Personality and time on task: The role of conscientiousness in attention...

Educational Research Quarterly;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The relationship between conscientiousness, attention, and information...significantly interact with conscientiousness for information acquisition...suggest disparate facets of conscientiousness are related to attention...

Are conscientious workers adaptable?

Australian Journal of Management;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Despite widespread acceptance that conscientiousness is a good predictor of performance...relationship between adaptability and conscientiousness is clarified in this study by examining...predictor domains and by examining conscientiousness at a facet level. Results from three...

THE STRUCTURE OF CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION BASED ON...

Personnel Psychology;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......structure of the trait domain of Conscientiousness using scales drawn from 7 major personality...Thirty-six scales conceptually related to Conscientiousness were administered to a large community...constructs located equally between Conscientiousness and the remaining Big Five dimensions...

PERSONALITY AND STUDENTS' ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF...

Social Behavior and Personality;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......of agreeableness and conscientiousness and their interactive...results indicated that conscientiousness (r = .413), agreeableness...of agreeableness and conscientiousness (r =. 364) were all significantly...

Conscientious people less likely to develop Alzheimer's

The Hindustan Times;  October 2, 2007 ;     489 words ......examinations and cognitive testing. Conscientiousness was measured with a 12-item inventory...with higher scores indicating more conscientiousness. The researchers conducted follow-...The participants had an average conscientiousness score of 34 out of 48. Through a...

Longevity, Big Five personality factors, and health behaviors: presidents...

The Journal of Psychology;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......CORRELATION BETWEEN LONGEVITY and conscientiousness measured during childhood became...also showed that the size of the conscientiousness-longevity relationship was relatively...Friedman et al. (1995) found that conscientiousness was related to smoking and drinking...

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS A BETTER PREDICTOR OF COLLEGE SUCCESS THAN SAT'S

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 4, 2006 ;     481 words ......is being seriously undervalued - conscientiousness. In their paper, "Acquaintance reports...academic achievement: A case for conscientiousness," Seth Wagerman, a doctoral candidate...SAT." "Not only did the trait of conscientiousness predict college grades nearly as...

Personality profiles point to productivity.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  July 8, 2003 ;     173 words ......Review - ABIX via COMTEX) A study on conscientiousness in Australia shows that personality...is called The relationship between conscientiousness and citizenship performance . Employers...found that the personality trait of conscientiousness is a reliable predictor of good corporate...

DON'T FAKE YOUR SMILE: HOSPITALITY WORKERS' PERSONALITIES INFLUENCE RATES...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 14, 2008 ;     626 words ......predictor of employee burnout, while conscientiousness is key to job engagement. So concludes...characteristics of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness-to-experience...strongly associated with burnout. Conscientiousness (dependability and volition) emerged...

The incremental validity of interview scores over and above cognitive...

Personnel Psychology;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......of cognitive ability, measures of Conscientiousness, and interview scores are positively...and beyond cognitive ability and Conscientiousness? This question was addressed in this...relationships among cognitive ability, Conscientiousness, and interviews, (b) combining these...

The joint effects of conscientiousness and self-leadership training on...

Personnel Psychology;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......investigation examined the effects of conscientiousness and self-leadership training on employee self-direction. Conscientiousness correlated significantly with...on self-direction. However, conscientiousness was found to moderate the...

Not just the usual cast of characteristics: Using personality to predict...

Journal of College Student Development;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......characteristics (achievement, conscientiousness, and resiliency), high...predicting college GPA, conscientiousness added significant incremental...high school GPA and SAT. Conscientiousness also significantly predicted...

West Midlands Success Story 2001: We're doing the business

Evening Mail;  December 26, 2001 ;     241 words ......complete quality service, expertise in a wide range of occupational areas and nationally recognised qualifications. Solihull College...training and development programmes in an extensive range of occupational areas, from administration to management, from health & social...

West Midlands Success Story 2001: We're doing the business.(News)

Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  December 26, 2001 ;     242 words ......complete quality service, expertise in a wide range of occupational areas and nationally recognised qualifications. Solihull College...training and development programmes in an extensive range of occupational areas, from administration to management, from health &...

Validity Study: Relationships Between Personality Measures and Job...

Applied H.R.M. Research;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......highly correlated dimension being conscientiousness. Based upon stepwise multiple regression...composite was designed to include: conscientiousness, surgency (low), emotional stability...this equation, only the dimension of conscientiousness was retained, whereas the remaining...