This study uses data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and employs all basic traits from the Five Factor Personality Inventory – openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism – to examine the relationship between individuals’ personality and wages in the UK. The results indicate a negative linear relationship between wages and agreeableness a...

This paper examines the relationships between individual differences in situational triggers of aggressive behaviors (STAR) and the FFM personality traits. The investigation, conducted among Polish male and female offenders and students, revealed different relationships across samples. Among students, higher sensitivity to frustration and provocation was related to higher Neuroticism and lower ...

Personality plays a role in human behavior, and thus can influence consumer decisions on environmental goods and services. This paper analyses the influence of the big five personality dimensions (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness) in a discrete choice experiment dealing with preferences for the development of an environmental program for forest management...

Cyberloafing is the voluntary acts of individuals using their companies’ Internet access for nonwork related purposes during working hours. This study examines the impact of personality traits on cyberloafing as measured objectively by time spent by individuals on non-work related purposes. Specifically, we investigated (1) the main effects of Big-Five personality traits (Agreeableness, Conscie...

With the election of Donald Trump and landmark wins for populists across Europe, one today’s most pressing questions is: Why do people support populists? We theorize that citizens who score low on personality trait agreeableness—those are more distrusting, cynical, tough-minded—are susceptible to antiestablishment messages expressed by populists. Using 13 population-based cross-sectional sample...

Purpose: Personality traits that distinguish the individual from others can be shown as one of most important reasons individual's behavior. In this study, it was aimed to determine predictive effect personality on phubbing by considering relationship between and (extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness). Design/Methodology/Approach: The study group research consis...

This study aims to investigate the correlations among reticence, personality types and speaking proficiency. For this purpose, Unwillingness-to-Communicate Scale (UCS) questionnaire IPIP Big-five were used. Moreover, proficiency test sample was employed find correlation students’ The result revealed reticence tend reflect attitudes toward communication, dominant type agreeableness, in moderate ...

The past two decades have witnessed increased interest in the relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, as well emergence of Five-Factor Model key reference framework for study personality. In this paper, we provide first meta-analytical review empirical literature on association personal earnings Big Five traits. analysis combines results 62 peer-reviewed articles published f...

Personality traits are among the most complex quantitative traits. Certain personality traits have been postulated to be part of the inherited component of substance dependence (SD) risk. Association between the M2 cholinergic receptor gene (CHRM2) and SD has recently been reported and replicated (Wang et al. Hum. Mol. Genet. (2004);13:1903-1911; Luo et al. Hum. Mol. Genet. 2005;14:2421-2434). ...

We examine the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in a gift exchange experiment. Controlling for cognitive ability and personality characteristics, men offer higher wages than women, and men and women with greater cognitive ability and greater agreeableness on the Big Five personality scale offer higher wages as well. Men provide greater effort than women do, and respond to higher...