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In recent years, the possibility that the speech and actions of people in television's dramatic world might influence viewers' understanding of the personalities of others and themselves has received little attention. The first step to exploring that possibility is to chart the personality types which populate television, and to understand the reasons for their existence. This study examines television industry's view of the various personality dimen sions the audience will attribute to characters. The method is to apply an established personality inventory to descriptions creators of prime-time dramas share regarding criminals, law enforcement agents, blue-collar workers, and other citizens. The one-sided view of human nature that is disclosed raises important questions about the consequences of television's portrayals for people using them for social comparison or as indicators of the human condition.

Intro -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Appendixes -- Preface -- Introduction Ofer Feldman and Linda O. Valenty -- Part I Assessment of Personality and Leadership: Content Analytic Techniques -- Chapter 1 Studying Canadian Leaders at a Distance Peter Suedfeld, Lucian Gideon Conway III, and David Eichhorn -- Chapter 2 Political Leadership and the Democratic Peace: The Operational Code of Prime Minister Tony Blair Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker -- Chapter 3 The 1996 Russian Presidential Candidates: A Content Analysis of Motivational Configuration and Conceptual/ Integrative Complexity Linda O. Valenty and Eric Shiraev -- Chapter 4 The Personality and Leadership Style of President Khatami: Implications for the Future of Iranian Political Reform Tanyel Taysi and Thomas Preston -- Part II Profiling the Political Personality: Psychodiagnostic and Psychobiographical Approaches -- Chapter 5 Linking Leadership Style to Policy: How Prime Ministers Influence the Decision- Making Process Juliet Kaarbo -- Chapter 6 Kings, Queens, and Sultans: Empirical Studies of Political Leadership in European Hereditary Monarchies Dean Keith Simonton -- Chapter 7 Mao ZedongÌs Narcissistic Personality Disorder and ChinaÌs Road to Disaster Michael M. Sheng -- Chapter 8 Profiling Russian Leaders from a Psychohistorical and a Psychobiographical Perspective Juhani Ihanus -- Chapter 9 Benjamin Netanyahu: A Psychological Profile Using Behavior Analysis Shaul Kimhi -- Part III The Cultural Context: Applications from East to West -- Chapter 10 Building the War Economy and Rebuilding Postwar Japan: A Profile of Pragmatic Nationalist Nobusuke Kishi Shigeko N. Fukai -- Chapter 11 When and Why Do Hard- Liners Become Soft? An Examination of Israeli Prime Ministers Shamir, Rabin, Peres, and Netanyahu Yael S. Aronoff.

This article examines personality subjective well-being and describes its psychological structure, general components and characteristics. An overview of foreign theories and studies on subjective well-being is presented. Correlations amongrelated concepts such as happiness, life satisfaction and subjective well-being are also described. Subjective well-being is seen as a multivariate construction of a stable nature in mobile equilibrium. It is argued that a type of professional activity can have great importance and a positive impact on an individual's social life, health, identity shaping and psychological wellness. This article's findings are substantiated by the survey administered to 2229 respondents divided into groups according to their area of business: students, psychologists, doctors, teachers, engineering and technical staff, representatives of service industries, workers, military men, and prisoners. The descriptors identified two types of natures: positive, directed to a person's inner world (happy, lucky, optimistic) and to the outer world (trustworthy, competent, successful), and negative (pessimistic, unhappy, envious). This division of nature type was categorized according to the participants' subjective well-being index. Empirical evidence has shown that occupational specificity influences a person's subjective well-being. A substantial difference was found in subjective well-being index of the respondents. A higher index is typical of students and military men. Educators and industrial intelligentsia also demonstrate an increased level of subjective well-being, whereas prisoners tend to have a low level of subjective well-being. The same low index is characteristic of servicing trade representatives and psychologists. © Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2015.

PART 1: THE JUMP START: DEFINING YOURSELF AND OTHERS. -- Don't read the whole book ... -- The color Q personality style self-assessment -- A quick history of personality typing -- A tour of Prism Company: an overview of the four color groups -- PART 2: GREENS: "LET'S HUMANIZE IT". -- Greens overall -- Green/gold extroverts -- Green/gold introverts -- Green/red extroverts -- Green/red introverts -- PART 3: REDS: "LET'S DO IT NOW". -- Reds overall -- Red/blue extroverts -- Red/blue introverts -- Red/green extroverts -- Red/green introverts -- PART 4: BLUES- "LET'S CHANGE IT". -- Blues overall -- Blue/gold extroverts -- Blue/gold introverts -- Blue/red extroverts -- Blue/red introverts -- PART 5: GOLDS- "LET'S DO IT RIGHT". -- Golds overall -- Gold/blue extroverts -- Gold/blue introverts -- Gold/green extroverts -- Gold/green introverts -- PART 6: GETTING THE JOB. -- Before I do something stupid ... adjusting to other styles -- Would I make a good entrepreneur? -- Money and compensation -- PART 7: CREATING A CUSTOMIZED ROADMAP FOR YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE. -- A roadmap for putting it all together -- Bibliography and resources

The qualitative study of presidential personality / Fred I. Greenstein -- Political leadership: some methodological considerations / Betty Glad -- Motivation and political leadership / David Winter -- U.S. presidents as conflict managers: the operational codes of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton / Mark Schafer, Michael D. Young, and Stephen G. Walker -- Motive imagery and integrative complexity: Bill Clinton, George Mitchell, and the Northern Ireland peace talks / Linda O. Valenty and Mary E. Carroll -- The political personality of U.S. president George W. Bush / Aubrey Immelman -- Assessments of America's chief executives: insights from biographers and objective personality measures / Steven J. Rubenzer, Thomas R. Faschingbauer, and Deniz S. Ones -- Studying images and their impact on behavior: the case of the Carter Administration / Jerel Rosati -- John F. Kennedy as dramatic leader / Robert E. Gilbert -- Cloak and swagger: personality and leadership in the vice presidency of Spiro T. Agnew / Scott W. Webster -- Governing a divided America in the new millennium: heroic versus reflective leadership / Stanley A. Renshon.

This article examines the foundations of democratic citizenship along three dimensions: generalised trust in other people; norms of citizenship; and participation in organisations. Contrary to previous research, which mainly focuses on situational factors, this article scrutinises how individual predispositions, in terms of personality traits, influence the three dimensions of democratic citizenship. In accordance with recent research, personality is conceptualised according to the Big Five personality model encompassing the five traits Openness (to experience), Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. Based on a nationally representative Danish survey, which includes a 60-item Big Five personality inventory, we show that personality traits to a considerable extent influence all three dimensions of democratic citizenship. Furthermore, for norms of citizenship and organisational involvement, the personality traits have differential impacts contingent on the norm and type of organisational involvement in question. Adapted from the source document.