Personality Predictors of Behavioral Self-Regulation: Linking behavioral self-regulation to five-factor model factors, facets, and a compound trait

Abstract

This study examined relationships between a composite of several facet-level traits within the five-factor model (FFM) of personality and outcomes across 3 phases of behavioral selfregulation. The goal of this research was to investigate the potential of the compound trait approach as an alternative to predicting self-regulatory outcomes based on the full FFM, conscientiousness or other FFM factor-level traits, or any individual facet-level trait within the FFM. These relationships were investigated using a sample of 312 participants completing both goal-related questionnaires and a decision task designed to simulate aspects of selfregulated performance within organizations. Consistent with hypotheses, the collection of traits within the composite -assertiveness, activity, achievement striving, deliberation, dutifulness, self-discipline, and ideas -performed as well or better than any single factor or facet of the FFM. The future research and practice implications for goal propensity, a compound trait related to all phases of behavioral self-regulation, are discussed.

Broad Bandwidth or High Fidelity? Evidence from the Structure of Genetic and Environmental Effects on the Facets of the Five Factor Model

“…For example, Ones, Viswesvaran, and Schmidt (1993) claimed that for the prediction of job performance, a highly complex outcome typically requiring the ability to work in a social environment, maintain high productivity, and avoid loafing or theft, a compound personality measure (labeled integrity) reflecting high Conscientiousness and Agreeableness and low Neuroticism is necessary to account for the diverse requirements of most jobs. Further evidence of the usefulness of compound traits comes from research on customer service orientation, violence and aggression, stress tolerance, drug and alcohol use, and self-regulation (Fein & Klein, 2011; Ones & Viswesvaran, 2001a,b). …”

Effects of nurses’ personality traits and their environmental characteristics on their workplace learning and nursing competence

“…those showing the opposite traits of extraversion) became lower. As extraverted individuals prefer social interaction and like to receive feedback on their job performance from others (Fein & Klein, ; Krasman, ), the performance feedback might have acted to boost their feedback from learning, thereby facilitating their competence development. In contrast, introverted individuals do not prefer social interaction; thus, the feedback from others could have caused stress in them, thereby leading to lower competence.…”

“…In addition, extraverted individuals are sociable and prefer personal interaction with others; thus, they like to receive feedback on their job performance from others (Fein & Klein, ; Krasman, ). Therefore, a job environment that offers feedback can satisfy the need of extraverted nurses to receive feedback and can provide the opportunity to learn from it.…”

Positive Disposition in the Prediction of Strategic Independence among Millennials

“…Utilizing the compound trait approach where traits are blended into a composite for research purposes (Fein and Klein 2011;Wanberg and Banas 2000), the achievement striving component of conscientiousness and planfulness are combined to form the criterion in this study, strategic independence (Kirby et al 2016).…”