THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY OF THE SME MANAGER AND THEIR COMPANY’S PERFORMANCE

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850021
Author(s):  
JASNA AUER ANTONCIC ◽  
BOSTJAN ANTONCIC ◽  
DARJA KOBAL GRUM ◽  
MITJA RUZZIER
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Representative Random Sample

This study addresses a certain research issue: how do the Big Five personality traits of managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) impact the business performance of companies? A representative random sample of managers of SMEs in Slovenia was used for data collection through survey research. Hypotheses and the model were tested using structural equation modeling. A valuable contribution is made in the form of a new model of Big Five personality induced SME growth, profitability and new value creation. Openness of managers can be predictive of growth and new value creation of their companies, with the new value creation impact especially expressed in female-managed companies. Conscientiousness may not be crucial for performance, except for new value creation in females where this relationship can be negative. Extraversion can predict the growth and profitability. Agreeableness can have negative effects on all performance elements. Neuroticism can be predictive of growth and profitability. Practitioners must be aware of the importance of managers’ Big Five personality traits for SME performance. Where possible, managers may like to develop their levels of openness, extraversion, non-agreeableness and neuroticism.

Exploring Big Five personality traits and gender as predictors of entrepreneurs’ cognitive adaptability

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Ullah Bajwa ◽  
Khuram Shahzad ◽  
Haris Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Gender

Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the predictive role of personality and gender in cognitive adaptability of entrepreneurs. By using the theories of personality development, social learning, situated cognition and meta-cognition, a logical relationship between personality traits, gender difference and entrepreneurs’ cognitive adaptability was established. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative strategy and cross-sectional survey method was then deployed to empirically investigate the purposed relationships between variables of interest. Randomly selected 443 working entrepreneurs responded to the survey. Findings Factor analyzed structural equation modeling estimated cognitive adaptability as a second-order factor, with extroversion and neuroticism having a significant impact on cognitive adaptability. Multi-group moderation revealed a significant difference among females and males against the same two personality traits. Originality/value This study in its nature is the first attempt to link Big Five personality traits with cognitive adaptability of entrepreneurs.

Investigating the Mediating Role of Social Networking Service Usage on the Big Five Personality Traits and on the Job Satisfaction of Korean Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyondong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Service Usage ◽  
Work Related

This study examines how the Big Five personality traits and the use of social networking services (SNSs) promote job satisfaction among Korean workers. The study sample is drawn from the Korean Education & Employment Panel (KEEP) for 2011, which gathers comprehensive data on Koreans' individual demographics, including information regarding their education, families, and work and personal lives. Structural equation modeling is employed to examine the mediation model between Big-Five personality and job satisfaction of workers. From a sample of 1,646 workers employed in Korean workplaces, the authors found that the Big Five personality traits were significantly related to SNS usage and job satisfaction. SNS usage was found to be a factor in determining job satisfaction, and SNS usage partially mediated the relationship between personality (extroversion and neuroticism) and job satisfaction. To improve employees' work-related attitudes, organizations must recognize the growing influence of SNS usage on those workplace attitudes.

Personality, inflammation, and health status: Prospective associations from multiple perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Jo Wright ◽  
Sara J Weston ◽  
Sara Norton ◽  
Michaela Voss ◽  
Ryan Bogdan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Inflammatory Biomarkers ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five Personality

Objective: Personality influences many aspects of the health process, including associations with possible mechanisms such as inflammation and health behaviors. It is currently unclear to what extent, if any, the Big Five personality traits uniquely impact later health through independent pathways of inflammatory biomarkers and health behaviors. Furthermore, it is unknown if this relationship varies for self- and informant-reports of personality. Methods: Using data from older adults (N = 1,630) enrolled in the St. Louis Personality and Aging Network study, we test whether self- and informant-reported personality (Big Five personality traits) show consistent associations with inflammation (i.e., IL-6, CRP, and TNF-α). Further, we tested whether inflammation and health behavior indirectly link personality to health outcomes through independent or shared pathways using longitudinal mediation in a structural equation modeling framework.Results: Self- and informant-reports of personality uniquely predicted future levels of inflammatory biomarkers (self bs range from -0.11 to 0.07; informant bs range from -0.15 to 0.11). Additionally, both reports of personality impacted health through biomarker and health behavior pathways. Effects were primarily found for conscientiousness (indirect effect bs range from 0.01 to 0.04) and neuroticism (indirect effect bs range from -0.01 to -0.02) and IL-6 and CRP were the biomarkers most repeatedly linked with the Big Five personality traits and health. Conclusions: Findings highlight the potential benefits of using of multiple assessments of personality and the importance of examining multiple, distinct pathways by which personality might influence later health in order to more fully understand the mechanisms underlying this relationship.

Big Five personality traits and green consumption: bridging the attitude-intention-behavior gap

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Doanh Duong
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Green Products ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Green Consumption

PurposeThis study examines the roles of Big Five personality traits, including conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness to experience, in shaping green consumption behavior, as well as bridging the attitude-intention-behavior gap in environmentally friendly consumption and testing the gender differences between these associations.Design/methodology/approachA dataset of 611 consumers was collected by means of mall-intercept surveys in major Vietnamese cities. Structural equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS 24.0 was employed to test the proposed conceptual framework and hypotheses, while the PROCESS approach was utilized to estimate mediation standardized regression coefficients.FindingsThe study revealed that in addition to extraversion, other personality traits (agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism) were strongly associated with green consumption. Moreover, attitude towards green products and intention to buy environmentally friendly products were determined to have key roles in explaining consumers' pro-environmental behavior. There was also a notable difference in the impact of personality traits on men's and women's green consumption.Practical implicationsThis study provides useful recommendations for administrational practices seeking to understand consumer behavior, build appropriate marketing and communication campaigns and attract customers to buy environmentally friendly products.Originality/valueThis study makes efforts to resolve the attitude-intention-behavior gap, a recurring theme in the green consumption literature, as well as illustrates the significance of Big Five personality traits in explaining attitude, intention and behavior when purchasing green products. This research also demonstrates that Big Five personality traits have significantly different effects on green consumption attitudes and intention to carry out pro-behavioral consumption.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic and Personality: Agreeable People Are More Stressed by the Feeling of Missing

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10759
Author(s):  
Stephan Getzmann ◽  
Jan Digutsch ◽  
Thomas Kleinsorge
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Related Individual

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to contain it have substantial consequences for many people, resulting in negative effects on individual well-being and mental health. In the current study, we examined whether individual changes in perceived stress relative to pre-pandemic levels depended on differences in behavior, appraisal, and experience of pandemic-related constraints. In addition, we tested whether this potential relationship was moderated by personality traits. We conducted an online survey during the end of the first lockdown in Germany in spring 2020, and assessed pandemic-related individual consequences as well as perceived stress. These data were related to the big five personality traits and to ratings of perceived stress obtained from the same participants in a study conducted before the outbreak of the pandemic, using the same standardized stress questionnaires. There was no overall increase, but a large interindividual variety in perceived stress relative to pre-pandemic levels. Increased stress was associated especially with strong feelings of missing. This relationship was moderated by agreeableness, with more agreeable people showing a higher association of the feeling of missing and the increase of perceived stress. In addition, openness and conscientiousness were positively correlated with an increase in stress. The results highlight the importance of considering personality and individual appraisals when examining the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived stress and well-being.

Big-five Personality Traits and Pro-environmental Investment Specifics from an Emerging Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 097215091985848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Growing Economy

Investment in pro-environmental financial assets like ‘green shares’ is rapidly emerging field in the area of personal finance. However, there has been a dearth of studies that could possibly explain the factors that indulge an investor to invest in ‘green shares’, in the context of a growing economy like India. Therefore, the present study makes an attempt to analyse the possible role of personality trait of an individual investor, keeping in mind his concern towards the environment, on his investment decision in ‘green shares’. This study has incorporated the Big-Five personality traits, along with the measures that determines an individual’s affection towards his environment and its relationship with his decision to invest in environmental friendly companies. A total of 572 individual investors participated in the study by completing a questionnaires about their personality, environmental concern and investment decision through disproportionate stratified random sampling. The collected data was analysed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The results of the present study revealed that individuals largely differ in critical ways in terms of their personality traits, which in turn plays a very detrimental role towards deciding the investment decision in ‘green shares’.

scholarly journals Curiosity and subjective well-being: The mediation of the big five personality traits

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
Beatrice Balgiu
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Structural Equation Modelling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Mean Square ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Equation Modelling

This study aims to investigate the influence of curiosity on subjective well-being (SWB). More specifically, we examine the mediating role that the Big Five personality traits play in the relationships between these two variables. To this purpose, we used questionnaires in order to measure curiosity (Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II), SWB (Satisfaction with Life Scale and Scale of Positive and Negative Experiences) and the Big Five personality factors (Big Five Inventory-10) in a case of a sample of 330 undergraduates (Mean age = 18.93). The analysis carried out is based on correlations, regressions and structural equation modelling. The model obtained using structural equation modelling revealed a significant relationship between curiosity and SWB via personality characteristics (χ²/df =1.74; comparative fit index = 0.95; root mean square error of approximation = 0.051; standardised root mean square residual = 0.032). Therefore, curiosity correlates significantly with SWB, but individuals characterised by a high degree of curiosity tend to have well-developed well-being since they tend to be extroverted, perseverant and emotionally stable. Future studies should also focus on other types of personality traits.   Keywords: Arterial Five personality traits, curiosity, mediation, subjective well-being.

scholarly journals Positive Daily Experiences Are Associated with Personality Trait Changes in Middle–Aged Mothers

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 672-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Borghuis ◽  
Jaap J.A. Denissen ◽  
Klaas Sijtsma ◽  
Susan Branje ◽  
Wim H.J. Meeus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Daily Experiences

Theory and research have suggested that recurrent daily experiences can affect personality traits. The present study examined the longitudinal relation between individual differences in positive daily experiences and the Big Five personality traits. Data came from Dutch mothers ( N = 483; M age = 44 years at T1) who completed up to six yearly personality questionnaires and 15 between–year assessment bursts, lasting five consecutive days each. Using multilevel structural equation modelling, we found that individual differences in daily experiences of positive affect and perceived relationship support/affection with partners and children were positively associated with subsequent rank–order changes in all Big Five personality traits. In contrast, we found little evidence that personality traits were associated with rank–order changes in daily experiences, which may be due to the very–high rank–order stability of positive affect and relationship support. Furthermore, positive daily experiences demonstrated incremental validity in predicting rank–order changes in trait agreeableness, emotional stability, and openness, over and above daily negative affect and relationship conflict. The results suggest that positive affective and interpersonal daily experiences contribute to positive personality trait changes in middle adulthood. We discuss these results in the context of contemporary theories of personality trait development. © 2018 European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals The Big Five Personality Traits and Uses of Music

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic ◽  
Viren Swami ◽  
Adrian Furnham ◽  
Ismail Maakip
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Mood States ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Target Paper

The current study set out to replicate and extend a recent paper ( Chamorro-Premuzic & Furnham, 2007 ) on personality and uses of music using structural equation modeling. Responses to questionnaire data from 227 Malaysian university students showed that, in line with our hypotheses, individuals higher in Neuroticism were more likely to use music for emotional regulation (influencing their mood states), Extraversion positively predicted use of music as background or for distraction, and Openness to Experience predicted cognitive use of music. However, contrary to the target paper, Conscientiousness did not predict use of music for emotional regulation and Extraversion was positively rather than negatively linked with that use of music. Results are discussed in terms of the generalizability of previous findings on the Big Five as determinants of uses of music.

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