Module 48 (Personality Applications)

Question 1

What life outcomes can personality predict

Answer 1

Health, mortality, academic success, job performance, relationship length and quality, drug use, and criminality

Question 2

What is personality comparable to for predicting life outcomes

Answer 2

IQ, Socioeconomic status, biomedical predictors of disease (ECG stress tests, ultrasounds, screening mammograms)

Question 3

How does personality affect health and longevity

Answer 3

-People who are higher in conscientiousness and lower in neuroticism tend to live longer
-Health behaviors and health care use

Question 4

How does personality affect anti/pro-social behavior?

Answer 4

-Agreeable and conscientious people are less likely to engage in antisocial behavior
-Agreeable people are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviors
-Personality has also been associated with voting behavior, volunteerism, and civic engagement

Question 5

How does personality affect close relationships

Answer 5

-Neuroticism is the biggest predictor of romantic relationship
-Observed in both self- and partner- reports

Question 6

How does personality affect school and work?

Answer 6

-Higher conscientiousness is associated with better academic performance
-Some evidence that personality predicts school grades better than achievement tests and predicts educational attainment and wages better than IQ

Question 7

How does personality affect happiness and life satisfaction?

Answer 7

-High extraversion
-Low neuroticism