This study investigates the employee-employer relationship, focusing specifically on trust. The trust building relationship is investigated by exploring the current perspective on trust, the elements of trust and the role of a five-factor model on personality (conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, resourcefulness and extraversion) and managerial practices (credibility, group ma...

In this study with a sample of chronic pain patient, personality profiles defined as the individual’s scores on all five dimensions (NEO-FFI) are used, to establish relations with coping, quality of life, and adaptation to disease. After a cluster analysis two groups have been obtained: the first one being a trend to intermediate scores in all five dimensions and characterized by moderate neuro...

This paper uses the Five-Factor Model of personality structure as a comprehensive organizing framework to analyze the effects of personality on earnings. Using data from a longitudinal survey of American high school graduates, we find that extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience are rewarded/penalized significantly and differentially across genders...

background: people's personality and psychological factors usually affects job satisfaction or job dissatisfaction and so level of burnout. in this study the role of personality characteristics in nurses' burnout is examined. methods: it is a correlation study. the statistic population is consisted of all nurses in a state hospital of shahr-e kord who've been working there during 2007. one hund...

Levels of fertility and the shape age-specific schedule vary substantially across U.S. regions with some states having peak relatively early others late. Structural institutions or economic factors partly explain these heterogeneous patterns, but regional differences in personality might also contribute to fertility. Here, we evaluated whether variat...

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...

Controlling for cognitive ability, personality characteristics and gender effects in a gift exchange experiment, men offer higher wages compared to women, as do agents with greater cognitive ability and those scoring higher on agreeableness on the Big Five personality scale. In turn, men provide greater effort than women do. For both genders, a one standard deviation increase in agreeableness g...

natural disasters (Cryder et al., 2006; McMillen, Smith, & Fisher, 1997; Vazquez, Cervellon, Perez-Sales, Vidales, & Gaborit, 2001). As a result of this growing body of research, it is now possible to begin formulating predictive outcome models that may facilitate identification of service needs and identify areas of strength for survivors following natural disaster experiences. A full review o...