Three hundred twenty one (321) Far Eastern couriers completed the Job Performance Personality Inventory (JPPI), an occupational-based personality inventory. All “Big Five” personality dimensions were significantly correlated with job performance appraisal scores at varying magnitudes, with the most highly correlated dimension being conscientiousness. Based upon stepwise multiple regression anal...

This study reviews the recent empirical studies on knowledge sharing and personality and diversity. The paper begins with an overview of the concepts of knowledge sharing and personality. Secondly, the Big Five personality traits (openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism) and aspects of diversity (culture and gender) that influence knowledge sharin...

The aim of the present study was to explore associations between Big-Five (B-F) personality factors and obsession-compulsion. A sample Khartoum University students recruited (N = 547). They responded Arabic Personality Inventory Scale Obsession-Compulsion-Revised. Results indicated that women obtained a significantly higher mean scores than did men on agreeableness, neuroticism, extraversion, b...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the offspring of centenarians have personality characteristics that are distinct from the general population. DESIGN Case-control. SETTING Nationwide U.S. sample. PARTICIPANTS Unrelated offspring of centenarians (n=246, mean age 75) were compared with published norms. MEASUREMENTS Using the NEO-Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) questionnaire, measures of th...

INTRODUCTION While there have been studies exploring the impact of personality on medical student selection and performance there has not been an investigation of the personality of students at different schools. METHOD Demographic data and responses to the NEO measure of personality traits were collected from medical students in the first two weeks of their enrolment (2011) in seven medical ...

The present study examined the association between adolescents' personality traits and smoking, and tested whether this association was moderated by birth order or gender. Participants were 832 Dutch siblings aged 13 to 17 years participating at baseline assessment (T1) and at follow-up 12 months later (T2). Personality was assessed by applying a variable-centered approach including five person...

The purpose of this research effort is to apply Task-Technology Fit (TTF) theory to understand how to effectively support experiential consumer tasks. A 2x2 experiment was designed to consider fit issues related to task characteristics (task type: search vs. experiential) and technology characteristics (interface structure: search-oriented vs. experiential-oriented) along with individual charac...

This study explored the relationship between motivational potential characteristics of a job (measured by motivating scores or MPS) and satisfaction moderation effect personality traits. The results showed that agreeableness trait could not significantly predict satisfaction. However, higher MPS among employees, tendency. Conscientiousness had positive correlation. interaction conscientiousness...

This project investigated how individual differences in the big-five personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness) predicted plant-food consumption in young adults. A total of 1073 participants from two samples of young adults aged 17-25 reported their daily servings of fruits, vegetables, and two unhealthy foods for comparison purp...

We report a meta-analysis of up to 40 data sets that examined the personality dimensions in the Five-Factor Model (FFM) and the integrated Five-Factor Model (IFFM) in relation to ADHD symptom domains of inattention (IA) and hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI). The IFFM incorporated the dimensions of other personality models (in particular, those of Eysenck, Tellegen, and Cloninger, as well as the FF...