Andrei Ion

University of Bucharest | Unibuc · Department of Psychology

The current study investigates the incremental validity of emic personality traits over etic traits and GMA in predicting job performance. Demographics, cognitive ability and personality data from two samples, of Chinese and Romanian workers from the same company, were collected and contrasted with performance data collected at two points in time....

In two studies, based on four samples and more than 600 participants, the authors examined applicant reactions, criterion and incremental validity, and differential prediction of emotional intelligence (EI) in personnel selection using the Mayer–Salovey–Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test. The first study examined applicant reactions in terms of fac...

Using data provided by the Self-Directed Search (SDS) on a sample of 1,519 participants comprising 3 subsamples containing high school students, university students, and working adults, the authors examine the structure of vocational interests in Romania. Three competing structural models of vocational interests (Holland's circumplex model and Gati...

Based on four samples and more than 2,000 participants, the authors examined the structural equivalence, discriminant validity as well as criterion and incremental validity of the Romanian version of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), an ability-based measure of emotional intelligence. Results suggest that the Romanian v...

Our research perspective can be seen as an extension of standard linguistic hypothesis, focusing on the metaphorical expressions used in spoken language and their potential to describe personality. The aim of the study was to demonstrate that metaphorical expressions can be used as descriptors of personality. The subsequent objective was to develop...

Personality traits and affective functioning have been closely linked. Empirical evidence suggests that the Five‐Factor Model traits have been linked with Panskepp's six primary affective systems, as measured by the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales: SEEKING, PLAY, CARE (positive emotions) and FEAR, SADNESS, ANGER (negative emotions). Obje...

This study analyzes grit's validity in predicting several work-relevant outcomes (in-role performance, counter-productive work behaviors, job satisfaction) over the Five-Factor Model, and core self-evaluations. Hierarchical regression analyses were used in order to estimate grit's incremental validity over the canonical five-factor dimensions and c...

Our 10-day diary investigation anchored in dynamic personality theories, such as Whole Trait Theory examined (a) whether within-person variability in two broad personality traits Extraversion and Neuroticism is consistently predicted by daily events, (b) whether positive and negative affect, respectively partly mediate this relationship and (c) the...

Childhood maltreatment is a major risk factor for psychopathology, and increasing evidence suggests that emotion regulation is one of the underlying mechanisms. However, most of this evidence comes from single assessments of habitual emotion regulation, which may not overlap with spontaneous emotion regulation in daily life and which fail to accoun...

This study extends earlier works that focused on stressor appraisals (stressor as challenge and stressor as hindrance) as mediators of stressors and psychological strains. We also tested whether psychological strains would then affect organisational outcomes. Survey data were gathered from a general sample of 237 full-time employees at three time p...

Childhood maltreatment is a major risk factor for psychopathology, and increasing evidence suggests that emotion regulation (ER) is one of the underlying mechanisms. However, most of this evidence comes from cross-sectional studies and single assessments of habitual ER strategies. In the present study, we investigated the relation between history o...

This study assessed the validity of the Behavior Assessment System for Children 2nd Edition, by providing evidence based on a multitraitmultimethod (MTMM) analysis performed on data obtained with a culturally adapted form of the test. The study included two Romanian samples (161 adolescents aged 12-18 years and 91 children aged 8-12 years) that wer...

There has been a surge in media interest regarding the generational effects on the distribution and structure of personality traits. This article examines time and generational effects on the Five Factor personality traits. Hierarchical Age-Period- Cohort Modeling (HAPC) was deployed on a sample of 30,722 participants assembled from pooled repeated...

To look forward, it is necessary to look back and learn. History is more than just facts about the past; it is a narrative told from a particular perspective. A proverb from Africa, 'Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter,' captures this best. Most of the scholarship about psychological assessment c...

Past negative time perspective (PNTP), characterized by rumination on painful past experiences, is generally considered harmful to a person’s well-being. However, there is reason to suspect that a PNTP may not make matters worse if a high PNTP is consistent with culture, as in the case of India. Drawing on the person–culture matching hypothesis, we...

Over the past decades, the study of personality gained momentum in the field of sport psychology, a prime example being the increased number of publications relating personality to performance in extreme sports. The aim of the present investigation was twofold: to relate Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality traits with various aspects of climbing pe...

The main purpose of the current research was to examine the cross-ethnic variability of various anxiety measurement frameworks, in an understudied East European culture. Three anxiety measures, the Anxiety scale from the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI; Millon et al. 2006, 2010), the Trait-Anxiety scale from the State-Trait Anxiety I...

In their focal article, Highhouse et al. (2020) present a thoughtful and thorough evaluation and discussion of journal prestige. Primarily through an extensive survey of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) members, they assessed the perceived prestige of many journals and investigated differences in these perceptions bet...

Based on four samples and more than 2,000 participants, the authors examined the structural equivalence, discriminant validity as well as criterion and incremental validity of the Romanian version of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), an ability-based measure of emotional intelligence. Results suggest that the Romanian v...

The present paper investigated the way in which implicit gender stereotypes can influence theperception of female and male leaders within organisations. We created an experimental taskbased on Greenwald and Banaji’s research (1995), methodology that is based on implicitassociations. The present study was conducted on 81 participants, and the result...

Gender- and age-related differences in the variability of various human attributes and abilities have been investigated. This article investigates the age and gender differences in the variability of Holland’s six vocational dimensions with a sample including 1,519 participants, divided into four age groups: early adolescence (12–15 years old), ado...

One of the recent developments in personality psychology is the emergence of a new construct, Grit. Its emergence led to a proliferation of studies advancing Grit as a significant predictor of various positive outcomes. So far, little attention has been paid to testing its relevance for various work-related outcomes. The present paper unraveled Gri...

Traditionally, organizational psychologists rely on personality measures in order to make personnel selection decisions. However, the extent to which the measurement of personality traits is varies across high-stake test-taking context is not entirely understood. Drawing on a Romanian dataset, we explored different levels of invariance between high...

Across 5 different samples, totaling more than 1,600 participants from India, Indonesia, Oman, Romania, and Thailand, the authors address the question of cross-cultural replicability of a personality structure, while exploring the utility of exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) as a data analysis technique in cross-cultural personality r...