Individuals with this Big Five Trait experience more negative life events than most individuals.
What is Neuroticism.
100
The database used to search for studies that referenced personality and job satisfaction.
What is PsycINFO.
100
This Big Five Trait was the strongest correlate of job satisfaction.
What is Neuroticism.
100
This model is a fruitful basis for examining the dispositional sources of job satisfaction.
What is the five-factor model.
200
Individuals with this Big Five Trait are predisposed to experience positive emotions, which likely generalizes to job satisfaction.
What is Extraversion.
200
The population in which the study wished to generalize.
What is normal employed adults.
200
These two Big Factor Traits had strong positive correlations with job satisfaction.
What is Conscientiousness and Extraversion.
200
These are key aspects of the "happy personality."
What are emotional stability (low neuroticism) and extraversion.
300
This Big Five Trait relates to scientific and artistic creativity, divergent thinking, low religiosity, and political liberalism.
What is Openness to Experience.
300
The level at which satisfaction needed to be measured at.
What is the individual level.
300
These two Big Factor Traits showed weak correlations with job satisfaction.
What is Openness to Experience and Agreeableness.
300
These three factors that lead to personality-job satisfaction relations may be similar to those that lead to personality-life satisfaction relations.
What are cognitive, affective, and behavioral factors.
400
This Big Five Trait relates to happiness and greater motivation to achieve interpersonal intimacy.
What is Agreeableness.
400
The setting in which satisfaction needed to occur in.
What is a natural job setting.
400
There was a slight tendency for job satisfaction to correlate more strongly with this type of measure.
What is indirect measure.
400
This framework may also explain the personological basis of job satisfaction.
What is core self-evaluation.
500
This Big Five Trait represents a general work involvement tendency and thus leads to a greater likelihood of obtaining satisfying work rewards.
What is Conscientiousness.
500
The three reasons for eliminating data from the meta-analysis study.
What is:
a) They did not measure any discernible personality trait.
b) They assessed a trait that was not classified in terms of the five-factor model.
c) They did not report data.
500
The personality-job satisfaction correlations did not differ much by these two research designs.
What are cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs.
500
These two factors argue in favor of the five-factor model.
What are:
1) The five-factor model contains an additional trait that is relevant to job satisfaction (Conscientiousness) than the PA-NA typology.
2) PA and NA are assessments of mood or "affective traits," which are less stable than other dispositional measures and may be confounded with life satisfaction.