Sara J Weston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1732453 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara J Weston |
| NOMBRES | Sara J |
| APELLIDO | Weston |
| FIRMA | WESTON S J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7782-6239 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Using structural topic modeling to understand ethnicity‐related narratives
OBJECTIVE: Narrative identity is a promising approach for understanding the content of individuals' ethnic identities but can be limited by the time-intensive nature of human coding and the reliance on preestablished coding systems. BACKGROUND: The aim of our preregistered study is to elucidate the content of individuals' ethnicity-related experiences using a novel statistical approach. METHOD: We applied structural topic modeling (STM), a natura…
The person-environment fit of immigrants to the United States
There are notable parallels between processes leading to person-environment fit (PE-fit) and processes of selection and acculturation among U.S. immigrants. Thus, a natural question is: Do immigrants benefit from fitting their new environments? PE-fit appears to have uniformly positive effects in the education, career, and personality literatures, but it is unclear whether this would be the case for immigrants. The present study evaluated the PE-…
Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the U.S
Measurement invariance of the Domain‐Specific Risk‐Taking (Dospert) scale
Group‐level risk attitudes are often studied across psychology domains (e.g., binge drinking among college students, and driving risk by gender). In measuring these differences by self‐report, such work relies on the assumption that those measures of risk attitude function equivalently across demographic groups—that is, that the measure employed has the property of measurement invariance. Here, we examine the measurement invariance properties of …
Personality traits and health care use
358,803). According to the synthesized results, people higher in conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and openness, and lower in neuroticism were more likely to visit the dentist; people higher in neuroticism were more likely to visit general medical practitioners; and people lower in conscientiousness and agreeableness and higher in neuroticism were more likely to be hospitalized. Associations tended to be small with odds ratios aroun…
The Role of Personality in Shaping Pandemic Response
The current study utilizes the current COVID-19 pandemic to highlight the importance of accounting for the influence of external political and economic factors in personality public health research. We investigated the extent to which systemic factors modify the relationship between personality and pandemic response. Results shed doubt on the cross-cultural generalizability of common Big Five factor models. Individual differences only predicted g…
Personality traits and mental health care utilization
Working toward a purpose
OBJECTIVE: Employment appears to influence employees' sense of purpose, insofar as work roles can provide life direction and allow individuals to fulfill meaningful aims or have regular goal-related activity engagement. However, research is needed on which specific characteristics of the work predict employees' sense of purpose. The current study sought to quantitate the degree to which specific work characteristics, including skill variety, auto…
Psychosocial factors associated with preventive pediatric care during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Relationship Between Career Success and Sense of Purpose
These findings suggest that subjective career success may be more important for sense of purpose than more objective indicators. Findings are discussed with respect to study limitations and guidance for future researchers using secondary data
Who Are the Scrooges? Personality Predictors of Holiday Spending
The sharp increase in consumption over the holiday season has important economic implications, yet the psychology underlying this phenomenon has received limited attention. Here, we evaluate the role of individual differences in holiday spending patterns. Using 2 million transactions across 2,133 individuals, we investigate the relationship between the Big 5 personality traits on spending at Christmas. Zero-order correlations suggest holiday spen…
The role of vigilance in the relationship between neuroticism and health
Reconsidering what is vital about vital signs in electronic health records
The inclusion of psychosocial variables into electronic health records provides a unique opportunity for the translation of findings from social, psychological, and behavioral domains into patient care. This commentary is a response to the recommendations of a committee convened by the Institute of Medicine to address this opportunity (Matthews, Adler, Forrest, & Stead, 2016). We concur with the committee that the inclusion of psychosocial variab…
A Comparison of Human Narrative Coding of Redemption and Automated Linguistic Analysis for Understanding Life Stories
The majority of life narrative research is performed using trained human coders. In contrast, automated linguistic analysis is oft employed in the study of verbal behaviors. These two methodological approaches are directly compared to determine the utility of automated linguistic analysis for the study of life narratives. In a study of in‐person interviews ( N = 158) and a second study of life stories collected online ( N = 242), redemption score…
Personality Traits Predict the Onset of Disease
While personality traits have been linked concurrently to health status and prospectively to outcomes such as mortality, it is currently unknown whether traits predict the diagnosis of a number of specific diseases (e.g., lung disease, heart disease, and stroke) that may account for their mortality effects more generally. A sample ( N = 6,904) of participants from the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal study of older adults, completed pe…
Identification of the healthy neurotic
Identification of the healthy neurotic
The Relationship Between Career Success and Sense of Purpose
These findings suggest that subjective career success may be more important for sense of purpose than more objective indicators. Findings are discussed with respect to study limitations and guidance for future researchers using secondary data
Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the U.S
Personality traits and health care use
358,803). According to the synthesized results, people higher in conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and openness, and lower in neuroticism were more likely to visit the dentist; people higher in neuroticism were more likely to visit general medical practitioners; and people lower in conscientiousness and agreeableness and higher in neuroticism were more likely to be hospitalized. Associations tended to be small with odds ratios aroun…
The role of vigilance in the relationship between neuroticism and health
Personality Traits Predict the Onset of Disease
While personality traits have been linked concurrently to health status and prospectively to outcomes such as mortality, it is currently unknown whether traits predict the diagnosis of a number of specific diseases (e.g., lung disease, heart disease, and stroke) that may account for their mortality effects more generally. A sample ( N = 6,904) of participants from the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal study of older adults, completed pe…
Identification of the healthy neurotic
A Comparison of Human Narrative Coding of Redemption and Automated Linguistic Analysis for Understanding Life Stories
The majority of life narrative research is performed using trained human coders. In contrast, automated linguistic analysis is oft employed in the study of verbal behaviors. These two methodological approaches are directly compared to determine the utility of automated linguistic analysis for the study of life narratives. In a study of in‐person interviews ( N = 158) and a second study of life stories collected online ( N = 242), redemption score…
Reconsidering what is vital about vital signs in electronic health records
The inclusion of psychosocial variables into electronic health records provides a unique opportunity for the translation of findings from social, psychological, and behavioral domains into patient care. This commentary is a response to the recommendations of a committee convened by the Institute of Medicine to address this opportunity (Matthews, Adler, Forrest, & Stead, 2016). We concur with the committee that the inclusion of psychosocial variab…
The role of vigilance in the relationship between neuroticism and health
Who Are the Scrooges? Personality Predictors of Holiday Spending
The sharp increase in consumption over the holiday season has important economic implications, yet the psychology underlying this phenomenon has received limited attention. Here, we evaluate the role of individual differences in holiday spending patterns. Using 2 million transactions across 2,133 individuals, we investigate the relationship between the Big 5 personality traits on spending at Christmas. Zero-order correlations suggest holiday spen…
The Relationship Between Career Success and Sense of Purpose
These findings suggest that subjective career success may be more important for sense of purpose than more objective indicators. Findings are discussed with respect to study limitations and guidance for future researchers using secondary data
Working toward a purpose
OBJECTIVE: Employment appears to influence employees' sense of purpose, insofar as work roles can provide life direction and allow individuals to fulfill meaningful aims or have regular goal-related activity engagement. However, research is needed on which specific characteristics of the work predict employees' sense of purpose. The current study sought to quantitate the degree to which specific work characteristics, including skill variety, auto…
Psychosocial factors associated with preventive pediatric care during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Role of Personality in Shaping Pandemic Response
The current study utilizes the current COVID-19 pandemic to highlight the importance of accounting for the influence of external political and economic factors in personality public health research. We investigated the extent to which systemic factors modify the relationship between personality and pandemic response. Results shed doubt on the cross-cultural generalizability of common Big Five factor models. Individual differences only predicted g…
Personality traits and mental health care utilization
Measurement invariance of the Domain‐Specific Risk‐Taking (Dospert) scale
Group‐level risk attitudes are often studied across psychology domains (e.g., binge drinking among college students, and driving risk by gender). In measuring these differences by self‐report, such work relies on the assumption that those measures of risk attitude function equivalently across demographic groups—that is, that the measure employed has the property of measurement invariance. Here, we examine the measurement invariance properties of …
Personality traits and health care use
358,803). According to the synthesized results, people higher in conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and openness, and lower in neuroticism were more likely to visit the dentist; people higher in neuroticism were more likely to visit general medical practitioners; and people lower in conscientiousness and agreeableness and higher in neuroticism were more likely to be hospitalized. Associations tended to be small with odds ratios aroun…
Using structural topic modeling to understand ethnicity‐related narratives
OBJECTIVE: Narrative identity is a promising approach for understanding the content of individuals' ethnic identities but can be limited by the time-intensive nature of human coding and the reliance on preestablished coding systems. BACKGROUND: The aim of our preregistered study is to elucidate the content of individuals' ethnicity-related experiences using a novel statistical approach. METHOD: We applied structural topic modeling (STM), a natura…
The person-environment fit of immigrants to the United States
There are notable parallels between processes leading to person-environment fit (PE-fit) and processes of selection and acculturation among U.S. immigrants. Thus, a natural question is: Do immigrants benefit from fitting their new environments? PE-fit appears to have uniformly positive effects in the education, career, and personality literatures, but it is unclear whether this would be the case for immigrants. The present study evaluated the PE-…
Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the U.S
Psychology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Personality (8 obras) · Big Five personality traits (7 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras) · Extraversion and introversion (6 obras) · Neuroticism (6 obras) · Personality Traits and Psychology (6 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras)