13.7 Utilising personality research Flashcards
What are the GOALS OF PERSONALITY?
To obtain VALID an RELIABLE RESEARCH SUPPORT for THEORIES AND RELATED ASSUMPTIONS, CONCEPTS and METHODS in order to expand KNOWLEDGE and APPLICATIONS on personality and to BUILD and REVISE personality theories
What can have enduring influences in adult occupational behaviour?
Personality
Value patterns
Work attitudes
formed in early life.
What influence can later in life influences and changes have such as work involvement and autonomy?
It can be instrumental in creating and maintaining work attitudes
and
can even influence the expression of personality
How do poor adjustment in early life affect later occupational life, according to research?
Less career advancement is shown
What do research indicate in terms of personality factors are found to aid career success and happiness?
Optimism Serious minded Energetic Contented Open Spontaneous Self-confident Self sufficient Ambitious Free from negative feelings Aggression Anxiety Irritability Unhappiness Dissatisfaction
Define criterion.
Something used as reason for making a judgement or decision
What could be a problem in Criterion Research?
The use of too broad an approach
in which too many predictors
are correlated with too many criteria.
How would you solve the problem in criterion research?
Research to be more specific
in isolating, defining and measuring
those personality and work-performance variables
that belong together
What is another problem in work-performance criteria?
Task or technical performance is not clearly differentiated from contextual activities.
Contextual activities (eg offering help, being loyal) are supportive to Technical performance (actual business tasks such as manufacturing)
Which 6 different approaches did Furnham analyse that are used to research personality?
1) BIOLOGICAL / CASE HISTORY
personal life details
2) CLASSIC PERSONALITY THEORY
(personality attributes measured)
3) SPECIFIC PERSONALITY MEASURES for specific work applications (such as locus of control)
4) ANALYSIS OF WORK ENVIRONMENT and EMPLOYEES to find best fit
5) CLASSIC ORGANISATIONAL and OCCUPATIONAL psychology (work-related variables are researched
6) Longterm studies of personality consistencies at work over time
What was Furnham’s findings about the different approaches to research personality?
They were theoretically and methodologically poor.
He suggested a model to illustrate the relationship between personality and work.
Schneider and Hough proposed 3 types of moderator variables (intervening factors) that might influence the relationship between personality and work performance. Name the 3 moderators?
1) PERSONAL moderator variables
traits
2) SITUATIONAL moderator variables
specific situations
3) CRITERION moderator variables
validity and reliability of performance criteriaWhat is central in the relationship between Personality and Occupational behaviours?
Personality traits
What is more consistent than other behaviours and have been shown to relate to many other psychological and work related variables?
Personality traits
In general all PERSONALITY INFORMATION or ASSESSMENT DATA can be classified as 1 or more methods of data collection. Name the 4 methods.
L data - Life data (personal history)
O data - Observer data (from people involved or knowledgeable about individual)
S data - Self-report data (verbal tellings)
T data - Test data (std tests and questionnaires)
