The big five personality dimensions and job performance: a meta-analysis
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...For example, in studies of job performance (for reviews see Barrick & Mount, 1991; Mount, Barrick, & Stewart, 1998), the Big Five have been found to relate to important outc mes in the workplace....
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...…five factors have been shown to predict external criteria from divergent thinking abilities (McCrae, 1987) to marital adjustment and divorce (Kelly & Conley, 1987), to coronary disease endpoints (Dembroski, MacDougall, Costa, & Grandits, 1989), to job performance criteria (Barrick & Mount, 1991)....
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...In a 1991 meta-analysis, Barrick and Mount concluded that Big Five Conscientiousness related more robustly to job performance than did Big Five Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, or Agreeableness (Barrick & Mount, 1991)....
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...In a 1991 meta-analysis, Barrick and Mount concluded that Big Five Conscientiousness related more robustly to job performance than did Big Five Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, or Agreeableness (Barrick & Mount, 1991). Uncorrected correlations between conscientiousness and job performance ranged from r .09 to r .13, depending on the occupational group. In a meta-analysis of confirmatory studies of personality measures as predictors of job performance, Tett, Jackson, and Rothstein (1991) observed a sample-weighted mean correlation between conscientiousness and job performance of r ....
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...As we expected, grit related to Conscientiousness (r .77, p .001) more than to Neuroticism (r .38, p .001), Agreeableness (r .24, p .001), Extraversion (r .22, p .001), and Openness to Experience (r .14, p .001)....
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...About 10 years later, Cattell (1943, 1946, 1947, 1948) developed a relatively complex taxonomy of individual differences that consisted of 16 primary factors and 8 second-order factors....
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...Bond, Nakazato, & Shiraishi, 1975; Noller, Law, & Comrey, 1987); using ratings obtained from different sources (e.g., Digman & Inouye, 1986; Digman & Takemoto-Chock , 1981; Fiske, 1949; McCrae & Costa, 1987; Norman, 1963; Norman & Goldberg, 1966; Watson, 1989); and with a variety of samples (see Digman, 1990, for a more detailed discussion)....
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...This factor has been most frequently called Emotional Stability, Stability, Emotionality, or Neuroticism (Borgatta, 1964; Conley, 1985; Hakel, 1974; John, 1989; Lorr & Manning, 1978; McCrae & Costa, 1985; Noller et al., 1987; Norman, 1963; Smith, 1967)....
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...During the past decade, an impressive body of literature has accumulated which provides compelling evidence for the robustness of the 5factor model: across different theoretical frameworks (Goldberg, 1981); using different instruments (e.g., Conley, 1985; Costa & McCrae, 1988; Lorr & Youniss, 1973; McCrae, 1989; McCrae & Costa, 1985, 1987, 1989); in different cultures (e.g.....
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...Based on the evidence cited by Digman (1990), the preponderance of evidence supports the definition of conscientious ness as including these volitional aspects (Bernstein, Garbin, & McClellan, 1983; Borgatta, 1964; Conley, 1985; Costa & McCrae, 1988; Digman & Inouye, 1986; Digman & Takemoto-Chock, 1981; Howarth, 1976; Krug & Johns, 1986; Lei & Skinner, 1982; Lorr & Manning, 1978; McCrae & Costa, 1985, 1987, ......
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...Some define it in terms of responsibilit y or dependability (e.g., Hogan, 1986), whereas others view it as also including volitional aspects, such as hardworking, persistent, and achievementoriented (e.g., Conley, 1985; Costa & McCrae, 1988; Digman & Inouye, 1986; Digman & Takemoto-Chock, 1981; Krug & Johns, 1986; McCrae & Costa, 1985, 1987, 1989)....
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...The third dimension has generally been interpreted as Agreeableness or Likability (Borgatta, 1964; Conley, 1985; Goldberg, 1981; Hakel, 1974; Hogan, 1983; John, 1989; McCrae & Costa, 1985; Noller et al., 1987; Norman, 1963; Smith, 1967; Tupes & Christal, 1961)....
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