How are personality and workplace well-being related longitudinally? Investigating their between-person and within-person relationships in three representative samples

How are changes in personality traits and workplace well-being related? The current study investigated the dynamic relationships between personality traits and workplace well-being at both the between-person and the within-person levels. I drew data from three longitudinal panel studies: the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Study (HILDA, N = 20,445), the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences (LISS, N = 11,104), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS, N = 14,497). Using the continuous-time latent curve model with structured residuals (CT-LCM-SR), I generally found evidence for correlated change between personality traits and workplace well-being at the between-person level. After controlling for the between-person variance, I found largely null findings on the dynamic relationships between changes in personality traits and workplace well-being at the within-person level, with a few exceptions. These exceptions indicated bidirectional relationships between certain traits and certain workplace well-being outcomes, yet they were generally limited to one sample and not generalizable to others. Also, when there were significant within-person relationships (albeit few), their directions were largely consistent with their between-person relationships, and the size of the within-person relationships were substantially smaller as compared to that of their between-person counterparts. Findings from this study highlight the importance of separating between-person and within-person effects when investigating the longitudinal relationships between personality traits and workplace well-being.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2024

Author dc:creator

• Chen, Lilang

Contributors dc:contributor

• Zhang, Bo
• Alexander, Leo
• Briley, Ava
• Liu, Yihao
• Newman, Daniel

• Personality Development
• Workplace Well-being
• Longitudinal Analyses
• Continuous-time Modeling

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2024 Lilang Chen

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/125797

OAI record oai:identifier

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