Rodica Ioana Damian
Biographic Data
| ID | 170779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodica Ioana Damian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodica Ioana |
| FAMILY NAME | Damian |
| SIGNATURE | DAMIAN R I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0046-0627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The effect of social comparison feedback on creative performance and the moderating roles of creative self-efficacy and creative personal identity
The role of self-conscious emotions in everyday creativity: A daily diary study
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between personal narrative themes (human vs. computer coded) and hedonic and eudaimonic well-being
Are androgynous people more creative than gender conforming people
Diversifying Experiences, Personality, and Creativity
Which life experiences, personality and social factors enable people to succeed in life and make important creative contributions to society? And why do only some people show resilience or even thrive in the face of adversity? My research program is dedicated to understanding the precursors of career success and creativity, as well as the underlying developmental processes. I review two theoretical models that my colleagues and I have proposed: (…
Hurricane exposure, character traits, and hurricane event centrality
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors
People who experience more hurricane exposure tend to perceive worse diet changes. • Extraversion related to better perceived changes in overall health. • Neuroticism related to worse perceived changes in health, sleep, diet, exercise. • Little evidence for moderation by personality in hurricane-health associations. Using data from a retrospective pre-/post-longitudinal study of young adults impacted by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 (N = 330), we inve…
Life goal development, educational attainment, and occupational outcomes: A 12-year, multisample longitudinal study
Life goals play a major role in shaping people's lives and careers. Although life goals have prior documented associations with occupational and other life outcomes, no prior studies have investigated associations between life goal development and occupational outcomes. Using two representative samples of Icelandic youth (Sample 1: n = 485, Sample 2: n = 1,339), followed across 12 years from adolescence to young adulthood, we examined life goal d…
Open to laugh: The role of openness to experience in humor production ability
Hurricane exposure and personality development
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the role of natural disaster adversity on personality development in the wake of a hurricane, and the moderating role of previous hurricane exposure. METHOD: We used a two-wave longitudinal design and a diverse sample of emerging adults (n = 691; mean age = 22 years; 72% females, 27% European American, 29% Latino, 23% Asian American, 15% African American, 6% Multiracial/Other) who were exposed to one of the most damaging h…
The co-development of chores and effortful control among Mexican-origin youth and prospective work outcomes
Sixteen going on sixty-six: A longitudinal study of personality stability and change across 50 years
38, respectively), to validate the personality scales and estimate measurement error. This was the first study to test personality stability/change over a 50-year time span in which the same data source was tapped (i.e., self-report). This allowed us to use 4 different methods (rank-order stability, mean-level change, individual-level change, and profile stability) answering different developmental questions. We also systematically tested gender …
How you behave in school predicts life success above and beyond family background, broad traits, and cognitive ability
In this study, we investigated the role of student characteristics and behaviors in a longitudinal study over a 50-year timespan (using a large U.S. representative sample of high school students). We addressed the question of whether behaviors in school have any long-lasting effects for one's later life. Specifically, we investigated the role of being a responsible student, interest in school, writing skills, and reading skills in predicting educ…
The Diversifying Experience Model: Taking a Broader Conceptual View of the Multiculturalism-Creativity Link
We examine the multiculturalism-creativity link from the perspective of diversifying experiences research. Multicultural experiences can be construed as diversifying experiences-highly unusual and unexpected events or situations (e.g., unusual educational experiences, early life adversity) that push individuals outside the frameworks of their ordinary everyday lives, forcing them to embrace new and uncommon ideas. Our review identifies a range of…
Whose “Storm and Stress” Is It? Parent and Child Reports of Personality Development in the Transition to Early Adolescence
The present study investigated Big Five personality trait development in the transition to early adolescence (from the fifth to eighth grade). Personality traits were assessed in 2,761 (47% female) students over a 3‐year period of time. Youths’ self‐reports and parent ratings were used to test for cross‐informant agreement. Acquiescent responding and measurement invariance were established with latent variable modeling. Growth curve models reveal…
Is doing your homework associated with becoming more conscientious
Four Psychological Perspectives on Creativity
Creativity is a unique feature of human thinking and behavior that is essential to our species' survival, future progress, and even the rise and fall of civilizations. To understand this highly complex phenomenon, we need to adopt an interdisciplinary and multimethod approach. Because creativity happens at many different levels both intra‐ and interindividual, the psychological science of creativity currently lacks a strong paradigmatic coherence…
The associations of birth order with personality and intelligence in a representative sample of U.S. high school students
Student characteristics and behaviors at age 12 predict occupational success 40 years later over and above childhood IQ and parental socioeconomic status
Drawing on a 2-wave longitudinal sample spanning 40 years from childhood (age 12) to middle adulthood (age 52), the present study was designed to examine how student characteristics and behaviors in late childhood (assessed in Wave 1 in 1968) predict career success in adulthood (assessed in Wave 2 in 2008). We examined the influence of parental socioeconomic status (SES), childhood intelligence, and student characteristics and behaviors (inattent…
Psychopathology, adversity, and creativity: Diversifying experiences in the development of eminent African Americans
Symptoms associated with mental illness have been hypothesized to relate to creative achievement because they act as diversifying experiences. However, this theory has only been tested on predominantly majority-culture samples. Do tendencies toward mental illness still predict eminent creativity when they coexist with other diversifying experiences, such as early parental death, minority-status, or poverty? These alternative diversifying experien…
Can personality traits and intelligence compensate for background disadvantage? Predicting status attainment in adulthood
This study investigated the interplay of family background and individual differences, such as personality traits and intelligence (measured in a large U.S. representative sample of high school students; N = 81,000) in predicting educational attainment, annual income, and occupational prestige 11 years later. Specifically, we tested whether individual differences followed 1 of 3 patterns in relation to parental socioeconomic status (SES) when pre…
Multiculturalism and Creativity: Effects of Cultural Context, Bicultural Identity, and Ideational Fluency
Today’s diverse society often includes culturally rich environments that contain cues pertaining to more than one culture. These cultural cues can shape cognitive processes, such as creativity. Recent evidence shows that bicultural experience enhances creativity, and that for culture-related domains, this effect is particularly evident among biculturals who blend their two cultural identities. The present study tested whether enhanced creativity …
The link between dispositional pride and creative thinking depends on current mood
Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility
A process-dissociation examination of the cognitive processes underlying unconscious thought
Can personality traits and intelligence compensate for background disadvantage? Predicting status attainment in adulthood
This study investigated the interplay of family background and individual differences, such as personality traits and intelligence (measured in a large U.S. representative sample of high school students; N = 81,000) in predicting educational attainment, annual income, and occupational prestige 11 years later. Specifically, we tested whether individual differences followed 1 of 3 patterns in relation to parental socioeconomic status (SES) when pre…
Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility
Sixteen going on sixty-six: A longitudinal study of personality stability and change across 50 years
38, respectively), to validate the personality scales and estimate measurement error. This was the first study to test personality stability/change over a 50-year time span in which the same data source was tapped (i.e., self-report). This allowed us to use 4 different methods (rank-order stability, mean-level change, individual-level change, and profile stability) answering different developmental questions. We also systematically tested gender …
Student characteristics and behaviors at age 12 predict occupational success 40 years later over and above childhood IQ and parental socioeconomic status
Drawing on a 2-wave longitudinal sample spanning 40 years from childhood (age 12) to middle adulthood (age 52), the present study was designed to examine how student characteristics and behaviors in late childhood (assessed in Wave 1 in 1968) predict career success in adulthood (assessed in Wave 2 in 2008). We examined the influence of parental socioeconomic status (SES), childhood intelligence, and student characteristics and behaviors (inattent…
How you behave in school predicts life success above and beyond family background, broad traits, and cognitive ability
In this study, we investigated the role of student characteristics and behaviors in a longitudinal study over a 50-year timespan (using a large U.S. representative sample of high school students). We addressed the question of whether behaviors in school have any long-lasting effects for one's later life. Specifically, we investigated the role of being a responsible student, interest in school, writing skills, and reading skills in predicting educ…
Is doing your homework associated with becoming more conscientious
The Diversifying Experience Model: Taking a Broader Conceptual View of the Multiculturalism-Creativity Link
We examine the multiculturalism-creativity link from the perspective of diversifying experiences research. Multicultural experiences can be construed as diversifying experiences-highly unusual and unexpected events or situations (e.g., unusual educational experiences, early life adversity) that push individuals outside the frameworks of their ordinary everyday lives, forcing them to embrace new and uncommon ideas. Our review identifies a range of…
The associations of birth order with personality and intelligence in a representative sample of U.S. high school students
The link between dispositional pride and creative thinking depends on current mood
Psychopathology, adversity, and creativity: Diversifying experiences in the development of eminent African Americans
Symptoms associated with mental illness have been hypothesized to relate to creative achievement because they act as diversifying experiences. However, this theory has only been tested on predominantly majority-culture samples. Do tendencies toward mental illness still predict eminent creativity when they coexist with other diversifying experiences, such as early parental death, minority-status, or poverty? These alternative diversifying experien…
A process-dissociation examination of the cognitive processes underlying unconscious thought
Self-Esteem Across the Lifespan: Issues and Interventions , edited by Mary H. Guindon
Self-esteem is a core issue for both basic and applied psychologists, as well as for the general public. Over the past years, there has been a growing interest in self-esteem research, as evidenced
The link between dispositional pride and creative thinking depends on current mood
Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility
A process-dissociation examination of the cognitive processes underlying unconscious thought
Multiculturalism and Creativity: Effects of Cultural Context, Bicultural Identity, and Ideational Fluency
Today’s diverse society often includes culturally rich environments that contain cues pertaining to more than one culture. These cultural cues can shape cognitive processes, such as creativity. Recent evidence shows that bicultural experience enhances creativity, and that for culture-related domains, this effect is particularly evident among biculturals who blend their two cultural identities. The present study tested whether enhanced creativity …
Four Psychological Perspectives on Creativity
Creativity is a unique feature of human thinking and behavior that is essential to our species' survival, future progress, and even the rise and fall of civilizations. To understand this highly complex phenomenon, we need to adopt an interdisciplinary and multimethod approach. Because creativity happens at many different levels both intra‐ and interindividual, the psychological science of creativity currently lacks a strong paradigmatic coherence…
The associations of birth order with personality and intelligence in a representative sample of U.S. high school students
Student characteristics and behaviors at age 12 predict occupational success 40 years later over and above childhood IQ and parental socioeconomic status
Drawing on a 2-wave longitudinal sample spanning 40 years from childhood (age 12) to middle adulthood (age 52), the present study was designed to examine how student characteristics and behaviors in late childhood (assessed in Wave 1 in 1968) predict career success in adulthood (assessed in Wave 2 in 2008). We examined the influence of parental socioeconomic status (SES), childhood intelligence, and student characteristics and behaviors (inattent…
Psychopathology, adversity, and creativity: Diversifying experiences in the development of eminent African Americans
Symptoms associated with mental illness have been hypothesized to relate to creative achievement because they act as diversifying experiences. However, this theory has only been tested on predominantly majority-culture samples. Do tendencies toward mental illness still predict eminent creativity when they coexist with other diversifying experiences, such as early parental death, minority-status, or poverty? These alternative diversifying experien…
Can personality traits and intelligence compensate for background disadvantage? Predicting status attainment in adulthood
This study investigated the interplay of family background and individual differences, such as personality traits and intelligence (measured in a large U.S. representative sample of high school students; N = 81,000) in predicting educational attainment, annual income, and occupational prestige 11 years later. Specifically, we tested whether individual differences followed 1 of 3 patterns in relation to parental socioeconomic status (SES) when pre…
Whose “Storm and Stress” Is It? Parent and Child Reports of Personality Development in the Transition to Early Adolescence
The present study investigated Big Five personality trait development in the transition to early adolescence (from the fifth to eighth grade). Personality traits were assessed in 2,761 (47% female) students over a 3‐year period of time. Youths’ self‐reports and parent ratings were used to test for cross‐informant agreement. Acquiescent responding and measurement invariance were established with latent variable modeling. Growth curve models reveal…
Is doing your homework associated with becoming more conscientious
How you behave in school predicts life success above and beyond family background, broad traits, and cognitive ability
In this study, we investigated the role of student characteristics and behaviors in a longitudinal study over a 50-year timespan (using a large U.S. representative sample of high school students). We addressed the question of whether behaviors in school have any long-lasting effects for one's later life. Specifically, we investigated the role of being a responsible student, interest in school, writing skills, and reading skills in predicting educ…
The Diversifying Experience Model: Taking a Broader Conceptual View of the Multiculturalism-Creativity Link
We examine the multiculturalism-creativity link from the perspective of diversifying experiences research. Multicultural experiences can be construed as diversifying experiences-highly unusual and unexpected events or situations (e.g., unusual educational experiences, early life adversity) that push individuals outside the frameworks of their ordinary everyday lives, forcing them to embrace new and uncommon ideas. Our review identifies a range of…
Sixteen going on sixty-six: A longitudinal study of personality stability and change across 50 years
38, respectively), to validate the personality scales and estimate measurement error. This was the first study to test personality stability/change over a 50-year time span in which the same data source was tapped (i.e., self-report). This allowed us to use 4 different methods (rank-order stability, mean-level change, individual-level change, and profile stability) answering different developmental questions. We also systematically tested gender …
The co-development of chores and effortful control among Mexican-origin youth and prospective work outcomes
Open to laugh: The role of openness to experience in humor production ability
Hurricane exposure and personality development
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the role of natural disaster adversity on personality development in the wake of a hurricane, and the moderating role of previous hurricane exposure. METHOD: We used a two-wave longitudinal design and a diverse sample of emerging adults (n = 691; mean age = 22 years; 72% females, 27% European American, 29% Latino, 23% Asian American, 15% African American, 6% Multiracial/Other) who were exposed to one of the most damaging h…
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors
People who experience more hurricane exposure tend to perceive worse diet changes. • Extraversion related to better perceived changes in overall health. • Neuroticism related to worse perceived changes in health, sleep, diet, exercise. • Little evidence for moderation by personality in hurricane-health associations. Using data from a retrospective pre-/post-longitudinal study of young adults impacted by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 (N = 330), we inve…
Life goal development, educational attainment, and occupational outcomes: A 12-year, multisample longitudinal study
Life goals play a major role in shaping people's lives and careers. Although life goals have prior documented associations with occupational and other life outcomes, no prior studies have investigated associations between life goal development and occupational outcomes. Using two representative samples of Icelandic youth (Sample 1: n = 485, Sample 2: n = 1,339), followed across 12 years from adolescence to young adulthood, we examined life goal d…
Are androgynous people more creative than gender conforming people
Diversifying Experiences, Personality, and Creativity
Which life experiences, personality and social factors enable people to succeed in life and make important creative contributions to society? And why do only some people show resilience or even thrive in the face of adversity? My research program is dedicated to understanding the precursors of career success and creativity, as well as the underlying developmental processes. I review two theoretical models that my colleagues and I have proposed: (…
Hurricane exposure, character traits, and hurricane event centrality
The effect of social comparison feedback on creative performance and the moderating roles of creative self-efficacy and creative personal identity
The role of self-conscious emotions in everyday creativity: A daily diary study
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (11 works) · Personality (11 works) · Big Five personality traits (9 works) · Creativity (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)