Test Review: Personality and Substance Use ORG 5100/PSY 5610 Assessment/Psychometrics January 21, 2013 Abstract This paper reviews an assessment that was designed to measure personality. It includes the description of test, what the test attempted to measure, what the test is to be used with, basic principles and/or theories upon which the test is based, and any other special characteristics of the test as well as psychometric properties. This paper examines a study done in a journal called
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MGT 30O Write Up #1 “Why Personality Matters in the Workplace” http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/03/07/personality-matters/ This article by FoxBusiness states the importance of understanding personalities in the workplace, first by understanding your own personality. Business is based on relationships so it is pertinent that individuals understand how they interact, but also be knowledgeable on how others interact. This knowledge will create successful teams and overall a successful
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Requirements Personality Concepts Personality: The unique and relatively stable patterns of behavior, thoughts, and emotions shown by individuals. Interactionist Perspective: The view that behavior is a result of a complex interplay between personality and situational factors. Person-Job Fit: The extent to which individuals possess the traits and competencies required to perform specific jobs. 5 The Interactionist Perspective 6 The Big Five Dimensions of Personality Five basic
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Of the big five personality traits, conscientiousness is the one that describes me most accurately. I am known to be reliable, careful, very organized and most of all, dependable. I was not aware of these until I noticed that I was usually chosen to complete high profile tasks at work. One day at a one-on-one meeting with my supervisor, he pointed out that I could not take vacation at a specific time because of some sensitive tasks that was schedule to run during that time. He then explained that
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within academic settings has been a longstanding question addressed in past literature. The majority of the research focused on the relationship between the Big Five trait domains and academic achievement i.e., academic satisfaction and course change intention (O’Connor, & Paunonen, 2007). Studies consistently found that personality, specifically conscientiousness predicted academic performance (Noftle, & Robins, 2007). In contrast, little research had been done to specifically explore the
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Scholarly research on Facebook addiction has been associated adversely with conscientiousness and favorably with extra-version. Researchers have also tried to analyze certain individual personality traits to the addiction. This is based on the five-factor personality theory that evaluates individual personality on the basis of being intellectually and creatively focused,
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The Big 5 Personality Inventory The highest scoring area of the “Big 5 Personality Inventory” was “openness to Experience. The assessment said that, ”people with high scores are described as adventurous, imaginative, and variety-loving (Manning 311).” I scored 34 out of 35 in this area, and it is one of the three areas that do well with leadership. The reason why I score high in this area is because I have experienced different cultures through the military, and have an appreciation for music and
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3 Idiots Important Characters Five-Factor Model of Personality R. Madhavan (Farhan) Sharman Joshi (Raju) Aamir Khan (Rancho/Wangdu) Omi Vaidya (Chatur) Kareena Kapoor (Pia) Boman Irani (ViruS) -The movie “Three Idiots “is the Indian Comedy film directed by Rajkumar Hirani in the year 2009. -This movie probably one of the best Indian film ever made in the year 2009. -The movie had won several awards because of its high quality production. -The film uses real inventions by little-known people
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they do not care about getting a promotion or increasing the salary. I think this is because the great welfare of being a civil servant and low jobless rate are the motivators to these people. Behaviour&Personality From the BIG FIVE personality constructs, I know that those personalities could be classified. I volunteered to be the president in a company of BUSI1800, and then I allocated jobs to my group members, scheduled meeting time, tried my best to solve members’ problems and difficulties
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been shown to include both harmful work behaviors aimed at individuals, such as political digression and personal encroachment; and counterproductive work behaviors aimed at the organization, such as end product slowdown and property deviance Personality is a predictor of an employees leaning toward counterproductive work behaviors. With regard to the Big Five, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and openness to experience all predict counterproductive behaviors. When an employee is
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