Janek Musek

Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences

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Andreja Avsec

University of Ljubljana

Marko Polič

University of Ljubljana

Aljoscha C. Neubauer

University of Graz

Mikhail V. Allakhverdov

St Petersburg University

Peter Haľama

University of Trnava

Barbara Novak

Agilent Technologies (United States)

Ike E. Onyishi

University of Nigeria

Nicholas Owsley

University of Chicago

David Gallardo‐Pujol

Universitat de Barcelona

Igor Kononenko

National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"

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Institut za filozofiju

University of Ljubljana

Schneeberger (Switzerland)

Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology

Klinika za psihijatriju Vrapče

University of California, Riverside

Radboud University Nijmegen

Slovak Academy of Sciences

Google (United States)

Tilburg University

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Can the big five factors of personality predict lymphocyte counts?

PubMed (2012)

Ana Ožura Alojz Ihan Janek Musek

Psychological stress is known to affect the immune system. The Limbic Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (LHPA) axis has been identified as the principal path of the bidirectional communication between the immune system and the central nervous system with significant psychological activators. Personality traits acted as moderators of the relationship between life conflicts and psychological distress. This study focuses on the relationship between the Big Five factors of personality and immune regulation as indicated by Lymphocyte counts.Our study included 32 professional soldiers from the Slovenian Army that completed the Big Five questionnaire (Goldberg IPIP-300). We also assessed their white blood cell counts with a detailed lymphocyte analysis using flow cytometry. The correlations between personality variables and immune system parameters were calculated. Furthermore, regression analyses were performed using personality variables as predictors and immune parameters as criteria.The results demonstrated that the model using the Big Five factors as predictors of Lymphocyte counts is significant in predicting the variance in NK and B cell counts. Agreeableness showed the strongest predictive function.The results offer support for the theoretical models that stressed the essential links between personality and immune regulation. Further studies with larger samples examining the Big five factors and immune system parameters are needed.

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Review of: "Sociosexuality Expanded: The Role of Light and Dark Personality Traits"

Janek Musek

10.32388/m3p0ix

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Dimensional Structure of Personality and Beyond

Elsevier eBooks (2017)

Janek Musek

10.1016/b978-0-12-811209-0.00008-x

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The General Factor of Personality

Janek Musek

Factor (programming language)

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Duhovna inteligentnost : struktura in povezave

Anthropos (2008)

Janek Musek

Versko, duhovno in transcendentno izkustvo je znacilno za cloveka od samih zacetkov. To izkustvo so proucevali stevilni avtorji skozi obdobje moderne psiholoske in kognitivne znanosti, vendar pa je sele od nedavnega predmet empiricnega raziskovanja. Prav v zadnjem casu se je v psihologiji sele zacel uveljavljati nov koncept duhovnosti, koncept duhovne inteligentnosti (DI). Prispevek v prvem, teoreticnem delu obravnava glavna podrocja in usmeritve v raziskovanju duhovnih in z njimi povezanih pojavov v psihologiji, kognitivni psihologiji in nevroznanosti. V drugem delu pa so navedeni izsledki nasih lastnih empiricnih raziskovanj, ki vkljucujejo analize strukture DI in analize odnosov med DI, vernostjo, vrednotami, dimenzijami osebnosti in dimenzijami psihicnega blagostanja.

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Vrijednosne orijentacije u pripadnika različitih religija

Psihologijske teme (2017)

Janek Musek

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Personal Well-Being

Springer eBooks (2023)

Janek Musek Marko Polič

10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_2148

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The General Factor of Personality

Psihologijske teme (2017)

Janek Musek

According to the empirical and theoretical research in past ten years, the General Factor of Personality (GFP) was interpreted as the highest-order (most general) personality dimension, which occupies the apex of the structural hierarchy of personality traits. Thus, the GFP is the central concept in the new structural paradigm of personality (the Pyramidal Model of Personality). In the majority of the studies, the GFP was conceptualized as a general factor with substantial psychological (cognitive and behavioural) content reflecting the general social and personal adjustment or effectiveness. The alternative explanations of the GFP emphasize the role of the semantic factors, response styles and other biases. This study reviews the main results of the GFP research including the nature, the biological bases, the strength and cultural universality of GFP, its relations to intelligence and other prominent psychological variables, and its predictive power and practical importance.

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The Overall Strength of the GFP

Elsevier eBooks (2017)

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10.1016/b978-0-12-811209-0.00007-8

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Personality Dynamics

Janek Musek

The dynamics of personality deals with the motivational aspect of personality functioning. It embraces the basic motivational terms of personality including homeostasis, arousal, approach, and avoidance. Then, it focuses on biological dynamic models of instinct, drive, incentive, and theoretical conceptions in ethology and biosociology. The next subchapters or sections include the theories of dynamic traits (ergs, sentiments, and motivation strength components) and the dimensional models of personality dynamics (dynamic dimensions). The major conceptions of so-called push motivation, goals, values, and domains of motivation are discussed in the following subchapter. Finally, the chapter deals with the motivational aspects of situational factors.

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10.1007/978-3-031-55308-0_4

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