Showing papers on "Conscientiousness published in 1979"
TL;DR: Aspects of clinical performance pertaining to information, concepts, skills, ingenuity, and conscientiousness were found to correlate with academic achievement as measured by grades and cognitive tests; however, such a correlation was not found for other aspects pertaining to attitude, peer relations, maturity, patient rapport, and integrity.
Abstract: Many efforts have been made to define the complex factors related to successful clinical performance and to determine relationships among them. This study was an attempt to increase the understanding of cognitive and noncognitive attributes of clinical performance. Intercorrelations among overall clinical performance ratings, quarterly comprehensive examination scores, total scores on the Part II examination of the National Board of Medical Examiners, and overall grade-point average were computed for a graduating class of medical students. Aspects of clinical performance pertaining to information, concepts, skills, ingenuity, and conscientiousness were found to correlate with academic achievement as measured by grades and cognitive tests; however, such a correlation was not found for other aspects pertaining to attitude, peer relations, maturity, patient rapport, and integrity.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an Accountant Personality Battery consisting of an accountant personality inventory and three personality performance tests, which was administered to 250 university students and found that use of the battery, in conjuncrion with traditional predictors of grade-point average and academic achievement tests, may increase the predictability of an individual's performance in accounting courses.
Abstract: Sfmz.mary.-This paper reports development of an Accountant Personality Battery consisting of an Accountant Personality Inventory and three personality performance tests. Administering the test .battery to 250 university students indicated that use of the battery, in conjuncrion with traditional predictors of grade-point average and academic achievement tests, may increase the predictability of an individual's performance in accounting courses. Personality tests of accounting majors showed persistence, a strong desire for system, a liking for security and routine, conventional and conscientious attitudes, and flexibility when conditions required it. Math ACT scores were high. Successful accounting students showed high motivation, a strong desire to succeed, superior examtaking ability, conscientiousness, and persistence. They remained cool in stressful situations. Although uninterested in abstract creativity, they showed interest in searching for new methods of problem solving. A perplexing problem in vocational counseling and personnel selection is identification of predictive factors which correlate highly with the criteria of job prosperity. Job prosperity implies a chosen life work consonant with values, interests, and needs as well as aptitudes. Traditional predictors such as grade-point average, interviews and standardized tests, although correlating significantly with vocational success, leave major portions of predictor-criterion variance unexplained (Sawyer, 1966). Human behavior is complex, and current predictors isolate only a few of the variables. Cognizance should be taken of the multitude of personality characteristics relating to prosperity in a vocational field. Investigations to assess personality characteristics of the prosperous accountant have been reported in the literature using personality inventories, work-value inventories, and projective techniques. Studies cited in the 16 Personality Factor Handbook characterize accountants as intelligent, conscientious, toughminded, shrewd, dependent, serious, submissive, and self-sufficient (Cattell, Eber, & Tatsuoka, 1970). Kinnane and Suziedelis (1962), using a Work Value Inventory, reported accountants placed high positive value on securityeconomic-material, a high negative value on social-artistic, and a low negative value on independence-variety. Kabach ( 1946), using the Group Rorschach Technique, characterized accountants as mature, cautious, intelligent and introversive. The present paper focuses on early identification of persons who will prosper in accounting. To add personality characteristics to traditional predictors of success, an Accountant Personality Battery was developed by the authors.
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