Personality attributes that predict cadet performance at West Point

Mayer, John D.; Skimmyhorn, Bill

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2016.10.012

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“…While Chen Y 2017 26 showed that family and friends support had lower effect on physical predictions preventing the activity of watching television. Mayer JD 2017 27 suggested that emotional support is an important factor in the promotion of physical activity among people. It was suggested that office employers get support from their coworkers in order to persuade the coworkers to participate in stretching exercise.…”

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Determinants of Stretching Exercise Behavior among Office Employees using Health Promotion Model with Added Constructs

Delshad¹,

Tavafian²,

Kazemnejad³

2019

J Liaquat Uni Med Health Sci

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OBJECTIVE: To determinant the influencing factors on Stretching Exercise (SE) among office employees working in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBUMS) in Iran through Health Promotion Model (HPM) with added constructs. METHODOLOGY: Data were collected by a researcher-made and standard questionnaires based on HPM and added constructs of self-regulation, counter-conditioning, and stimulus control questionnaire regarding stretching exercise behavior among office employees working in comprehensive service centers affiliated to SBUMS. A multistage cluster sampling from May to Sep 2017 was done. To determinants the factors which effect on doing stretching exercise behavior; regression analysis was done through using SPSS 19 software. RESULTS: Totally 420 office employees with mean age of 37.1±8.03 years participated in this study. Perceived barriers to action (B =-0.106, P<0.001), could prevent the studied participants from engaging in SE. However, perceived self efficacy (B = 0.172, P < 0.001), commitment to a plan of action (B = 0.173, P=0.016), interpersonal influences (B = 0.099, P=0.003), and stimulus control (B = 0.193, P=0.007) were significant determinants for SE behavior. CONCLUSION: This study showed that the office employees who were more perceived self efficacy, commitment to a plan of action, interpersonal influences, stimulus control and less perceived barriers were more likely to perform stretching exercise.

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Determinants of Stretching Exercise Behavior among Office Employees using Health Promotion Model with Added Constructs

Delshad¹,

Tavafian²,

Kazemnejad³

2019

J Liaquat Uni Med Health Sci

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“…Personality predicts a wide range of human activities and occupational choices, including cadet performance (Mayer & Skimmyhorn 2017), musical sophistication (Green, Müllensiefen, Lamb & Rentfrow 2015), migration (Jokela 2009), human values (Fischer & Boer 2014), job satisfaction (Heller, Ferris, Brown & Watson 2009), and conflict in interpersonal relations (Bono, Boles, Judge & Lauver 2002). The personality is also an essential determinant of occupational choices in general (Holland 1997;Heckman, Stixrud & Urzua 2006;Borghans, Duckworth, Heckman & ter Weel 2008) and matters when individuals decide to venture a business, seeking to maintain it successfully (Zhao & Seibert 2006;Rauch & Frese 2007;Caliendo, Fossen & Kritikos 2014).…”

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Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin

Konon

Kritikos

2018

SSRN Journal

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The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices-from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of profiles using the example of career prediction and advice, involving a comparison of average trait scores of successful entrepreneurs with the traits of potential entrepreneurs. Based on a simple theoretical model estimated with GSOEP data and analyzed with Monte Carlo methods, we show, for the first time, that the choice of the comparison method matters substantially. We reveal that under certain conditions the performance of average profiles is inferior to the tossing of a coin. Alternative methods, such as directly estimating success probabilities, deliver better performance and are more robust.

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“…Individuals who are better able to reason about themselves and others are also able to interact with others more smoothly and their self-understanding may lead to better control. Both personal and emotional intelligences, it turns out, also correlate with higher levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness (an index of self-control) than thing-focused intelligences (DeYoung, 2011;Mayer & Skimmyhorn, 2017;Mayer, Panter, & Caruso, 2012).…”

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“…Intellectual development may be guided by these interests. William Skimmyhorn and I were able to model course performance at the United States Military Academy at West Point largely by dividing course grades into a GPA for thing-related courses such as engineering, math and science, on the one hand, and peoplerelated courses such as literature, philosophy, and environmental and social sciences on the other (Mayer & Skimmyhorn, 2017). Occupations, too, are often distinguished by whether they are thing-or people-oriented: Compare accounting, clerical, engineering and research work, on the one hand, to sales, social services, and interior decorating on the other (Holland, 1966).…”

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“…Specificity of Course Performance. Mayer and Skimmyhorn (2017) presented evidence that personal intelligence predicted performance in person-centered courses-those in the humanities and social sciences-better than thing-focused courses. Eight pairs of correlations were computed over a main and a replication sample (Ns = 893 to 1063) between an intelligence type (e.g., thing-or people-centered) that matched or mismatched grades in a course type (e.g., thing or people-focused).…”

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Intelligences about Things and Intelligences about People

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The Nature of Human Intelligence

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Human intelligence is redefined in light of new evidence that, in addition to general intelligence, broad mental abilities exist such as quantitative, spatial, and verbal-comprehension intelligences. Many of these broad intelligences pertain to circumscribed topics; that is, to reasoning within a broad content-area. For example, quantitative intelligence is concerned with mathematical reasoning, and spatial intelligence with reasoning about objects and their shapes and movements. Some among the broad intelligences are focused on reasoning about people: People-focused intelligences include personal intelligence (an intelligence about personality), social intelligence, and emotional intelligence. I argue for an understanding of each broad intelligence as involving a group of abilities necessary to reason about a specific subject area. To help organize the broad intelligences, a rationale is provided for categorizing them according to whether they focus mostly on things or on people.

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Personality attributes that predict cadet performance at West Point

Cited by 30 publications

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Determinants of Stretching Exercise Behavior among Office Employees using Health Promotion Model with Added Constructs

Determinants of Stretching Exercise Behavior among Office Employees using Health Promotion Model with Added Constructs

Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin

Intelligences about Things and Intelligences about People

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