PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES An International Journal of Research into the Structure and Development of Personality, and the Causation of Individual Differences Volume 22, 1997 CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX © PERGAMON PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES An International Journal of Research into the Structure and Development of Personality, and the Causation of Individual Differences Editors-in-Chief Professor H. J. EYSENCK and Dr S. B. G. EYSENCK Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SES 8AF Editorial Board Professor M. AMELANG Professor M. W. EYSENCK Professor D. SCHALLING University of Heidelberg, Royal Holloway and Bedford Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Germany New College, Surrey Sweden Professor A. ANGLEITNER Professor F. FARLEY Professor T. SHIGEHISA University of Bielefeld, University of Wisconsin, U.S.A. Tokyo Kasei-Gakuin University, Germany Professor L. GOLDBERG Japan Professor J. BREBNER University of Oregon, U.S.A. Professor C. SPIELBERGER University of Adelaide, S. Australia Dr S. E. HAMPSON University of S. Florida, U.S.A. Professor N. BRODY University of Surrey Professor R. STELMACK Wesleyan University, Conn., Professor A. R. JENSEN University of Ottawa, Canada U.S.A. Kelseyville, U.S.A. Professor J. STRELAU Professor H. CARPINTERO Professor R. LYNN University of Warszawa, Poland University Complutense de Madrid, — University of Ulster, N. Ireland Professor M. ZUCKERMAN Spain Professor P. NETTER University of Delaware, U.S.A. Dr LINDON EAVES Justus-Liebig- Universitat Giessen, Medical College of Virginia, U.S.A. Germany Book Reviews: Dr G. Wilson, Institute of Psychiatry, London Publishing Office: Elsevier Science Ltd, Bampfylde Street, Exeter EX1 2AH, England [T7e/. Exeter (01392) 251558; Fax 425370] Production Editor: Jacqueline Turner (e-mail: [email protected]) Publication Frequency: Published monthly—2 volumes/annum Advertising Office: Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England [Tel. Oxford (01865) 843000; Fax 843010) Subscription Details: Annual Institutional Subscription Rates 1997: Europe, The CIS and Japan NLG 1667.00; all other countries US$1029.00. Dutch Guilder prices exclude VAT. Non-VAT registered customers in the European Community will be charged the appropriate VAT in addition to the price listed. Prices include postage and insurance and are subject to change without notice. Any enquiry relating to subscriptions should be sent to: The Americas: Elsevier Science Customer Support Department, P.O. Box 945, New York, NY 10010, U.S.A. [Tel.: (+ 1) 212-633-3730/1-888 4ES-INFO. Fax: (+1) 212-633-3680. E-mail: usinfo-fia elsevier.co.com]. Japan: Elsevier Science Customer Support Department, 9-15 Higashi-Azabu |-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan [Tel.: (+81) 3-5561-5033. Fax: (+81) 3-5561-S047. E-mail: kyf04035(@niftyserve.or.jp]. Asia Pacific (excluding Japan): Elsevier Science (Singapore) Pte Ltd, No. 1 Temasek Avenue, 17-01 Millenia Tower, Singapore 039192 [Tel.: (+ 65) 434-3727. Fax: (+65) 337-2230. E-muil: asiainfo(a:elsevier.com.co.sg]. Rest of the World: Elsevier Science Customer Service Department, P.O. Box 211, 1001 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Tel.: (+31) 20-485-3757. Fax: (+31) 20-485-3432. E-mail: nlinfo-f(@ elsevier.n]. Back Issues: Back issues of all previously published volumes are available direct from Elsevier Science Offices (Oxford and New York). Complete volumes and single issues can be purchased for 1992-1996. Earlier issues are available in high quality photo-duplicated copies as complete volumes only. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY. Personality and Individual Differences (ISSN 0191-8869) is published monthly in two volumes per annum by Elsevier Science Ltd. The Boulevard, Langford Lane. Kidlington. Oxford OXS 1GB. U.K. The annual subscription in the U.S.A. is US$1029.00. Personality and Individual Differences is distributed by Mercury Airfreight International Ltd, 2323 Randolph Avenue, Avenel, NJ 07001-2413, U.S.A. POSTMASTER: Please send address corrections to Personality and Individual Differences, c/o Elsevier Science Regional Sales Office. Customer Support Department, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10010, U.S.A. Copyright © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd LIST OF CONTENTS Volume 22, Number 1 The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) Karin Schermelleh-Engel, Georg H. Eifert, Perceived competence and trait anxiety as determinants Helfried Moosbrugger and Dirk Frank of pain coping strategies Robert P. Tett and Cynthia A. Palmer The validity of handwriting elements in relation to self- report personality trait measure Jo Brunas-Wagstaff, Alice Tilley, 19 Functional and dysfunctional impulsivity in children Michelle Verity, Sheila Ford and their relationship to Eysenck’s impulsiveness and and Doreen Thompson venturesomeness dimensions Glenn D. Wilson 27 Gender differences in sexual fantasy: an evolutionary analysis Espen Roysamb Risk behaviour: towards a model of affectively con- strued action Robert R. Yeung and David R. Hemsley Personality, exercise and psychological well-being: static relationships in the community Robert Loo and Kunio Shiomi 55 A cross-cultural examination of the Kirton Adaption— Innovation Inventory David Rawlings and Andrew Toogood Using a ‘taboo response’ measure to examine the relationship between’ divergent thinking and psychoticism Lazar Stankov and Richard D. Roberts 69 Mental speed is not the ‘basic’ process of intelligence Paul M. Kohn and Colleen O’Brien 85 The situational response inventory: a measure of adaptive coping K. F. Halamandaris and K. G. Power 93 Individual differences, dysfunctional attitudes, and social support: a study of the psychosocial adjustment to university life of home students Benjamin H. Newberry, William B. Clark, 105 An American English version of the Pavlovian Ronald L. Crawford, Jan Strelau, Temperament Survey Alois Angleitner, Jan Hollinger Jones and Andrzej Eliasz Notes and Shorter Communications Edward C. Chang 115 Irrational beliefs and negative life stress: testing a diathesis—stress model of depressive symptoms Christopher Alan Lewis, Ciaran Lanigan, 119 Religiosity and happiness: no evidence for an associ- Stephen Joseph and Jan de Fockert ation among undergraduates Kee-Lee Chou 123 The Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Young- sters: reliability and validity of a Chinese translation Harrison D. Kane, Briley E. Proctor 127 Reliability and validity of a non-verbal measure of the and John H. Kranzler speed and efficiency of long-term memory retrieval iil iV Contents Wendy Snowden 131 Evidence from an analysis of 2000 errors and omissions made in IQ tests by a small sample of schoolchildren, undergoing vitamin and mineral supplementation, that speed of processing is an important factor in IQ performance Melanie Tucker and Nigel W. Bond The roles of gender, sex role, and disgust in fear of animals Corrigendum Volume 22, Number 2 iil The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) Edmund Keogh and Christopher C. French 141 The effects of mood manipulation and trait anxiety on susceptibility to distraction Jakob Smari and Helga Valtysdottir 151 Dispositional coping, psychological distress and disease- control in diabetes Del Thiessen, Robert K. Young 157 Social pressures for assortative mating and Melinda Delgado Thomas R. Carretta 165 Negligible sex differences in the relation of cognitive and and Malcolm James Ree psychomotor abilities David L. Robinson 173 A test of the Hendrickson postulate that reduced EEG response variance causes increased AEP contour length: implications for the ‘neural transmission errors’ theory of intelligence William Pavot, Frank Fujita and Ed Diener The relation between self-aspect congruence, personality and subjective well-being Monroe A. Bruch, Kathy M. Rivet, Shyness, alcohol expectancies, and drinking behavior: Richard G. Heimberg and Meryl A. Levin replication and extension of a suppressor effect Thomas Li-Ping Tang, Linda J. Baldwin Locus of control as a moderator of the self-reported and Alan G. Frost performance feedback—personal sacrifice relationship Gerhard Stemmler Selective activation of traits: boundary conditions for the activation of anger B. M. Pedro, D. R. Hemsley, J. A. Gray, Lack of relationship between prepulse inhibition and S. H. Jones and N. S. Gray a CSTQ-defined positive dimension of schizotypy Jan Kaiser, Andrzej Beauvale The evoked cardiac response as a function of cognitive and Jaroslaw Bener load differs between subjects separated on the main personality dimensions L. Lu and J. B. Shih Personality and happiness: is mental health a mediator? Erik Falkum, Miranda Olff Revisiting the factor structure of the ways of coping and Olaf G. Aasland checklist: a three-dimensional view of the problem- focused coping scale. A study among Norwegian physicians James McKenzie, Gary Tindell The great triumvirate: agreement between lexically and and Janet French psycho-physiologically based models of personality Contents Notes and Shorter Communications Stephen Joseph, Tim Dalgleish, 279 Impulsivity and post-traumatic stress Sian Thrasher and William Yule Thomas Merten and Kathrin Siebert 283 A comparison of computerized and conventional administration of the EPQ-R and the CRS: further data on the Merten and Ruch (1996) study A. F. Jorm, A. S. Henderson, P. A. Jacomb, Quantitative trait loci for neuroticism: an_ allelic L. Croft and S. Easteal association study with the serotonin receptor (HTR2) and monoamine oxidase A (MAQA) genes Michael Schredl, Sharon Jochum Dream recall, visual memory, and absorption in and Shirley Souguenet imaginings J. H. Kerr and J. Viaminkx Gender differences in the experience of risk Travis Hinze, Joseph Doster The relationship of conservatism and _ cognitive- and Victor C. Joe complexity Book Review Volume 22, Number 3 The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) Michael C. Seto, Natasha A. Khattar, Deception and sexual strategy in psychopathy Martin L. Lalumiére and Vernon L. Quinsey Caroline Davis, Gordon Claridge Reflections on narcissism: conflicts about body-image and Debbie Cerullo perceptions in women Karl Schweizer and Rainer Schneider Social optimism as generalized expectancy of a positive outcome Lynn Matykiewicz, Linda La Grange, Adjudicated adolescent males: measures of urinary 5- Peter Vance, Mu Wang and Edward Reyes hydroxyindoleacetic acid and reactive hypoglycemia Janet Wingrove and Alyson J. Bond Impulsivity: a state as well as trait variable. Does mood awareness explain low correlations between trait and behavioural measures of impulsivity? Timo Lajunen, Angela Corry, Impression management and self-deception in traffic Heikki Summala and Laurence Hartley behaviour inventories Ellen B. Braaten and Lee A. Rosen Emotional reactions in adults with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Plamen Kalchev, Jorj Balev The Coolidge Axis II Inventory (CATI): evidences for and Frederick Coolidge psychometric and factorial validity for Bulgarian non- clinical sample Robert T. Kaiser and Daniel J. Ozer Emotional stability and goal-related stress Donald M. Dougherty, James M. Bjork, The relationship between self-reported menstrual symp- David Huang and F. Gerald Moeller tomatology and aggression measured in the laboratory Marie Andrew and Christopher Cronin Two measures of sensation seeking as predictors of alcohol use among high school males vi Contents Richard Oldani 403 Causes of increases in achievement motivation: is the personality influenced by prenatal environment? Robert M. Roth and Jacinthe Baribeau 411 Gender and schizotypal personality features Enrico DiTommaso and Barry Spinner 417 Social and emotional loneliness: a re-examination of Weiss’ typology of loneliness Demetrios S. Alexopoulos 429 Reliability and validity of Heim’s AH4 in Greece Edward M. Miller 433 The survival of genes for stupidity: consistency of fitness and heritability Corrigendum Volume 22, Number 4 The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) Eddie Harmon-Jones, Ernest S. Barratt Impulsiveness, aggression, reading and the P300 of the and Cindy Wigg event-related potential B. Brocke, K. G. Tasche and A. Beauducel Biopsychological foundations of extraversion: differen- tial effort reactivity and state control Lara A. Warburton, Baruch Fishman Coping with the possibility of testing HIV-positive and Samuel W. Perry* Joachim Stoéber Trait anxiety and pessimistic appraisal of risk and chance Willibald Ruch, Gabriele Kohler To be in good or bad humour: construction of the state and Christoph van Thriel form of the State—Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory—STCI Alan Bedford and Ian J. Deary The Personal Disturbance Scale (DSSI/sAD): develop- ment, use and structure David W. Chan Self-concept domains and global self-worth among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong Linda D. Taylor MMPI-2 and ballet majors Birendra K. Sinha and David C. Watson Psychosocial predictors of personality disorder traits in a non-clinical sample Adrian Furnham, Tina Tan Waist-to-hip ratio and preferences for body shape: a and Chris McManus replication and extension Ian J. Deary, Shonagh Scott Neuroticism, alexithymia and medically unexplained and Janet A. Wilson symptoms Edvin Bru, Sven Svebak, Back pain, dysphoric versus euphoric moods and the Reidar J. Mykletun experience of stress and effort in female hospital staff and Jens Petter Gitlesen Yechiel Klar, Tal Gabai and Yehudit Baron Depression and generalizations about the future: who overgeneralizes what? Notes and Shorter Communications Richard Lynn Intelligence in Taiwan Contents Vil Will B. Bridewell and Edward C. Chang 587 Distinguishing between anxiety, depression, and hosti- lity: relations to anger-in, anger-out, and anger control Philip J. Corr, Veena Kumari, 591 Harm avoidance and affective modulation of the startle Glenn D. Wilson, Stuart Checkley reflex: a replication and Jeffrey A. Gray Book Reviews Volume 22, Number 5 The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) Michael W. Eysenck and Cognitive biases for future negative events as a function Nazanin Derakshan of trait anxiety and social desirability Cheryl L. Rusting and Randy J. Larsen Extraversion, neuroticism and susceptibility to positive and negative affect: a test of two theoretical models Dolf Zillmann and James B. Weaver III Psychoticism in the effect of prolonged exposure to gratuitous media violence on the acceptance of violence as a preferred means of conflict resolution Michael D. Maraun Appearance and reality: is the Big Five the structure of trait descriptors? John Maltby and Christopher Alan Lewis The reliability and validity of a short scale of attitude towards Christianity among U.S.A., English, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland adults G. Ron Norton, Brian J. Cox, Personality factors associated with generalized and non- Paul L. Hewitt and Lindsay McLeod generalized social anxiety John F. Quigley, Martin F. Sherman and Personality disorder symptoms, gender, and age as Nancy C. Sherman predictors of adolescent disgust sensitivity Adrian Furnham, John Crump and Validating the NEO Personality Inventory using Josh Whelan assessor's ratings Stuart Brody, Ralf Veit and Harald Rau Lie scores are associated with less cardiovascular reactivity to baroreceptor stimulation and to mental arithmetic stress Doug Mahar, Ron Henderson and The effects of computer anxiety, state anxiety, and Frank Deane computer experience on users’ performance of computer based tasks J. Exposito and A. Andrés-Pueyo The effects of impulsivity on the perceptual and decision stages in a choice reaction time task Thomas Holtgraves and Gary Stockdale The assessment of dissociative experiences in a non- clinical population: reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Dissociative Experiences Scale Rick Howard, Lian Thomas Payamal and Response modulation deficits in psychopaths: a failure Lee Hong Neo to confirm and a reconsideration of the Patterson— Newman model Rocio Fernandez-Ballesteros, Assessing emotional expression: Spanish adaptation of Maria Dolores Zamarron, the Rationality/Emotional Defensiveness Scale Maria Angeles Ruiz, Julia Sebastian and Charles D. Spielberger Vill Contents R. J. R. Blair 731 Moral reasoning and the child with psychopathic tendencies Kevin Durrheim and Don Foster 741 Tolerance of ambiguity as a content specific construct Katrina Collins and Robert Bell 751 Personality and aggression: the dissipation—rumination scale Frank H. Walkey 757 Composite variable analysis: a simple and transparent alternative to factor analysis Notes and Shorter Communications Louise Jacobs and Stephen Joseph Cognitive Triad Inventory and its association with symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescents G. Neil Martin, Sharon J. Sadler Individual group differences in the perception and and Bahman Baluch knowledge of psychological research Marie Iannos and Marika Tiggemann Personality of the excessive exerciser Shish Pal, Radhey Shyam and Rayjbir Singh Genetic analysis of general intelligence ‘g’: a twin study Book Review Volume 22, Number 6 ill The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) J. P. Gustavsson, R. M. Weinryb, Stability and predictive ability of personality traits S. Géransson, N. L. Pedersen and M. Asberg across 9 years Maricela Alarcon and J. C. DeFries Reading performance and general cognitive ability in twins with reading difficulties and control pairs Philip J. Corr and Veena Kumari Sociability/impulsivity and attenuated dopaminergic arousal: critical flicker/fusion frequency and procedural learning Sandra Mulkens, Peter J. De Jong High blushing propensity: fearful preoccupation or and Susan M. Bogels facial coloration? Michael Farrell The influence of reward/punishment and personality pupil attainment Barbara Murphy and Glen W. Bates Adult attachment style and vulnerability to depression Michael H. Kernis, Keegan D. Greenier, Self-perceptions of reactions to doing well or poorly: the Caryn E. Herlocker, Connie R. Whisenhunt roles of stability and level of self-esteem and Teresa A. Abend D. Cartwright Lacunae and likeableness in the Big Five model of personality Terje A. Murberg, Edvin Bru, Sven Svebak, The role of objective health indicators and neuroticism Torbjorn Aarsland and Kenneth Dickstein in perceived health and psychological well-keing among patients with chronic heart failure Nancy Van Ranst and Alfons Marcoen Meaning in life of young and elderly adults: an examination of the factorial validity and invariance of the Life Regard Index Contents iX Aljoscha C. Neubauer, Rainer Riemann, 885 Intelligence and reaction times in the Hick, Sternberg Ralf Mayer and Alois Angleitner and Posner paradigms Paul M. Kohn, Colleen O’Brien 895 Adaptiveness: a moderator of the adverse impact of and Donna I. Pickering hassles? Miranda A. L. Van Tilburg, 901 Coping with homesickness: the construction of the Ad. J. J. M. Vingerhoets and Adult Homesickness Coping Questionnaire Guus L. Van Heck Anne Boland and Philippe Cappeliez Optimism and neuroticism as predictors of coping and adaptation in older women Fredrik Saboonchi and Lars-Gunnar Lundh Perfectionism, self-consciousness and anxiety Notes and Shorter Communications Edward C. Chang Positive and negative affectivity for academic and interpersonal domains: relations to general affectivity, extraversion, and neuroticism Charles F. Vetterli and John J. Furedy Correlates of intelligence in computer measured aspects of prose vocabulary: word length, diversity, and rarity Filip De Fruyt Gender and individual differences in adult crying K. Robert Bridges and Miguel Roig Academic procrastination and _ irrational thinking: a re-examination with context controlled Special Review H. J. Eysenck David L. Robinson: Brain, Mind, and Behaviour: A New Perspective on Human Nature Book Reviews