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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"the big five"”.
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The Big Five Personality Traits and Choking Susceptibility
Choking susceptibility is the likelihood or potential of an individual choking under pressure (Mesagno et al., 2012). Choking susceptibility may be influenced by personality traits. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between the Big Five personality traits on choking …
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Personality as a Gestalt: A Cluster Analytic Approach to the Big Five
There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the study of personality types. This personality type research has focused on the uncovering of statistical types, rather than relying on rationally developed types. Using the method of cluster analysis, I investigated whether such statistical types …
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Proactive Personality and the Big Five as Predictors of Motivation to Learn
… those who will not. Predicting this variable, then, becomes an important step in managing workforce development and helping employees help themselves. Therefore, the efficacy of relevant personality characteristics as predictors of motivation to learn was investigated. Proactive personality and …
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Situational Contingencies of Anxiety: What Anxieties are Associated with Each of the Big Five?
In an if...then pattern, the "if" represents a feature of the situation and the "then" represents a behavior that occurs in that situation. The present study investigated if...then patterns of anxiety that are associated with each of the Big Five personality traits. To form hypotheses, I turned to …
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The Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Drive/Motivational Manifestations of the Big Five Personality Traits
The purpose of this thesis is to determine through which basic psychological mode(s) personality traits manifest themselves (affect, behavior, cognition, and/or drive; ABCD) and to describe differences in ABCD manifestation between Big Five traits. The Big Five traits are broad latent constructs, …
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Development of an Integrated Adaptive and Maladaptive Personality Model for Measuring the Big Five
The structure of the Big Five model of personality was examined when its dimensions were measured independently at both poles, based on new items designed to reduce the social desirability bias often found between the polarities. Inductive, deductive and criterion-centric methods were employed and …
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Incremental validity of character measures over the big five inventory in predicting academic achievement
… Yet, it remains unclear to what extent these proposed measures provide additional theoretical or empirical utility over established measures of general personality, such as the Big Five. Here, we examine whether character measures display incremental validity over and above the Big Five …
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Determination of the rate of sulfide production by sulfate-reducing bacteria at the Big Five wetland
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The relationship between locus of control and the big five personality dimensions among black managers in Namibia
This study investigated the relation of locus of control to the “big five” personality dimensions (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) for 36 black managers in the private and semi-state organizations in Namibia. Spector’s (1988) work locus of …
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The Moderating Effects of the "Big Five" Personality Traits on the Relationship Between Budgetary Participation and Motivation
… dissertation presents an experiment exploring the moderating effects of individual differences in personality on the motivational effects of increased participation in setting budget goals. This experiment hypothesizes that individual differences in personality will correlate with changes in …
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Style over Substance? A Content Analysis of the Gendered Style of Political Pundits on the "Big Five"
… politics, both in elected positions and in the media as political pundits (Melber, 2011). Is it the masculine style that is appealing to society? Do popular political pundits (male and female) emulate this masculine style in order to appeal to and persuade their audience? Through a content …
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Relationships among nursing burnout, the big five personality factors, and overall self-concept: the impact of assessing common method variance
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the extent to which common method variance (CMV) impacted many of the relationships between personality traits and the construct of burnout among registered nurses. It was hypothesized that once CMV was calculated and controlled for, relationships …
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Structural Equation Models Examining the Relationships Between the Big Five Personality Factors and the Music Model of Academic Motivation Components
Scholars have long been interested in the complex relationships between personality and motivation. However, much of their understanding has been limited to The Big Five personality factors (namely, Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), and a proliferation of …
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Towards a culture-free model of the Big Five - a cross-cultural investigation of the Orpheus in four different language families
This thesis concerns the development of a practical and theoretical framework for adapting of questionnaires building on van de Vijver and Leung's (1997) Theory of Equivalence and Bias. In contrast to extant research which has largely concentrated on the adaptation of ability measures the present …
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE TEIQUE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE BIG FIVE FACTORS, RELATIONSHIP QUALITY, AND GENERAL MENTAL HEALTH IN AN AMERICAN COLLEGE SAMPLE
… positive life outcomes. This study examined the discriminant validity of trait EI, (as measured by the TEIQue,) relative to the Big Five personality factors via an exploratory joint factor analysis. Additionally, this study assessed the criterion and incremental validity of the TEIQue with …
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Investigating perfectionism using a mixed method approach: personal experiences, evaluations, and the relationship of the FMPS, APS-R and PSPS to the big five personality dimensions
… and evaluations of perfectionism, and the relationship between perfectionism, personality, laterality, and gender were investigated using a mixed method approach. Study 1 explored the relationship between two measurements of multidimensional perfectionism, the FMPS and the APS-R, and a …
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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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Personal privacy: A study to determine views on privacy as it relates to technology acceptance
… descriptive correlation study sought to learn the relationships, if any, between a person’s concern for privacy and their acceptance of technology, in conjunction with the control factors of the Big Five personality factors. The study employed a modified Concern for Information Privacy (CFIP) …
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