Personality and Cultural Values

Question 1

One of the “Big Five” dimensions of personality reflecting traits like being nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, jealous, and unstable.

Answer 1

Neuroticism

Question 2

The degree to which a culture values stereotypically male traits or stereotypically female traits.

Answer 2

Masculinity-femininity

Question 3

A personality framework that evaluates people on the basis of four types or preferences: extraversion versus introversion, sensing versus intuition, thinking versus feeling, and judging versus perceiving.

Answer 3

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Question 4

A dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant moods such as hostility, nervousness, and annoyance.

Answer 4

Negative affectivity

Question 5

A collection of 170 researchers from 62 cultures who examine the impact of culture on the effectiveness of leader attributes, behaviors, and practices.

Answer 5

Project GLOBE

Question 6

One of the “Big Five” dimensions of personality reflecting traits like being dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking, and persevering.

Answer 6

Conscientiousness

Question 7

The degree to which situations have clear behavioral expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between individuals less important.

Answer 7

Situational strength

Question 8

A strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means of expressing one’s personality.

Answer 8

Communion striving

Question 9

One of the “Big Five” dimensions of personality reflecting traits like being talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold , and dominant.

Answer 9

Extraversion

Question 10

the five major dimensions of personality including conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion.

Answer 10

Big Five

Question 11

Whether one believes the events that occur around him or her are self-driven or driven by the external environment.

Answer 11

Locus of control

Question 12

Expressions of personality that influence behavior through preferences for certain environments and activities.

Answer 12

Interests

Question 13

One of the “Big Five” dimensions of personality reflecting traits like being kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, courteous, and warm.

Answer 13

Agreeableness

Question 14

One who views his or her cultural values as “right” and values of other cultures as “wrong”.

Answer 14

Ethnocentrism

Question 15

Integrity tests that do not directly ask about dishonesty, instead assessing more general personality traits associated with dishonest acts.

Answer 15

Veiled purpose tests

Question 16

The structures and propensities inside a person that explain his or her characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. It reflects what people are like and creates their social reputation.

Answer 16

Personality

Question 17

Shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture that influence the expression of traits.

Answer 17

Cultural values

Question 18

Recurring trends in people’s responses to their environment.

Answer 18

Traits

Question 19

A strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a means of expressing one’s personality.

Answer 19

Status striving

Question 20

Being more likely to appraise day-to-day situations as stressful, thereby feeling that stressors are encountered more frequently.

Answer 20

Differential exposure

Question 21

A strong desire to accomplish task-related goals as a means of expressing one’s personality.

Answer 21

Accomplishment striving

Question 22

A dispositional tendency to experience pleasant, engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation.

Answer 22

Positive affectivity

Question 23

The degree to which a culture prefers equal power distribution or an unequal power distribution

Answer 23

Power distance

Question 24

Performance in the routine conditions that surround daily job tasks.

Answer 24

Typical performance

Question 25

Exaggerating responses to a personality test in a socially desirable fashion.

Answer 25

Faking

Question 26

The degree to which situations provide cues that trigger the expression of a given personality trait.

Answer 26

Trait activation

Question 27

Situations in which two people have just met.

Answer 27

Zero acquaintance

Question 28

The degree to which a culture stresses values that are past- and present-oriented or future-oriented

Answer 28

Short-term vs. long-term orientation

Question 29

One of the “Big Five” dimensions of personality reflecting traits like being curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, and sophisticated.

Answer 29

Openness to experience

Question 30

The degree to which a culture has a loosely knit social framework or a tight social framework.

Answer 30

Individualism-collectivism

Question 31

The shared values, beliefs motives, identities, and interpretations that result from common experiences of members of a society and are transmitted across generations.

Answer 31

Culture

Question 32

The degree to which a culture tolerates ambiguous situations or feels threatened by them.

Answer 32

Uncertainty avoidance

Question 33

Integrity tests that ask about attitudes toward dishonesty, beliefs about the frequency of dishonesty, desire to punish dishonesty, and confession of past dishonesty.

Answer 33

Clear purpose tests

Question 34

Being less likely to believe that one can cope with the stressors experienced on a daily basis.

Answer 34

Differential reactivity

Question 35

Personality tests that focus specifically on a predisposition to engage in theft and other counterproductive behaviors (sometimes also called “honesty tests”).

Answer 35

Integrity tests

Question 36

An interest framework summarized by six different personality types including realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional.

Answer 36

RIASEC model

Question 37

Performance in brief, special circumstances that demand a person’s best effort.

Answer 37

Maximum performance