Eranda Jayawickreme
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 348546 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eranda Jayawickreme |
| NOMBRES | Eranda |
| APELLIDO | Jayawickreme |
| FIRMA | JAYAWICKREME E |
| AFILIACIONES | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6544-7004 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Assessing the Response Process Validity of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory Using Cognitive Interviews
Post-traumatic growth (PTG) refers to perceived positive psychological changes following highly distressing or traumatic events. Although PTG has garnered significant attention from both researchers and the broader public, its assessment has largely depended on retrospective measures such as the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI). These measures presume that respondents engage in a complex psychological process (e.g., recalling pre- and post-t…
Investigating corroboration on the Stress-Related Growth Scale-Revised among romantic partners☆☆
Romantic partners corroborated individuals’ self-reported growth after trauma. • SRGS-R yielded lower growth reports compared to traditional PTG scales. • Findings support refining tools to assess perceived growth. The construct validity of self-reports of perceived posttraumatic growth (PTG) has been questioned in recent years. One response has been to modify standard assessments to improve their validity. The Stress-Related Growth Scale-Revised…
A philosophical approach to improving empirical research on posttraumatic growth
Post-traumatic growth (PTG) has been a key topic of research by psychologists over the last 25 years. But the idea that a person can benefit from adversity has been around for much longer, and is a stable in many mainstream cultures, and in theological and recent philosophical thinking. However, there has been, to date, little overlap between psychological research into PTG, and philosophical thinking about similar ideas. This is unfortunate, bot…
The moral role models scale
Recent accounts of character formation highlight the role of admiring and emulating moral role models or exemplars as a key facilitator of moral development. However, validated measures that assess the extent to which individuals affiliate with and are impacted by moral exemplars have not been developed. The present research fills this gap by developing and providing initial validity evidence for the Moral Role Models Scale (MRMS). Through explor…
Truthfulness Predominates in Americans’ Conceptualizations of Honesty
Honesty is a near universally valued trait. However, the term honesty captures a litany of traits and behaviors, obscuring research on social perceptions and trait measurement of honesty and creating philosophical difficulties in accounting for what (if anything) unifies this diversity. We applied a prototype analysis approach to identify the most central elements of lay honesty conceptualizations, identifying elements that come to mind and are e…
From Trauma to Resilience to Peace? Charting resilient and pluralistic paths forward in post-civil war Sri Lanka
This introductory editorial for the special issue, “From Trauma to Resilience to Peace? Charting Paths Forward in Post-Civil-War Sri Lanka,” synthesizes six distinct contributions to map the island's psychosocial landscape in the sixteen years since the end of the civil war. Quantitative and qualitative examinations demonstrates that wartime violence, chronic economic stressors, and political volatility continue to impact mental health, while mat…
Mental health futures in post-war Sri Lanka
This paper examines the state of psychosocial health in Sri Lanka fifteen years after the end of its civil war, analyzing both the lingering impact of the conflict and the additional challenges posed by recent events, including the 2019 Easter bombings that particularly impacted the Catholic community, and the severe economic crisis that began in 2022. Drawing on research published in this SSM-Mental Health special collection, as well as other re…
Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR) ombudspersons’ evaluation of articles published in 2022 and 2023
Which virtues work together to foster the xenocentric style
Streib builds on the work of Waldenfels to provide a compelling account of how xenocentric (as opposed to xenophobic) responsiveness to members of out-groups can lead to wisdom. He further discusses how distinctive manifestations of characteristics such as perspective-taking and intellectual humility can facilitate the development of a xenocentric style. In this reflection, I discuss other characteristics that may play a role in facilitation styl…
Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional
OBJECTIVE: What do people see as distinguishing the morally exceptional from others? To handle the problem that people may disagree about who qualifies as morally exceptional, we asked subjects to select and rate their own examples of morally exceptional, morally average, and immoral people. METHOD: Subjects rated each selected exemplar on several enablers of moral action and several directions of moral action. By applying the logic underlying st…
Examining the impact of major life events on the frequency and experience of daily social events
OBJECTIVE: Life events can impact people's dispositional functioning by changing their state-level patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior. One pathway through which this change may be facilitated is changes in the experience of daily social events. METHOD: We examined the dynamic relationship between major life events and the subsequent experience of positive and negative daily social events in a year-long longitudinal study (initial N = 12…
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms
Understanding adaptive responses to adversity
Research on resilience and posttraumatic growth (PTG) has significantly advanced our understanding of human adaptability to adversity, reflecting a widespread belief in the United States that such adaptability is commonplace. However, recent studies have highlighted conceptual and methodological limitations in these fields. These limitations call into question the credibility of existing research and underscore the need for multidisciplinary pers…
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Deconstructing wisdom through a cultural lens
In many contemporary societies, misinformation, epistemic arrogance, and intergroup conflict pose serious threats to social cohesion and well-being. Wisdom may offer a potential antidote to these problems, with a recently identified Common Wisdom Model (CWM) suggesting that wisdom involves epistemic virtues such as intellectual humility, openness to change, and perspective-taking. However, it is unclear whether these virtues are central for folk …
What does it mean to flourish, languish, and grow? A qualitative analysis of civilian interviews from survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide
The current study investigated characteristics of resilience and posttraumatic growth in a sample of Rwandan genocide survivors. One hundred and sixty-three participants provided responses to a series of open-ended questions about resilient functioning among members of their community, as well as their own experiences of posttraumatic growth since the genocide. An overall theme in the responses was the role of environmental characteristics in bot…
Examining the possibilities for volitional character change in compassion and intellectual humility through a three-month online intervention
Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility
How do intellectual virtues promote good thinking and knowing
In a 2012 Theory and Research in Education article, Spiegel argued that intellectual humility and open-mindedness can mutually reinforce each other to produce good thinking and knowing. In this commentary, we build on this insight and discuss the likely importance of multiple intellectual virtues in producing good thinking. We argue that Spiegel’s discussion of the relations between different intellectual virtues suggests new directions for theor…
Commencing character
In the last century, higher education has witnessed a shift away from explicit character education. Although scholarship has recently reemerged on the importance of character in college, there are
Do We Know Whether We’re Happier? Corroborating Perceived Retrospective Assessments of Improvements in Well-Being
To what extent do our beliefs about how our well-being has improved over time correspond to observed changes? Participants ( N = 1,247 from Qualtrics Panels) completed questionnaires measuring dispositional well-being and ill-being (depressive symptoms) at three time points over the course of one year, as well as 44 weekly assessments of state well-being and ill-being over 52 weeks. They additionally completed measures of perceived improvements i…
Clarifying the Content of Intellectual Humility
Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being
Research on post-traumatic growth (PTG) has been compromised by methodological limitations. Recent process-oriented accounts of personality suggest, however, that positive changes may occur through short-term (i.e., state-level) changes in PTG. In the current year-long study, 1,247 participants provided weekly reports of significant negative events as well as state manifestations of PTG (up to 44 assessments per individual; 34,205 total). Trait a…
Development and validation of the Moral Character Questionnaire
Do people agree on how they and others are acting? Examining the degree of target–observer and observer–observer agreement about current behavior as it changes across situations
The purpose of the present research was to test the level of agreement between targets and observers both at any given moment and as the targets' current behavior (assessed as personality states) change across moments. Ninety-seven target participants participated in 22 different activities across 20 1-hour long sessions in a laboratory setting while reporting their current behavior, and their behavior was evaluated by 183 observers (total of 3,4…
Whole Trait Theory
The Engine of Well-Being
The study of well-being is hampered by the multiplicity of approaches, but focusing on a single approach begs the question of what "well-being" really is. We analyze how well-being is defined according to the three main kinds of theories: "Liking" approaches (generally adopted by psychologists), "Wanting" approaches (predominant among economists), and "Needing" approaches (used in both public policy and psychology). We propose an integrative fram…
How Can We Study Heroism? Integrating Persons, Situations and Communities
Heroism—an individual's commitment to a noble purpose, usually aimed at furthering the welfare of others, and involving the willingness to accept the consequences of achieving that purpose—has received little attention from political psychologists, even though a person is arguably as liable to act heroically as she is to act in a morally reprehensible manner. Specifically, important questions remain in how heroes can be identified beforehand and …
A foundation beam for studying morality from a personological point of view
Triumphalism, fear and humiliation
The Sri Lankan government's recent victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) presents a unique opportunity to resolve the long-standing ethnic conflict in the country. However, the Tamil population's distrust of the government will not change easily. Furthermore, the Tamil diaspora located in Europe, Australia, and Canada believed that the LTTE was the only force that could protect the Tamil people from annihilation, and the war's …
Situation-Based Contingencies Underlying Wisdom-Content Manifestations
These results offer new directions for research on the expression of wisdom-related characteristics in daily life
Post-conflict struggles as networks of problems
Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms
Development and validation of the Moral Character Questionnaire
Deconstructing wisdom through a cultural lens
In many contemporary societies, misinformation, epistemic arrogance, and intergroup conflict pose serious threats to social cohesion and well-being. Wisdom may offer a potential antidote to these problems, with a recently identified Common Wisdom Model (CWM) suggesting that wisdom involves epistemic virtues such as intellectual humility, openness to change, and perspective-taking. However, it is unclear whether these virtues are central for folk …
Examining the possibilities for volitional character change in compassion and intellectual humility through a three-month online intervention
Expert predictions of societal change
How do experts in human behavior think the world might change after the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic? What advice do they have for the postpandemic world? Is there a consensus on the most significant psychological and societal changes ahead? To answer these questions, we analyzed interviews from the World After COVID Project-reflections of more than 50 of the world's top behavioral and social science experts, including fellows of National Acad…
Examining the within-person effect of affect on daily satisfaction
Examining the effect of affect on life satisfaction judgments
Theoretical and Empirical Bases of Character Development in Adolescence
Wisdom Gained? Assessing Relationships Between Adversity, Personality and Well-Being Among a Late Adolescent Sample
Triumphalism, fear and humiliation
The Sri Lankan government's recent victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) presents a unique opportunity to resolve the long-standing ethnic conflict in the country. However, the Tamil population's distrust of the government will not change easily. Furthermore, the Tamil diaspora located in Europe, Australia, and Canada believed that the LTTE was the only force that could protect the Tamil people from annihilation, and the war's …
How Can We Study Heroism? Integrating Persons, Situations and Communities
Heroism—an individual's commitment to a noble purpose, usually aimed at furthering the welfare of others, and involving the willingness to accept the consequences of achieving that purpose—has received little attention from political psychologists, even though a person is arguably as liable to act heroically as she is to act in a morally reprehensible manner. Specifically, important questions remain in how heroes can be identified beforehand and …
The Engine of Well-Being
The study of well-being is hampered by the multiplicity of approaches, but focusing on a single approach begs the question of what "well-being" really is. We analyze how well-being is defined according to the three main kinds of theories: "Liking" approaches (generally adopted by psychologists), "Wanting" approaches (predominant among economists), and "Needing" approaches (used in both public policy and psychology). We propose an integrative fram…
Post–traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change
This target article focuses on the construct of post–traumatic growth—positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances. Prominent theories of post–traumatic growth define it in terms of personality change, and as a result, this area of research should be of great interest to personality psychologists. Despite this fact, most of the research on this topic has not been sufficiently inf…
The protective function of personal growth initiative among a genocide-affected population in Rwanda
The aim of the current study was to investigate the extent to which individual differences in personal growth initiative (PGI) were associated with lower reports of functional impairment of daily activities among a genocide-affected population in Rwanda. PGI measures an individual's motivation to develop as a person and the extent to which he or she is active in setting goals that work toward achieving self-improvement. We found that PGI was nega…
Investigating the Veracity of Self-Perceived Posttraumatic Growth
Research into posttraumatic growth—positive psychological change that people report in their relationships, priorities in life, and self-perception after experiences of adversity—has been severely critiqued. We investigated the degree to which community members’ friends and relatives corroborated targets’ self-perceived positive and negative changes as measured by the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-42. We found corroboration only for negative cha…
Control and the “Good Life”
How does a sense of control relate to well-being? We consider two distinguishable control strategies, primary and secondary control, and their relationships with two facets of subjective well-being, daily positive/negative affective experience and global life satisfaction. Using undergraduate and online samples, the results suggest that these different control strategies are associated uniquely with distinct facets of well-being. After controllin…
Whole Trait Theory
A foundation beam for studying morality from a personological point of view
Morality’s Centrality to Liking, Respecting, and Understanding Others
We examine morality’s relationship to three distinct dimensions of social perception: liking, respecting, and knowing a person. Participants completed two independent tasks. First, they rated acquaintances’ morality, competence, and sociability, and how much they liked, respected, and knew those acquaintances. In the second task, they rated a variety of moral and competence traits on their importance to liking, respecting, and knowing a person. S…
Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development
In this target article, we argue that personality processes, personality structure, and personality development have to be understood and investigated in integrated ways in order to provide comprehensive responses to the key questions of personality psychology. The psychological processes and mechanisms that explain concrete behaviour in concrete situations should provide explanation for patterns of variation across situations and individuals, fo…
Moral Psychology
Does Whole Trait Theory Work for the Virtues
Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change
Examining the within-person effect of affect on daily satisfaction
Examining the effect of affect on life satisfaction judgments
Theoretical and Empirical Bases of Character Development in Adolescence
Wisdom Gained? Assessing Relationships Between Adversity, Personality and Well-Being Among a Late Adolescent Sample
Post-conflict struggles as networks of problems
Situation-Based Contingencies Underlying Wisdom-Content Manifestations
These results offer new directions for research on the expression of wisdom-related characteristics in daily life
Fixing the Growth Illusion
The literature on resilience and posttraumatic growth has been instrumental in highlighting the human capacity to overcome adversity by illuminating that there are different pathways individuals may follow. Although the theme of strength from adversity is attractive and central to many disciplines and certain cultural narratives, this claim lacks robust empirical evidence. Specific issues include methodological approaches of using growth-mixture …
Morality as a Basic Psychological Need
We investigate the long-standing yet understudied assumption that feeling moral is a basic psychological need, perhaps like the needs to feel autonomous, competent, and related (ACR). We report an empirical “entrance exam” on whether morality should be considered a need. Specifically, we applied to morality a pioneering method from which Sheldon and colleagues provided evidence that ACR are basic psychological needs. In two studies and four sampl…
Integrating whole trait theory and self‐determination theory
We explore and explicate some promising points of integration between self‐determination theory (SDT) and whole trait theory (WTT). Integrating SDT and WTT can offer an example for navigating challenges that have long confronted integrating trait‐descriptive and motivational‐explanatory views of personality. We review SDT and WTT in turn. The review of SDT is organized around the emergence of its six mini‐theories. The review of WTT will introduc…
Changes in daily manifestations of Openness to Experience during intensive cognitive‐behavioral treatment
OBJECTIVE: Research examining relationships between trait Openness to Experience, psychopathology, and well-being has produced contradictory findings. Examining temporary manifestations of Openness may provide further insight into the interplay between Openness and symptoms in clinical populations. METHOD: = 34 years, 52% women, 83% White) taking part in 7 days of intensive treatment for acute psychopathology. Participants also completed a daily …
Relativism or tolerance? Defining, assessing, connecting, and distinguishing two moral personality features with prominent roles in modern societies
OBJECTIVE: This work disentangles moral tolerance from moral relativism and reveals their distinct personological meanings. Both constructs have long been of interest to moral philosophers, moral psychologists, and everyday people, and they may play prominent roles in the feasibility of modern diverse societies. However, they have been criticized as devaluing morality and as producing overly permissive societies. Moreover, although they lack nece…
Psychology (53 obras) · Social Psychology (35 obras) · Epistemology (19 obras) · Personality (15 obras) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (15 obras) · Resilience and Mental Health (15 obras) · Clinical Psychology (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Developmental psychology (13 obras) · Posttraumatic growth (12 obras)