Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Furnham, Adrian"
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Do you have to be mad to believe in conspiracy theories? Personality disorders and conspiracy theories
Furnham, Adrian; Grover, Simmy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study explored the relationship between belief in conspiracy theories and the personality disorders. A sample of 475 British adults, aged around 30 years, completed measures of Belief in Conspiracy Theories (CTs) and ... -
Doctors in distress: The personality profile of derailing doctors
Joffe, Megan; Grover, Simmy; King, Jenny; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective: This study looked at the bright and dark-side personality profile of distressed and potentially derailing doctors (82% male). The derailing doctors were on average 48.75 years old, and from many specialities, ... -
Does emotional intelligence and resilience moderate the relationship between the Dark Triad and personal and work burnout?
Furnham, Adrian; Grover, Simmy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper used moderator analysis to test whether emotional intelligence and resilience moderated the relationship between the Dark Triad variables and burnout. 232 adults completed measures of all variables. Primary ... -
Early indicators of self-esteem in teenagers: Findings from a nationally representative sample
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study explored a longitudinal data set of 3096 British sixteen year olds with data collected in 1970, 1980, and 1986. It examined how parental social status at birth; intelligence, locus of control and behavioural ... -
Early Predictors of Alpha and Beta Personality Factors in Adulthood
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study examined the predictors of two higher factors of personality (Alpha and Beta) using a large nationally representative sample. In total, we had 5,476 participants data on family social status measured at birth, ... -
Educational achievement and traits emotional stability and agreeableness as predictors of the occurrence of backache in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Green, Andy; Chapman, Benjamin P.; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study investigated the associations between psychological as well as social factors in childhood and adulthood and the occurrence of adulthood back pain in a longitudinal birth cohort study. The analytic sample comprises ... -
Effect of directness of exposure and trauma type on Mental Health Literacy of PTSD
Lee, Cheuk Yan; Furnham, Adrian; Merritt, Christopher (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Research has demonstrated that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most widely recognized mental disorders (Furnham & Lousley, 2012), but recognition is affected by trauma type (Merritt et al., ... -
The effect of gender stereotype content, program congruity, and liking on unconventional French television advertisement recall and purchase intention.
Gordon, Pauline; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study investigated the effect of the portrayal of unconventional gender roles in advert content, congruent program context, and liking of the advert on subsequent memory and purchase intention. In all, 186 French ... -
Effects of background noise and extraversion on reading comprehension performance
Gheewalla, Fatema; McClelland, Alastair; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study was concerned with the effects of acoustic distraction at work. Using a within-subject study we aimed to investigate the effect of background distraction on cognitive performance. In the presence of silence, ... -
Emotional stability, conscientiousness, and self-reported hypertension in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective: To investigate social and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood associated with self-reported hypertension in adulthood. Method: Using data from the National Child Development Study, a nationally ... -
Exploring the Dark side of conscientiousness. The relationship between conscientiousness and its potential derailers: perfectionism and narcissism
Coleman, Geoff; Furnham, Adrian; Treglown, Luke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The current study aimed to identify what individual differences and situational variables cause derailment in highly conscientious people. Data were from a representative working sample of 716 participants across 27 ... -
Exploring the relationship between personalityand money scripts while controlling for demography,ideology, and self-esteem
Furnham, Adrian; Cuppello, Stephen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Financial planners seek to learn more about their clients' personalities andmoney scripts due to the significant influence these factors have on financialbehavior and decision-making. This study surveyed 288 adults with a ... -
A facet measure of money madness: A preliminary analyses of a new questionnaire
Furnham, Adrian; Horne, George (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study reports on the development of a new, facet level questionnaire to measure “money madness” based on a well-established, four-factor model. It reviews the papers currently available to researchers on those with ... -
Factors affecting adult trait Neuroticism in a nationally representative sample
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study explores factors in childhood and adulthood that affect adult trait Neuroticism in a large, nationally representative sample. 5785 participants provided information on family social background measured at birth; ... -
Factors influencing adult savings and investment: Findings from a nationally representative sample
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study explored a longitudinal data set of over 5766 adults examining factors that influence adult savings and investment. Data were collected at birth, in childhood (at age 11) and adulthood (at ages 33 and 50 yrs) ... -
Factors Influencing Children’s Behavioral Problems: Results from a Longitudinal Study of British Children from Birth to Seven Years
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study explored a longitudinal data set of over 10,663 children at age 7 years to examine various psychological and sociological factors that possibly influenced their behavioural problems. Data were collected when ... -
Few sex differences in dark side personality scale domains and facets
Furnham, Adrian; Grover, Simmy (Journal article, 2022)This study examined sex differences in domain and facet scores on a new dark-side personality test (Hogan Development Survey: Form 5) measuring sub-clinical personality disorders. Over 50,000 adults completed the new HDS ... -
Financial Distress and Money Attitudes
Fenton-O’Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study was concerned with the construction and validation of a Financial Distress Index (FDI). A stratified (U.K.) sample of 2000 adults completed the new measure, as well as measures of financial anxiety, general ... -
GHQ score changes from teenage to young adulthood
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study investigated the change in the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) scores from teenage years to young adulthood using a large, nationally representative sample in the UK. It took account of socio-demographic ... -
High potential personality and intelligence
Furnham, Adrian; Treglown, Luke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The present study investigated the relationship between six high flyer personality traits and intelligence measured at the domain and facet level. In all, 820 adults completed a multidimensional High Flyers Personality ...