Vlad Burtăverde

Vlad Burtăverde
University of Bucharest | Unibuc · Department of Psychology

PhD

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According to evolutionary psychologists, an individual—consciously or not—who allocates resources for somatic effort focuses on homeostasis and the protection of themselves and others. During health crises, patients must choose between mobilizing their remaining resources to either recover or accepting the disease as inevitable. When patients choos...
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The Oxford Handbook of Human Mating covers the contributions and up-to-date theories and empirical evidence from scientists regarding human mating strategies. The scientific studies of human mating have only recently risen, revealing fresh discoveries about mate attraction, mate choice, marital satisfaction, and other topics. Darwin’s sexual select...
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In this research, we proposed Life history theory as an underlying framework that should explain the link between personality and driving aggression. We hypothesized that agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and the Dark Triad traits would mediate the relationship between fast life history strategies and aggressive driving. We relied on 4...
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We investigated the relationship between borderline symptoms in women and their partner’s desire to continue the relationship and relationship commitment in an aversive living environment using an experimental design. We aimed to highlight the adaptive mechanisms of borderline symptoms, which may materialize in reproductive advantages for women in...
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Despite the evidence of cross-cultural validity regarding the Dark Triad traits' internal structure, there are still questions to be answered related to the Dark Triad traits. We intended to inspect the Short Dark Triad's psychometric properties and conduct a network analysis on a Romanian sample. Relying on a large Romanian sample (N = 4134, 2855...
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We investigated whether women (n = 223) higher in the Dark Triad traits (narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) are subjected to greater cost-inflicting mate retention behaviors by their long-term romantic partners, and we considered women's desire for marriage as a moderator. We found that women higher in narcissism reported lower levels of ve...
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The present study aimed to investigate a mediation model explaining the adults’ well-being. The prediction power of authenticity, motivational persistence, volitional processes of well-being, and the satisfaction of autonomy, relatedness, and competence as mediators in those relationships were examined. To date, most studies have investigated the r...
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The motivation to mate is a universal motive for all sexually dimorphic species, of which humans belong, that facilitates reproductive success. Jealousy is a universal emotion that is adaptive in the context of mate retention. We tested the relationship between the Dark Triad traits and jealousy as well as the moderating effect of mate value (study...
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This study aimed to investigate the relationship between personality dispositions and actual and observed behavior expressed through several smartphone apps categories (relying on a built-in function of the smartphone, the app usage from the battery information menu), as well as to investigate the association between personality traits and the numb...
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We investigated the reasons for pornography consumption using a bottom-up approach (i.e., open-ended questionnaire) and proposed that those reasons would reflect a short-term mating orientation of individuals that watch pornography and a strategy that should help them to attract or maintain potential mates easier (i.e., a fitness increasing strateg...
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Introduction Resilience is described as a process where an individual mobilizes his personal and external resources to overcome stressors and trauma. As a consequence, researchers tried to identify the factors that contribute to resilience with the aim of developing valid psychological interventions that target resilience. Many authors have stated...
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Firefighting is considered a dangerous profession that imposes unique safety hazards. In this research, we investigated the relationship between the Dark Triad traits of firefighters (N = 1434, Mage = 39.03, SD = 6.9) and their risk-taking at work, considering the mediation role of altruism, honesty, and courage. We showed that firefighters high on...
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The study aimed to identify the psychological changes that result from the amputation of a limb and the ways in which patients coordinate their daily lives. The study uses an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) aimed at understanding individual experiences in seven patients who have suffered limb amputation. The method used consisted of...
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Background The Kingston Caregiver Stress Scale (KCSS) was designed to measure stress in caregivers of people with dementia, but empirical studies have used this instrument to measure stress in caregivers of children and adults with disabilities, without investigating its psychometric properties. Aims This study analysed the factor structure, relia...
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Even if the majority of humans desire to mate, some people decide to stay single. In this paper, we investigated (N = 270) the link between the Dark Triad traits and the reasons to remain single by choice, testing the moderating effect of sociosexuality. We showed that individuals high on Machiavellianism and psychopathy scored high on two dimensio...
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Mating preferences were among the most studied human mating features, as they are the glue that helps form a romantic relationship. We investigated the influence of a broad series of environmental characteristics (e.g., resource scarcity, corruption, physical safety and integrity, insufficient jobs, inadequate medical and educational infrastructure...
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Mating success is an important issue in modern societies. One in two adults reports poor mating performance. One solution to this problem is to know as much as possible about human mating preferences. In this research, we investigated if women (N = 223) high on the Dark Triad Traits are attracted to males with high levels of narcissism and tested t...
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There is considerable evidence suggesting the Dark Triad traits (i.e., psychopathy, narcissism, & Machiavellianism) are associated with greater promiscuity, but the mechanisms liking them are poorly understood. In this study (N = 379) we replicated prior associations between the Dark Triad traits and sociosexuality and considered the potential mech...
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Addressing the stress of medical staff has become a priority in the health sector due to the high prevalence of professional exhaustion among healthcare employees and due to the negative outcomes associated with burnout of medical personnel. By measuring workplace stressors, the management of medical organizations can identify the most important so...
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Over ancestral time, men had more paternity uncertainty than women. If the father and his offspring have similar facial features, the former is more confident of his paternity and he, therefore, tends to invest more resources in the child. In 158 dyads of adolescents (i.e., teenagers) and their fathers, we tested-using actor-partner interdependence...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of both work-related and emic contextualization of personality measurement in the prediction of work-related outcomes. Design/methodology/approach In total, 224 employees completed work-contextualized and non-contextualized Big Five model measures, as well as contextualized emic person...
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This research tested the relationship between career adaptability and academic performance and the incremental validity of career adaptability in predicting academic performance, as well as the mediation role of career adaptability in the relationship between personality and academic performance. 437 undergraduate students completed measures of the...
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Purpose Boredom at work is associated with negative consequences, therefore it is important to investigate whether employees engage in job crafting behaviors that reduce boredom and what are the individual differences associated with these behaviors. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire study was desi...
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This research investigated Facebook avoidance motives from a socioanalytic perspective, by arguing that individuals' motives behind Facebook avoidance are the same as the reasons for using Facebook, namely the need to belong and the need for self-presentation. The difference is that these needs are pursued differently by Facebook non-users. We argu...
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This research tested the utility of an emic-etic approach to personality assessment in predicting three behavioral domains: Social adaptation, Risky social behaviors and Status striving and social affirmation. In this regard, two studies were conducted. The aim of the first study was to develop a personality measure of a psycho-lexically based six-...
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We identified 1,746 personality-relevant trait-adjectives in a Romanian dictionary, of which 412 were classified as descriptors of dispositions by 10 judges. Self-ratings were collected from 515 participants on those 412 adjectives, and the ratings were factored using PCA. Solutions with different numbers of factors were analysed. The two- and thre...
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This research tested the association between the HEXACO personality model and risky driving behavior as well as the predictive power of the HEXACO model in explaining risky driving behavior compared with the Big Five model. In Sample 1, 227 undergraduate students completed measures of the HEXACO personality model, the Big Five model, and driving ag...
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This research tested the association between the Dark Triad and driving aggression as well as the incremental validity of the Dark Triad in predicting aggressive driving and the mediation role of the Dark Triad in the relationship between Big Five personality factors and aggressive driving. 274 undergraduate students in Study 1 and 95 amateur drive...
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This study aims to highlight how academic specialization influences the variables: self-perception of stress, coping mechanisms in students at the Faculty of Psychology and students from the Faculty of Chemistry. This study involved 63 subjects, final year undergraduate students at two universities, with different profiles. Hypothesis 1 was support...
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The research aims to detect possible differences in self-perception of recent and general positive emotions to high school student, based on their profile; to detect possible differences in self-perception of recent and general negative emotions to high school students; to detect possible differences in self-perception of motivation to high school...
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The research investigated the psychometric properties and the discriminant validity of the English version of the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Aggressive Driving Behavior (AVIS). Study 1 assessed the psychometric properties of the instrument. Internal consistency ranged from 0.77 to 0.92. Exploratory factor analysis did not support the origi...
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This study tested a theoretical model of the relationship between the Big Five Personality Factors, aggressive driving and ‘risky driving outcomes’ (accidents, traffic tickets, and license suspension). It also tested the mediation effect of aggressive driving in the relationship between the five factor personality model and risky driving outcomes....
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This study had the objective of verifying the psychometric properties of a vocational counseling questionnaire in the psychology profession. The questionnaires were completed by 109 participants. The results showed a good internal consistency of the 9 dimensions of the test, good content validity and good convergent validity. In conclusion, the voc...
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The objective of this study was to develop situational and simulation tools for the selection of staff working in call centres. A pilot study was conducted involving 60 people, employees in multinational company in Bucharest. Research results have shown that both the situational test as well as the simulation one show predictive value. In conclusio...
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In this research 144 participants took part, employees of Romanian organizations. They completed the HEXACO personality inventory as well as measures for job satisfaction, frustration at work, turnover, and absenteeism as well as questionnaires to assess self-perceived health and satisfaction with life, in order to check the concurrent validity of...
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The study highlights possible differences between police officers who work in the office and those who work in the field, in terms of aggressive behavior perception.
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This study involves two Romanian service providing companies. Method Participants were 60 employee (30 participants from each organization in part), 38 women and 22 men (M = 40.86, SD = 11.58), aged between 22-65 years. The objective: to show that there are differences in the self-perception of stressors at the workplace as well as differences reg...
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This research aims to observe the impact of visual perception with one eye versus two eyes on motor coordination. Method: Participants: 66 students of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania, 25 males and 41 females. Instruments: B19 Labyrinth (Vienna Tests System, 2012). Results: there is a statisticall...
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This study investigated the utility of the Big Five personality factors in predicting aggressive driving behavior on 100 young Romanian participants. They completed the Aggressive driving behavior (AVIS) test of the psychological Vienna Test System as well as the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). Previous research findings are also suppor...
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This study investigated the simple reaction time and the reaction time during a conflict of introverted and extroverted persons, looking to prove that there are significant differences in terms of reaction time between these two categories of people. 60 people of which 30 extroverted and 30 introverted completed the International Personality Item P...

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