Paul T. Costa

ORCID: 0000-0003-4375-1712
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Research Areas
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Psychological Testing and Assessment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Health and Well-being Studies
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience

Johns Hopkins University
2010-2025

University of Michigan
2021-2025

Duke University
2012-2024

University of Cincinnati Medical Center
2021

Behavioral Pharma (United States)
2014-2020

Duke Medical Center
2013-2020

Duke University Hospital
2013-2020

National Institutes of Health
2005-2015

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
1982-2015

University of Edinburgh
2014

Two data sources--self-reports and peer ratings--and two instruments--adjective factors questionnaire scales--were used to assess the five-factor model of personality. As in a previous study self-reports (McCrae & Costa, 1985b), adjective neuroticism, extraversion, openness experience, agreeableness-antagonism, conscientiousness-undirectedness were identified an analysis 738 ratings 275 adult subjects. Intraclass correlations among raters, ranging from .30 .65, between mean self-reports, .25...

10.1037/0022-3514.52.1.81 article EN Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1987-01-01

Patterns of covariation among personality traits in English-speaking populations can be summarized by the five-factor model (FFM). To assess cross-cultural generalizability FFM, data from studies using 6 translations Revised NEO Personality Inventory (P.T. Costa & R. McCrae, 1992) were compared with American factor structure. German, Portuguese, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese samples (N = 7,134) showed similar structures after varimax rotation 5 factors. When targeted rotations used,...

10.1037/0003-066x.52.5.509 article EN American Psychologist 1997-05-01

10.1016/0191-8869(92)90236-i article EN Personality and Individual Differences 1992-06-01

Three studies are reported that examine the relations between personality and happiness or subjective well-being. It is argued (a) one set of traits influences positive affect satisfaction, whereas a different negative dissatisfaction; (b) former can be reviewed as components extraversion, latter neuroticism; (c) differences antedate predict in over period 10 years, thus ruling out rival hypothesis temporary moods states account for observed relations. A model individual presented, separate...

10.1037//0022-3514.38.4.668 article EN Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1980-01-01

Personality traits are organized hierarchically, with narrow, specific combining to define broad, global factors. The Revised NEO Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992c) assesses personality at both levels, six facet scales in each of five broad domains. This article describes conceptual issues specifying facets a domain and reports evidence on the validity NEO-PI-R scales. Facet analysis-the interpretation scale terms which it correlates-is illustrated using alternative measures...

10.1207/s15327752jpa6401_2 article EN Journal of Personality Assessment 1995-02-01

Data from three normal samples were used to examine links between personality disorder scales and measures of the five-factor model personality. In first study, self-reports, spouse ratings, peer ratings on NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), a measure five basic factors personality, correlated with MMPI in sample 297 adult volunteers. second self-reports NEO-PI Millon Clinical Multiaxial (MCMI-I) 207 adults; MCMI-II examined 62 students. Results generally replicated findings Wiggins Pincus...

10.1521/pedi.1990.4.4.362 article EN Journal of Personality Disorders 1990-12-01

Previous longitudinal studies of personality in adulthood have been limited the range traits examined, chiefly made use self-reports, and frequently included only men. In this study, self-reports (N = 983) spouse ratings 167) were gathered on NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1985b), which measures all five major dimensions normal personality. Cross-sectional analyses data from men women aged 21 to 96 years showed evidence small declines Activity, Positive Emotions, openness Actions...

10.1037//0022-3514.54.5.853 article EN Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1988-01-01

Abstract Two studies of coping among community‐dwelling adults ( N = 255,151) were used to examine the influence personality on responses, perceived effectiveness mechanisms, and effects well‐being In both a wide range potential stressors was examined, categorized as losses, threats, or challenges The dimensions neuroticism, extraversion, openness experience, measured by self‐reports spouse‐ peer‐ratings, systematically related mechanisms in There general agreement across types use 27...

10.1111/j.1467-6494.1986.tb00401.x article EN Journal of Personality 1986-06-01

10.1016/s0191-8869(03)00118-1 article EN Personality and Individual Differences 2003-05-13

The five-factor model is a dimensional representation of personality structure that has recently gained widespread acceptance among psychologists. This article describes the five factors (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness); summarizes evidence on their consensual validity, comprehensiveness, universality, heritability, longitudinal stability; reviews several approaches to assessment defining traits. In research, measures can be used analyze disorder...

10.1521/pedi.1992.6.4.343 article EN Journal of Personality Disorders 1992-12-01

Temperaments are often regarded as biologically based psychological tendencies with intrinsic paths of development. It is argued that this definition applies to the personality traits five-factor model. Evidence for endogenous nature summarized from studies behavior genetics, parent-child relations, structure, animal personality, and longitudinal stability individual differences. New evidence maturation offered analyses NEO Five-Factor Inventory scores men women age 14 over in German,...

10.1037//0022-3514.78.1.173 article EN Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2000-01-01

Perhaps because negative emotions are frequently expressed in physiological reactions, psychosomatic theories have often identified Neuroticism and its component traits (including anxiety, anger, depression) as causal influences on the development of disease. These views apparently supported by correlations between physical symptom reports measures males. Data from 347 adult women Baltimore Longitudinal Study Aging replicate this finding for total complaints most body systems. However,...

10.1111/j.1467-6494.1987.tb00438.x article EN Journal of Personality 1987-06-01
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