Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Personality Traits

Personality traits are the relatively stable, measurable dimensions of individual difference that describe characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving across situations and over time. Trait theory treats these dimensions as continuous, allowing individuals to be positioned along axes that summarize te…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 94× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2474-9273 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Personality traits are the relatively stable, measurable dimensions of individual difference that describe characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving across situations and over time. Trait theory treats these dimensions as continuous, allowing individuals to be positioned along axes that summarize tendencies toward, for example, emotional reactivity, conscientious self-regulation, sociability, or openness to experience. Traits are partly heritable, develop and consolidate through childhood and adolescence, and predict consequential outcomes in health, achievement, relationships, and psychological adjustment. In clinical and developmental psychology, trait-level variation helps explain differential vulnerability to disorders and differential response to intervention, and extreme or inflexible trait configurations underpin personality pathology. Work connected to this topic examines the development of identity and life story in adolescence and its protective role against aggressiveness and depression, individual differences relevant to sleep and health behavior, neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and ADHD where late or gendered diagnosis reflects trait expression, impulse-control phenomena, and the patient and practitioner dispositions that shape therapeutic relationships. Methods include self-report inventories, observer ratings, and structured assessment. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on the structure, measurement, development, and clinical significance of personality traits and their links to mental health and behavior.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386
2018

Doctor-Patient Relationship as Dancing a Dance

Luis Turabian JoseCorresponding author
Specialist in Family and Community Medicine, Health Center Santa Maria de Benquerencia. Regional Health Service of Castilla la Mancha (SESCAM), Toledo, Spain.
Exact topic Family Medicine Cited by 29 doi:10.14302/issn.2640-690X.jfm-18-2485
2018

Drug Abuse among Street Children

Muhammed Bah YahyaCorresponding author
University of The Gambia, School of Arts and Sciences, Brikama Campus, The Gambia, West Africa
Exact topic Clinical Research In HIV AIDS And Prevention Cited by 52 doi:10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-18-2291

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 94 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Personality Traits, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Behavior Therapy And Mental Health (ISSN 2474-9273).

Journal editorial board
Dr. Rabiul Ahasan · Saudi Arabia Shahid Ullah · Australia Roberto Maniglio · Italy

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