An Empirical Investigation of Student Career Interests in Auditing Using the Big Five Model of Personality

The current study tries to understand the diverse nature of relationship between personality Big Five Model (PBFM) and student's perception of abusive supervision in higher education institutions of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Pakistan. Data was collected in dyads i.e. (supervisors were asked to rate their personality attributes while student were asked to rate the supervisor behavior) through adopted construct. For this purpose, data was collected from three government state universities and one Private Sector University. The focus was on MS/M.Phill and PhD student and their supervisors of the mentioned universities. After measuring normality and validity regression analysis was conducted to assess the impact of supervisor personality characteristics that leads to abusive supervision. Findings indicate interestingly that except agreeableness other four attributes of (PBFM) are play their role for abusive supervision. The results are novel in the nature as for the first time Neuroticism, openness to experience, extraversion and conscientiousness are held responsible for the abusive supervision. The study did not explore the demographic characteristics, and moderating role of organizational culture, justice and interpersonal deviances to understand the strength of relationship in more detail way. Keywords: Personality big five model, abusive supervision, HEIs

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Why Some Students Adjust Easily While Others Can Not? Stress and Adjustment to University: Personality as Moderator

Journal of College Student Retention Research Theory & Practice ◽

10.1177/15210251211002179 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 152102512110021

Author(s):

Ayşe I. Kural ◽

Berrin Özyurt

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Perceived Stress ◽

Big Five ◽

Detrimental Effect ◽

Predictive Utility ◽

Negative Valence ◽

Big Five Model ◽

University Adjustment ◽

Moderating Role

Research has demonstrated consistently that personality and perceived stress, independently, are essential factors for university adjustment among university freshmen; however, little is known about the associations between personality, perceived stress, and adjustment together. Our primary goal was to explore the predictive utility of perceived stress for explaining university adjustment among university freshmen ( N = 290). We also tested the moderating role of personality traits and this research was embedded within a Big Five model of personality including the sixth trait for Turkish context, ‘Negative Valence’. Results addressed that only conscientiousness and negative valence moderated the perceived stress and adjustment association. Students high on negative valence and/or conscientiousness tended to experience the detrimental effect of perceived stress on university adjustment more due to their personality. These results suggested that personality might be an important factor to include in adjustment fostering interventions for freshmen at universities.

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Judging What Others Enjoy: Desirability and Observability of Interests

Journal of Career Assessment ◽

10.1177/10690727211055862 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 106907272110558

Author(s):

Miranda M. McIntyre

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Big Five ◽

Career Interests ◽

Occupational Prestige ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Personality Assessments ◽

Major Life ◽

Subjective Perceptions ◽

Big Five Traits ◽

Advance Knowledge

Interests guide major life decisions such as choosing a career path, yet little is known about the subjective characteristics of individual differences in interests. Prior research on personality traits has demonstrated that subjective trait perceptions influence the validity and reliability of personality assessments. The current work expands the study of these subjective characteristics to individual differences in interests. Desirability and observability were assessed among 13 constructs: person orientation, thing orientation, RIASEC career interests, and Big Five traits. Judgments of interest dimensions varied considerably, with socially-related interests rated more desirable than thing-related interests. Some career-related interests were low in observability, and thus may be susceptible to being overlooked or categorized inaccurately. The patterns observed in interest characteristics were comparable to patterns in career choice hit rates, occupational prestige, and self-other convergence. The findings advance knowledge of differences between interest dimensions and suggest that subjective perceptions should be considered in interest assessment.

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The Relevance Of The Big Five Model To Students’ Adaptation To The Academic Environment Personality and Academic Experiences

Psico ◽

10.15448/1980-8623.2019.4.31599 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 31599

Author(s):

Cristian Zanon ◽

Alexandra Araújo ◽

Claudio S. Hutz

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Big Five ◽

Academic Experiences ◽

Academic Environment ◽

Academic Experience ◽

Questionnaire Data ◽

Big Five Model ◽

Academic Adaptation ◽

Experience Questionnaire

The Big Five has been used as a theoretical framework for the evaluation of the 21stcentury skills and is associated with desirable outcomes. This study evaluates the extent to which the Big Five relates to students’ adaptation to the academic environment. Participants were 845 undergraduate students (60.7% female), aged from 17 to 31 years who answered the Factorial Personality Battery and the Academic Experience Questionnaire. Data reduction analysis at the facet level recovered the Big Five structure and indicated that Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Conscientiousness are, respectively, associated with higher personal, interpersonal, and study related academic adaptation dimensions. Agreeableness and Openness did not cluster with academic dimensions, suggesting lower relevance for academic adaptation in higher education.***A Relevância do Modelo dos Cinco Grandes Para a Adaptação dos Estudantes ao Ambiente Acadêmico***O Big Five tem sido usado como referencial teórico para a avaliação das habilidades do século 21 e está associado a resultados desejáveis. Este estudo avalia o quanto os Cinco Grandes Fatores se relacionam com a adaptação dos alunos ao ambiente acadêmico. Participaram 845 estudantes de graduação (60,7% do sexo feminino), com idades entre 17 e 31 anos, que responderam a Bateria de Personalidade Fatorial e o Questionário de Experiência Acadêmica. A análise de redução de dados no nível de faceta recuperou a estrutura dos cinco grandes fatores e indicou que Extroversão, Neuroticismo e Conscienciosidade estão, respectivamente, associados a dimensões de adaptação acadêmica pessoais, interpessoais e relacionadas ao estudo. A Amabilidade e a Abertura não se agruparam com as dimensões acadêmicas, sugerindo menor relevância para a adaptação acadêmica no ensino superior.

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The Role of Personality and Intelligence in Assortative Mating

The Spanish Journal of Psychology ◽

10.5209/rev_sjop.2012.v15.n2.38879 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 680-687 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Sergio Escorial ◽

Carmen Martín-Buro

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Assortative Mating ◽

Big Five ◽

Educational Level ◽

Big Five Model ◽

Two Measures ◽

Effect Of Age

Assortative mating is the individuals' tendency to mate with those who are similar to them in some variables, at a higher rate than would be expected from random. This study aims to provide empirical evidence of assortative mating through the Big Five model of personality and two measures of intelligence using Spanish samples. The sample consisted of 244 Spanish couples. It was divided into two groups according to relationship time. The effect of age, educational level and socioeconomic status was controlled. The results showed strong assortative mating for intelligence and moderate for personality. The strongest correlations for Personality were found in Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness.

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Ego-Strength, Hardiness, Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Optimism, and Maladjustment: Health-Related Personality Constructs and the “Big Five” Model of Personality

Assessment ◽

10.1177/107319119600300203 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 115-131 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Larry C. Bernard ◽

Steven Hutchison ◽

Alexander Lavin ◽

Pamela Pennington

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Big Five ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Factor Model ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Ego Strength ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Big Five Model ◽

And Coping

Six personality measures used in health psychology; the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) criterion measures of stress, self-reported health status, and coping; and a measure of social desirability were administered to samples of college students and adult community volunteers ( N = 589) in a series of four confirmatory and exploratory factor analytic studies. The hypothesis that the six independently developed personality measures of ego-strength, hardiness, self-esteem, self-efficacy, optimism, and maladjustment would share common variance and that a hierarchical factor model with a single, higher-order Health Proneness factor loading two lower-order factors—Self-Confidence and Adjustment—would account for the covariance in these measures was tested against single and three-factor models and confirmed. The factor model was examined with respect to general personality as represented in the “Big Five” Model. Adjustment was related negatively to NEO-FFI Neuroticism and positively to NEO-FFI Conscientiousness and Agreeableness, whereas Self-Confidence was related to NEO-FFI Extraversion. None of these relationships is extensive, nor does any one account for more than 40% of the variance. Evidence of the validity of Self-Confidence and Adjustment was found in their moderate relationships to measures of stress, health status, and coping, and in their weak relationships to social desirability and negative affectivity.

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Student Personality and Learning Outcomes in E-Learning

Student Satisfaction and Learning Outcomes in E-Learning - Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-615-2.ch013 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 294-315 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eyong B. Kim

Keyword(s):

Learning Outcomes ◽

Learning Style ◽

Big Five ◽

Classroom Environment ◽

Traditional Classroom ◽

Web Based ◽

Big Five Model ◽

E Learning ◽

Personality Models ◽

The Relationship

Web-based courses are a popular format in the e-learning environment. Among students enrolled in Web-based courses, some students learn a lot, while others do not. There are many possible reasons for the differences in learning outcomes (e.g., student’s learning style, satisfaction, motivation, etc.). In the last few decades, students’ personality has emerged as an important factor influencing the learning outcomes in a traditional classroom environment. Among different personality models, the Big-Five model of personality has been successfully applied to help understand the relationship between personality and learning outcomes. Because Web-based courses are becoming popular, the Big-Five model is applied to find out if students’ personality traits play an important role in a Web-based course learning outcomes.

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Using the occupational personality questionnaire (OPQ) for measuring broad traits

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology ◽

10.4102/sajip.v30i4.176 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Deléne Visser ◽

J. M. Du Toit

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Factor Model ◽

Interpersonal Relationship ◽

Job Applicants ◽

Western Society ◽

Personality Questionnaire ◽

Concept Model ◽

Big Five Model ◽

Five Factors ◽

African Context

The widespread acceptance of the Big Five model implies that personality consists of relatively independent dimensions that form a taxonomy whereby individual differences may be explained. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the subscales of an established personality inventory that measures narrow traits of personality, the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ), could be reduced meaningfully to fit a broad factor model within a South African context. The OPQ 5.2 concept model was administered to 453 job applicants in the telecommunications sector. An exploratory factor analysis yielded a six-factor structure that included five factors corresponding to the Big Five model of personality. The sixth factor, labeled Interpersonal Relationship Harmony, resembled the description of the Chinese tradition factor, extracted in a non-Western society. Opsomming Die wye aanvaarding van die Groot-Vyfmodel impliseer dat persoonlikheid uit relatief onafhanklike dimensies bestaan wat ’n taksonomie vorm waarmee individuele verskille verklaar kan word. Die doel van die ondersoek was om vas te stel of die subskale van ’n gevestigde persoonlikheidsvraelys wat gedetailleerde persoonlikheidstrekke meet, die Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ), op sinvolle wyse gereduseer kon word tot ’n breë faktormodel in ’n Suid-Afrikaanse konteks. Die OPQ 5.2 konsepmodel is toegepas op 453 werkapplikante in die telekommunikasiesektor. ’n Ondersoekende faktorontleding het ’n sesfaktorstruktuur gelewer, insluitende vyf faktore wat met die Groot Vyf persoonlikheidsmodel ooreenstem. Die sesde faktor wat as Interpersoonlike Verhoudingsharmonie benoem is, toon ooreenstemming met die Chinese tradisiefaktor wat in ’n nie-Westerse samelewing onttrek is.

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