The Dark Side of Conscientiousness

Furnham, Adrian

doi:10.4236/psych.2017.811122

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“…They also value rules and structure to their lives usually provided in the workplace. Furnham (2017) found a significant relationship between higher conscientiousness scores and higher scores on the dark side trait Diligence on the HDS, which is relates to perfectionism. Diligence is essentially a sub-clinical manifestation of OCD.…”

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Exploring the Dark side of conscientiousness. The relationship between conscientiousness and its potential derailers: perfectionism and narcissism

Coleman¹,

Furnham

Treglown³

2022

Curr Psychol

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The current study aimed to identify what individual differences and situational variables cause derailment in highly conscientious people. Data were from a representative working sample of 716 participants across 27 industries, spanning both management and non-management roles. We tested four hypotheses with regard to bright- and dark-side personality traits and the relationship between boss/manager and staff member. Hierarchical linear regressions revealed mixed findings for Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) as a stressor. For maladaptive perfectionism it was confirmed, but not for adaptive perfectionism or narcissism. Results suggest introverts may be more prone to maladaptive perfectionism, even with higher levels of conscientiousness if there are lower LMX levels. Overall, the findings suggest selecting for conscientiousness alone and discounting other personality traits and situational variables may be detrimental in practice. Further implications are discussed alongside the study limitations.

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Exploring the Dark side of conscientiousness. The relationship between conscientiousness and its potential derailers: perfectionism and narcissism

Coleman¹,

Furnham

Treglown³

2022

Curr Psychol

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“…In contrast, a managerial position that requires rapid processing of complex information would prefer a less reflective leader. This is because a highly reflective leader may be over-cautious, and would reject change and innovation (Furnham, 2017), leading to decision inaccuracy (Nordgren and Dijksterhuis, 2009).…”

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Team knowledge management: how leaders’ expertise recognition influences expertise utilization

Zhao

2022

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PurposeThis paper aims to extend the literature on how to harness the expertise of team members. This paper suggests that the leader’s expertise recognition plays an important role in enhancing team effectiveness. In addition, leader’s personal dispositions shape how the leader’s recognition could benefit team expertise utilization.Design/methodology/approachThis paper utilizes a two-wave, multi-source (team leaders and team members rated) survey design from 78 information technology teams to test the proposed moderated mediation model.FindingsThe data analysis revealed that a leader’s expertise recognition is positively related to team expertise utilization. Moreover, the leaders’ traits (i.e. social dominance and reflectiveness) act as important boundary conditions of this relationship. Specifically, only when the leader is less socially dominant or more reflective can they fully utilize the expertise recognition and enhance team creativity through team expertise utilization.Originality/valueThis study investigated an important issue that expertise utilization research has hitherto overlooked: the effects of leader’s expertise recognition on team expertise utilization and team creativity.

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“…It appears that diligence, a facet of conscientiousness, was captured by both items. That conscientiousness facets can link motivation to the stress resulting from over-commitment has been discussed in debates about the dark side of conscientiousness (e.g., Boyce et al, 2010;Coleman et al, 2020;Furnham, 2017;McCord et al, 2014) and about harmful aspects of perfectionism (e.g., Hrabluik et al, 2012;Qi et al, 2012). Finally, a last overlap of engagement to burnout items was observed between the burnout symptom "I feel a lack of motivation in my schoolwork and often think of giving up" (SB2) and the engagement indicator "I follow the rules at school" (SE3).…”

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What different network models reveal about the relation of engagement to burnout

Kulakow,

Moeller

2024

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Schoolwork Engagement and school burnout are both multi-facetted constructs consisting of multiple components, including emotional, affective and behavioral facets for engagement and exhaustion, cynicism and inadequacy for burnout. Although the desirable engagement and the undesirable burnout symptoms are negatively correlated, there are some individuals who report high levels of both engagement and burnout. Within-person analyses are needed to detect such engaged but burned out individuals, who are otherwise overlooked if common between-person correlations are examined.This study extends prior comparison of insights to be gained from between- versus within-person analyses. Based on the critique that multi-facetted constructs may be better represented in psychometric networks than latent factor measurement models (see Lange et al., 2020), we examined the relationships among and between the specific engagement and burnout facets with psychometric and residual network models and compared their insights to the common latent factor (CFA) approach. To account for the problem that within-person co-endorsements of engagement and burnout experiences may be overlooked with between-person correlations, we then compared the inter-individual correlation-based psychometric and residual networks to an intra-individual co-endorsement network.The present study shows how motivational research may benefit from utilizing and contrasting psychometric network models as they may help to examining specific facets of constructs and that the inferences and conclusions that are drawn might change in contrast to the use of conventional latent factor approaches.

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The Dark Side of Conscientiousness

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Exploring the Dark side of conscientiousness. The relationship between conscientiousness and its potential derailers: perfectionism and narcissism

Exploring the Dark side of conscientiousness. The relationship between conscientiousness and its potential derailers: perfectionism and narcissism

Team knowledge management: how leaders’ expertise recognition influences expertise utilization

What different network models reveal about the relation of engagement to burnout

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