Personality matters

Abstract

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Social and emotional skills for student success and well-being

“…Woo et al (2014 [270] ) conducted a meta-analysis that looked at differential relationships among seven organisational criteria and openness characteristics varying in breadth. Their findings (shown in Table 6.4 below) that most job performance outcomes appeared to be unrelated to openness sub-domains, were similar to Judge et al's (2013 [261] ) findings shown above. The notable exception was adaptive performance criteria, which were operationalised as self-other ratings of interpersonal adaptability, expatriate adjustment, creative performance, and coping with organisational change.…”

“…Similar findings were reported by Judge at al. for conscientiousness skills predicting task performance and organisational citizenship (2013 [261] ). Bogg and Roberts (2004 [107] ) conducted a meta-analysis investigating relationships between conscientiousness facets and health-related behaviours.…”

“…Therefore, controlling for cognitive ability is unlikely to substantially decrease the ability of the openness facets to predict academic performance. Judge et al (2013 [261] ) conducted a meta-analysis investigating relationships between openness facets (operationalised as NEO-PI facets) and task and citizenship job performance. Throughout this report, a great many important relationships between social and emotional skills and important outcomes have been identified.…”

“…Judge et al (2013 [261] ) conducted a meta-analysis investigating relationships between extraversion facets (operationalised as NEO-PI facet scales), and task and citizenship performance. Their results are shown in Figure 6.11.…”

“…Interestingly, the global extraversion dimension, aggregating across 35 studies has been found to have a fairly strong relation with organisational citizenship. [261] ), "Hierarchical representations of the five-factor model of personality in predicting job performance: Integrating three organizing frameworks with two theoretical perspectives", http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0033901.…”