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Nuanced HEXACO: A meta-analysis of HEXACO cross-rater agreement, heritability, and rank-order stability

Henry, S., Baker, W., Bratko, D., Jern, P., Kandler, C., Tybur, J. M., de Vries, R., Wesseldijk, L. W., Zapko-Willmes, A., Booth, T. & Mottus, R., 3 Jun 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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Most people’s life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multi-trait, multi-rater, multi-sample data

Mõttus, R., Realo, A., Allik, J., Ausmees, L., Henry, S., McCrae, R. R. & Vainik, U., Apr 2024, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 126, 4, p. 676-693 18 p.

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Self- and informant-reported personality traits and vaccination against COVID-19

Arumäe, K., Realo, A., Ausmees, L., Allik, J., Esko, T., Fischer, K., Vainik, U. & Mottus, R., 14 Mar 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 3, 24 p., e0287413.

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A bottom-up approach dramatically increases the predictability of body mass from personality traits

Arumäe, K., Vainik, U., Mõttus, R. & Mustafa, S. (ed.), 10 Jan 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 1 January, 15 p., e0295326.

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2023

The longitudinal association between narcissism and problematic social networking sites use: The roles of two social comparison orientations

Hou, X., Ren, S., Rozgonjuk, D., Song, L., Xi, J. & Mõttus, R., Oct 2023, In: Addictive Behaviors. 145, 107786.

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Body mass predicts personality development across 18 years in middle to older adulthood

Arumäe, K., Mõttus, R. & Vainik, U., 8 Feb 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality. 15 p.

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Social expectations as a possible mechanism for adult personality change: Limited empirical evidence for the Social Investment Principle

Hang, Y., Speyer, L. G., Murray, A. L., Luciano, M. & Mõttus, R., 17 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality.

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2022

What correlations mean for individual people: A tutorial for researchers, students and the public

Mottus, R., 16 Dec 2022, In: Personality Science. 3, p. 1-27 27 p., e7467.

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Body mass is linked with a broad range of personality nuances, but especially those with behavioral content: A multi-sample exploration

Arumäe, K., Vainik, U. & Mottus, R., 26 Oct 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Personality Science. 3, e7583.

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Investigating general and specific psychopathology factors with nuance-level personality traits

Hang, Y., Speyer, L., Haring, L., Murray, A. L. & Mottus, R., 12 Aug 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Personality and Mental Health.

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Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study

Ausmees, L., Kandler, C., Realo, A., Allik, J., Borkenau, P., Hřebíčková, M. & Mõttus, R., Aug 2022, In: Journal of Research in Personality. 99, 104245.

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Social expectations and abilities to meet them as possible mechanisms of youth personality development

Hang, Y., Soto, C., Lee, B., Speyer, L., Murray, A. L. & Mottus, R., 28 Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality.

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Temporal associations between objectively measured physical activity and depressive symptoms: An experience sampling study

Li, Y-M., Konstabel, K., Mottus, R. & Lemola, S., 18 Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13, 920580.

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How correlations can(not) be applied to individual people: A tutorial for researchers, students and the public

Mottus, R., 24 Jun 2022.

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Test-retest reliability and construct validity of the brief dark triad measurements

Dragostinov, Y. & Mõttus, R., 7 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality Assessment.

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Beyond BMI: Personality traits’ associations with adiposity and metabolic rate

Arumäe, K., Mõttus, R. & Vainik, U., 15 Mar 2022, In: Physiology & Behavior. 246, 113703.

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Test-retest reliability of the HEXACO-100—And the value of multiple measurements for assessing reliability

Henry, S., Thielmann, I., Booth, T. & Mõttus, R., 13 Jan 2022, In: PLoS ONE. 17, p. 1-14 e0262465.

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2021

Do grittier people have greater subjective well-being? A meta-analysis

Hou, X. L., Becker, N., Hu, T. Q., Koch, M., Xi, J. Z. & Mõttus, R., 22 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 16 p.

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Predicting current voting intentions by big five personality domains, facets, and nuances – A random forest analysis approach in a German sample

Sindermann, C., Mottus, R., Rozgonjuk, D. & Montag, C., 21 Sept 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Personality Science. 2, 21 p.

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Age differences in the personality hierarchy: A multi-sample replication study across the life span

Hang, Y., Soto, C., Speyer, L. G., Haring, L., Lee, B., Ostendorf, F. & Mõttus, R., Aug 2021, In: Journal of Research in Personality. 93, 104121.

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Two genetic analyses to elucidate causality between body mass index and personality

Arumäe, K., Briley, D. A., Colodro-Conde, L., Mortensen, E. L., Jang, K., Ando, J., Kandler, C., Sorensen, T. I. A., Dagher, A., Mottus, R. & Vainik, U., 10 Jul 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Obesity. 45, p. 2244–2251

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The finer details? The predictability of life outcomes from Big Five domains, facets, items, and nuances

Stewart, R. D., Mottus, R., Seeboth, A., Soto, C. J. & Johnson, W., 8 Jul 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality.

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Bottom up construction of a personality taxonomy

Condon, D. M., Wood, D., Mottus, R., Booth, T., Costantini, G., Greiff, S., Johnson, W., Lukaszewski, A., Murray, A. L., Revelle, W., Wright, A. G. C., Ziegler, M. & Zimmermann, J., 19 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 36, 6, p. 923-934 12 p.

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A role for information theory in personality modeling, assessment, and judgment

Condon, D. & Mottus, R., 2021, Measuring and modeling persons and situations. Wood, D., Read, S. J., Harms, P. D. & Slaughter, A. (eds.). 1 ed. Academic Press, p. 1-31

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2020

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

Mottus, R., Wood, D., Condon, D., Back, M. D., Baumert, A., Costantini, G., Epskamp, S., Greiff, S., Johnson, W., Lukaszewski, A., Murray, A. L., Revelle, W., Wright, A. G. C., Yarkoni, T., Ziegler, M. & Zimmermann, J., 18 Dec 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Personality. 34, 6, p. 1175-1201 27 p.

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The many faces of dark personalities: An examination of the Dark Triad structure using psychometric network analysis

Truhan, T. E., Wilson, P., Mottus, R. & Papageorgiou, K. A., 12 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Personality and Individual Differences. 52 p., 110502.

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WAIS-III measurement invariance: Data from Estonian standardization

Anni, K., Käärik, M. & Mõttus, R., 28 Aug 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Clinical Neuropsychologist.

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Big Five facets' associations with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors

Soutter, A. R. B. & Mõttus, R., 12 Jul 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality.

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Big Five and HEXACO personality traits, proenvironmental attitudes, and behaviors: A meta-analysis

Soutter, A. R. B., Bates, T. C. & Mõttus, R., 1 Jul 2020, In: Perspectives on Psychological Science. p. 913-941 29 p.

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Big Five and HEXACO Personality Traits, pro-environmental attitudes, and behaviors: A meta-analysis

Soutter, A., Bates, T. & Mottus, R., 8 May 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Perspectives on Psychological Science.

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“Global warming” versus “Climate change”: A replication on the association between political self-identification, question wording, and environmental beliefs

Soutter, A. & Mottus, R., 13 Apr 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Environmental Psychology. 101413.

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Traits and adaptations: A theoretical examination and new empirical evidence

Henry, S. & Mõttus, R., 23 Mar 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Personality.

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Trait models going forward

Mõttus, R., 2020, In: European Journal of Personality. 34, 4, p. 537-538 2 p.

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2019

Development is in the details: Investigating age differences in the Big Five domains, facets and nuances

Mottus, R. & Rozgonjuk, D., 2 Dec 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. N/A, p. 1-14 14 p.

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Personality characteristics below facets: A replication and meta-analysis of cross-rater agreement, rank-order stability, heritability and utility of personality nuances

Mottus, R., Sinick, J., Terracciano, A., Hrebickova, M., Kandler, C., Ando, J., Mortensen, E. L., Colodro-Conde, L. & Jang, K. L., 31 Oct 2019, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 117, 4, p. e35-e50 16 p.

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Obesity has limited behavioural overlap with addiction and psychiatric phenotypes

Vainik, U., Misic, B., Zeighami, Y., Michaud, A., Mõttus, R. & Dagher, A., 28 Oct 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Human Behaviour.

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What personality scales measure: A new psychometrics and Its implications for theory and assessment

McCrae, R. R. & Mottus, R., 9 Jul 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Current Directions in Psychological Science.

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Openness is related to proenvironmental behavior both within and across families

Puech, C., Dougal, J., Deery, C., Waddell, C. & Mottus, R., 12 Jun 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environment & Behavior.

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Do self-reports and informant-ratings measure the same personality constructs?

Mottus, R., Allik, J. & Realo, A., 10 May 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

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Unravelling the interplay between genetic and environmental contributions in the unfolding of personality differences from early adolescence to young adulthood

Kandler, C., Waaktaar, T., Mõttus, R., Riemann, R., Torgersen, S. & Wrzus, C., 1 May 2019, European Journal of Personality, 33, 3, p. 221-244.

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Personality-obesity associations are driven by narrow traits: A meta-analysis

Vainik, U., Dagher, A., Realo, A., Colodro-Conde, L., Mortensen, E. L., Jang, K., Ando, J., Kandler, C., Sørensen, T. & Mottus, R., 15 Apr 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Obesity Reviews.

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Kids becoming less alike: A behavioral genetic analysis of developmental increases in personality variance from childhood to adolescence

Mottus, R., Briley, D. A., Zheng, A., Mann, F., Engelhardt, L., Tackett, J., Harden, P. & Tucker-Drob, E. M., 28 Mar 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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