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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"five-factor model of personality"”.
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Predicting leadership and performance in uniformed organisations using the five factor model of personality
Selection has been primarily focussed on the use of ability and aptitude measures as they have been shown to predict job performance in uniformed organisations. Personality assessment has largely been ignored as a possible contributor to improving predictions of performance. The emergence of the …
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A cross-cultural test of the "five-factor model of personality and transformational leadership"
… popularity during the past ten years because of its consistent effect on individual and organizational performance. The increasing globalization of business and the consequent emergence of a diversified workforce have prompted the importance of understanding the cultural context of …
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The Development of a Computer Adaptive Test Of the Five Factor Model of Personality: Applications and Extensions
Although not universally accepted, much of the field has converged upon the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality as constituting a comprehensive taxonomy of normal personality functioning. A weakness common to all personality inventories is excessive length, which can result in examinee fatigue, …
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Further Investigation of the Factor Structure of the Five Factor Model of Personality: A Search for Moderator Variables
Although somewhat controversial, the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality has remained prominent in normal personality research. Previous studies involving the FFM of personality have failed to examine individual differences that could moderate the number of factors in the FFM. This study …
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Job Satisfaction as a Function of the Five Factor Model of Personality in the Community Mental Health Center Environment of Northern Indiana
<p>Problem</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the Big Five personality type indicators and job satisfaction in the community mental health setting. The focus of this study was to gain a better understanding of whether a not-for-profit can benefit from the use …
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Personality and leader emergence in groups
… been around for a long time. Starting out as one of the original theories of leadership, research in the area of trait- based perspectives began to slow and give way to other, different domains of predicting leadership in the 1950s. Only recently has there been a revived interest in the trait …
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The Five-Factor Model As Predictor Of Performance On Decision-Making Tasks
<p>Prior research on personality and decision-making has failed to use adequate measurement of both constructs. The current research extended the previous literature by incorporating multiple measures of decision-making as well as the NEO-PI-3, a psychometrically sound measure of the five-factor …
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Psychometric Properties of the Icelandic Version of the M5-50 and its Relationship to Age, Education, Gender, Political Affiliation, and Salary.
This goal of this study was to 1) assess the psychometric properties of an Icelandic translation of the M5-50 questionnaire, which is used to measure personality according to the five-factor model of personality, 2) to assess gender difference in personality factors as measured by the M5-50, and 3) …
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A Comparative Content Analysis Of African American And Caucasian Role Portrayals In Broadcast Television Entertainment Programming
<p>This study examines the nature and number of character portrayals in broadcast entertainment programming. More specifically, the portrayals of African American characters are examined and compared to Caucasian portrayals. The goal of this study is to determine what, if any, stereotypes may still …
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Facial Processing and Social Motivation In Psychopathy: An Event-Related Potential Study
… work has urged a shift in the perspective of psychopathy to focus on the interpersonal aspects of the disorder that are often overlooked in the broader literature. Conceptual and empirical overlap with an exemplar interpersonal disorder- autism spectrum disorder- lends support to viewing …
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Dispositional influences on the intent to transfer learning: a test of a structural equation model
… research has evolved to a significant body of works during the last two decades. Many relationships however remain unexplored and unexplained. Among these are dispositional characteristics, which are rarely studied in combination with transfer because of difficulties and inconsistencies in …
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Openness to Experience Rather than Overexcitabilities
In the theory of positive disintegration (TPD), Dabrowski (1967) describes manifestations of inner energy that serve a developmental purpose and might be more frequently found in gifted individuals, called overexcitabilities (OEs). Most studies present OEs outside of the context of the original …
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Extinguishing or Fueling the Fire: Resilience in Clinical and Counseling Psychology Graduate Students
… examined as a tripartite construct consisting of personality, coping, and psychological functioning in a structural equation model. Specifically, five personality traits were included as predictors of coping and psychological functioning, and coping served as a predictor of psychological …
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Stability and change in personality : contributions from long- and short-term approaches
… barriers, today there is a common consent that personality is marked by both stability and change over time as well as across situations. Provided with this basic understanding, the field of personality psychology has moved from debating whether personality changes at all towards answering more …
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Flow and the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of Personality Characteristic
Flow is an area that has had a flourish of research emerge within the past couple of decades originating in the sport psychology literature (Jackson & Eklund, 2006; Hefferon & Ollis, 2006; Kee & Wang, 2008) and in a multitude of other areas of study since such as academics, creativity, motivation, …
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Examining the Link between Personality Traits, Cognitive Performance, and Consecutive Interpreting
… highly complex activity that not only demands proficient linguistic expertise, but also non-linguistic abilities such as non-linguistic cognitive performance (Macnamara, 2012; Riesbeck et al., 1978; Wang, 2004). In addition to this, individual differences in personality may also play a potential …