Personality traits

Same Traits Different Outcomes in Leadership Leadership is a long researched, studied theme in Organisational Psychology. However, looking at the recent incidents that took various organisations to a huge failure, it is seen that leadership does not only have a bright side. These failures mostly show that destructive leadership is an important reason for them to happen (Thoroughgood, Padilla, Hunter & Tate, 2012). As Goldman (2009) indicates, organisations have started to assess potential…

goals. I will therefore in this portfolio evaluate and analyse my intrapersonal strengths and weaknesses that will aid me in my pursuit of workplace success in my chosen career. I will present and reflect over my results from the International Personality Item Pool (NEO IPIP) and apply what I have discovered against my SMART…

individual differences (Paulhus, Delroy. “Trait Psychology.” CIRS building at the University of British Columbia. Vancouver. 25 January 2016. Lecture.). In the case of obedience to authority, behavior is, without exception, dependent on several intervening factors (Paulhus, Delroy. “Obedience.” CIRS building at the University of British Columbia. Vancouver. 24 February 2016. Lecture.) In the interest of such topic, my scope of my research lies on individual personality in relation to overt…

birth order affect an individual’s personality and achievements is a question many psychologists have debated for years. These studies are ongoing and often inconclusive: the effect of birth order on personality is sporadic at best. Nevertheless, the public and some psychologists often believe that birth order does indeed affect personality. On the other hand, there are many psychologists who do not believe that birth order has any effect on an individual’s personality. These psychologists…

birth order on the outcome of three of Big Five Inventory traits. Specifically, the researcher wanted to examine how birth order effects conscientiousness, openness, and extraversion. The researchers expected that individuals born first within their families would show higher levels of conscientiousness, youngest children would score higher on levels of openness, and that last-born individual would score the highest on the extraversion trait. Taken together, the researcher analyses of the data…

On one hand is the theory that said order creates behaviors in people that lead to them choosing occupation that possess a need for those traits. However, on the other hand, a belief that the job choice comes from the way a family is structured through the investment of the parents on the child throughout their life (Grinberg 463-464). Sulloway agrees that birth order equips the eldest and…

Licht, Hull, and Ballantine define personality as the unique, core set of characteristics that influence the way one thinks, acts, and feels, and that are relatively consistent and enduring throughout the life span. Costa and McCrae developed the five-factor model of personality. The model contains what many psychologists believe to be the fundamental dimensions of personality. The basic traits included are neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness,…

Bill Schaeffer As discussed in class, collecting data from multiple entry points is necessary to get an accurate depiction of one’s personality. As I found from the results of the two personality assessments, this statement holds true. The results of the Big Five test provide feedback that I scored above average with Conscientiousness (29) and Neuroticism (20), obtained average scores in Extraversion (18) and Agreeableness (14), and below average with Openness to New Experience (9). When…

gender differences the role of personality factors have been neglected. Research has indicated that high levels of neuroticism has been found to be linked to increased risks of depression. In contrast, higher levels of and extraversion have been found to be associated with reduced risk of depression and other mental disorders. Previous studies have found gender differences is personality traits, however, researchers have not specifically examined the Big Five Personality factors to gender…

The big five personality dimensions can be divided into five factors: Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientious-ness, openness, and neuroticism (Costa and McCrae, 1992; McCrae and John, 1992; John and Srivastava, 1999). 2.1. Extraversion Extraversion is indicated by positive feelings (emotions) and tendency to seek partnership of others. It reperesents the tendency to be sociable, assertive, active, upbeat, cheerful, optimistic, and talkactive. Such individuals like people, prefer groups,…