This study investigates if different personality types are connected to different motives for Instagram use. 187 participants with 150 females and 44 men were part of this study and they were recruited through a Facebook group. The findings were that there was no gender differences in the use of Instagram and that the most frequent motive for Instagram use was “Surveillance/knowledge about others”. People who scored high on the neurotic personality trait tended to use Instagram with “surveillance” as their motive, while extraverted people tend to use Instagram with “documentation” as their motive. People who score high on  openness mostly used Instagram with “creativity” as their motive, and people spend mostly 5 to 1 hour a day on the application. The conclusion is that different personality traits are connected to different motives for Instagram use but not all of the five in the Big Five. The ones that were connected to different motives were extraversion, openness and neuroticism. Conscientiousness and agreeableness had no connection to any of the motives. / Denna studie undersöker skillnader i personlighetstyper kopplat till olika motiv för Instagram-användning. 194 personer har deltagit i studien varav 150 stycken kvinnor och 44 män och de blev rekryterade via en Facebook-grupp. Inga könsskillnader i användandet av Instagram hittades och det främsta motivet för användning var "övervakning/kunskap om andra". Personer som har mycket av personlighetsdraget neuroticism tenderar att använda Instagram med "dokumentation" som deras motiv, och personer som har mycket av openness tenderar att ha "kreativitet" som deras motiv för Instagram-användning. Personer spenderar generellt 5 minuter till en timme om dagen i appen. Slutsatser som dras är att personer med olika personlighetstyper har olika motiv för användandet av Instagram men inte alla personlighetstyper i Femfaktorteorin. Personer som hade mycket av personlighetsdraget conscientiousness eller agreeableness hade ingen koppling till något av motiven.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 jaciana.pdf: 667514 bytes, checksum: 543d150a01c06b10933602382c393667 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-01-12 / The Big Five theory has been the basis for much of the personality assessment work conducted recently. Currently this is the theory that provides a better understanding of personality. The Big Five inventory- 10 (BFI-10) is a scale composed of 10 items that assesses five dimensions of personality, with two items for each factor: Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness. The purpose of this study due to the need for a brief instrument based on Big Five Theory for use in research in Brazil. Were interviewed 1158 people, being the majority female (58%) aged between 14 and 35 years. In the original form of the instrument was added one item in each factor to select later the 10 items with better psychometric qualities. There was evidence of construct validity and the rates of internal consistence were acceptable. At the end of the analysis it was identified that Neuroticism was the factor that demonstrated greater legitimacy, whereas Agreeableness was the less representative. Associations were observed among factors and the sociodemographic variables: gender, age and scholarity. It has been concluded that the adapted BFI-10 can be used when the time available is very limited. Considering the limitations of a so brief scale, the results should be interpreted cautiously. Further studies should be made to complement the psychometric characteristics of the scale / Recentemente a teoria Big Five tem servido de base para grande parte do trabalho de avaliação da personalidade. O Big Five Inventory 10 (BFI-10) é uma escala de 10 itens (dois a cada fator), que avalia cinco dimensões da personalidade: Extroversão; Amabilidade; Conscienciosidade; Neuroticismo e Abertura a experiências. A adaptação de um instrumento baseado no BFI-10 foi o propósito do presente estudo, em função da necessidade de um instrumento breve baseado na teoria Big Five para uso em pesquisas no Brasil. Foram entrevistadas 1158 pessoas, 58% do sexo feminino, com idades entre 14 e 35 anos. À forma original do instrumento foi acrescentado um item em cada fator para selecionar posteriormente os 10 com melhores resultados. As evidências de validade de construto e os índices de fidedignidade foram aceitáveis. O fator Neuroticismo teve os melhores resultados, enquanto Amabilidade foi o menos representativo. Foram observadas associações entre os fatores e as variáveis sóciodemográficas: gênero, idade e escolaridade. Concluiu-se que a escala baseada no BFI-10 poderá ser utilizada quando o tempo disponível for muito limitado. Considerando as limitações de uma escala breve, os resultados devem ser interpretados com precaução. Novos estudos devem ser feitos para complementar as características psicométricas da escala

Sistemas de Geração de Língua Natural tentam produzir textos de maneira automatizada. Em sistemas desse tipo, é desejável produzir textos de forma realista - ou psicologicamente plausível - como forma de aumentar o engajamento do leitor. Uma das formas de alcançar esse objetivo é gerando textos de modo a refletir uma personalidade-alvo de interesse. Por exemplo, uma pessoa extrovertida usaria palavras mais simples e seus textos teriam mais interjeições e traços de oralidade. Esse trabalho tem o objetivo de desenvolver um modelo de reescrita sentencial para o português brasileiro com base em traços de personalidade de um locutor-alvo. Para isso, foi coletado um córpus de textos e inventários de personalidade e, com base em uma análise preliminar desses dados, foram encontrados fortes indícios de correlação entre os fatores de personalidade e as características observadas dos textos em português brasileiro. Foram gerados três modelos de lexicalização, referentes à adjetivos, substantivos e verbos. Esses modelos de lexicalização, então, foram utilizados na proposta de um modelo de reescrita sentencial para selecionar as palavras mais adequadas à personalidade-alvo. Os resultados demonstram que o uso de personalidade permite que o texto gerado seja mais próximo do desempenho humano se comparado a um sistema de baseline que faz escolhas lexicais mais frequentes / Natural Language Generation Systems attempt to produce texts in an automated fashion. In systems of this kind, it is desired to produce texts realisticaly - or at least psychologically plausible - as a way to increase reader\'s engagement. One way to achieve this goal is generating texts in such a way to reflect a target personality profile. For example, an extroverted individual would use simpler words and its texts would have more interjections and orality traces. This work proposes the development of a Brazilian Portuguese personality-based sentence rewrite model. To this end, a corpus with text samples and personality inventories has been collected, and, based on a preliminary analysis, strong correlations between personality and text features have been found. Three lexicalization models were generated, related to adjectives, nouns and verbs. These models were then used by the sentence rewrite model to select the most appropriate word for the target personality. Results show that the usage of personality allows the generated text to be closer to human performance when compared to a baseline system that makes lexical choices based on frequency

Sistemas de Geração de Língua Natural tentam produzir textos de maneira automatizada. Em sistemas desse tipo, é desejável produzir textos de forma realista - ou psicologicamente plausível - como forma de aumentar o engajamento do leitor. Uma das formas de alcançar esse objetivo é gerando textos de modo a refletir uma personalidade-alvo de interesse. Por exemplo, uma pessoa extrovertida usaria palavras mais simples e seus textos teriam mais interjeições e traços de oralidade. Esse trabalho tem o objetivo de desenvolver um modelo de reescrita sentencial para o português brasileiro com base em traços de personalidade de um locutor-alvo. Para isso, foi coletado um córpus de textos e inventários de personalidade e, com base em uma análise preliminar desses dados, foram encontrados fortes indícios de correlação entre os fatores de personalidade e as características observadas dos textos em português brasileiro. Foram gerados três modelos de lexicalização, referentes à adjetivos, substantivos e verbos. Esses modelos de lexicalização, então, foram utilizados na proposta de um modelo de reescrita sentencial para selecionar as palavras mais adequadas à personalidade-alvo. Os resultados demonstram que o uso de personalidade permite que o texto gerado seja mais próximo do desempenho humano se comparado a um sistema de baseline que faz escolhas lexicais mais frequentes / Natural Language Generation Systems attempt to produce texts in an automated fashion. In systems of this kind, it is desired to produce texts realisticaly - or at least psychologically plausible - as a way to increase reader\'s engagement. One way to achieve this goal is generating texts in such a way to reflect a target personality profile. For example, an extroverted individual would use simpler words and its texts would have more interjections and orality traces. This work proposes the development of a Brazilian Portuguese personality-based sentence rewrite model. To this end, a corpus with text samples and personality inventories has been collected, and, based on a preliminary analysis, strong correlations between personality and text features have been found. Three lexicalization models were generated, related to adjectives, nouns and verbs. These models were then used by the sentence rewrite model to select the most appropriate word for the target personality. Results show that the usage of personality allows the generated text to be closer to human performance when compared to a baseline system that makes lexical choices based on frequency

<p>Denna studie syftar på att ta reda på hur anställningsbarheten ser ut i förhållande till personlighet och sökbeteende. Studien vänder sig till tidigare studenter på det Arbetsvetenskapliga programmet på Högskolan i Halmstad. Finns det någon personlighetsprofil som är mer gynnsam i arbetssökningsprocessen? Hur ser kraven ut för tjänster inom yrkesområdet samt finns det något samband mellan personlighet, anställningsbarhet och beteende i sökprocessen.</p><p>Genom att granska platsannonser sammanställdes vilka krav som krävs för tjänster inom yrkesområdet. En enkätundersökning skickades till personer som gått utbildningen. Även intervjuer gjordes med respondenter för att få ett djup i studien.</p><p>Resultatet visar bland annat att det är egenskaper inom området samvetsgrannhet och extroversion som mest efterfrågas i platsannonser inom yrkesområdet. Över hälften av respondenterna som idag har arbete inom yrkesområdet har fått arbete genom sitt sociala kontaktnät. I intervjuerna framkom att respondenterna upplevt att personlighet är en viktig faktor som arbetsgivare tittar på vid rekrytering. Studien visar även att de som är arbetslösa är mer proaktiva än övriga. Dessutom finns ett tydligt samband mellan kön, familjesituation och geografisk rörlighet.</p><p>Att vara en strategiker samt utarbeta ett stort och brett socialt nätverk har i denna studie visat sig viktigt på vägen mot drömmen om ett arbete, medan däremot skillnader inom gruppen verkar sakna betydelse.</p>

Denna studie syftar på att ta reda på hur anställningsbarheten ser ut i förhållande till personlighet och sökbeteende. Studien vänder sig till tidigare studenter på det Arbetsvetenskapliga programmet på Högskolan i Halmstad. Finns det någon personlighetsprofil som är mer gynnsam i arbetssökningsprocessen? Hur ser kraven ut för tjänster inom yrkesområdet samt finns det något samband mellan personlighet, anställningsbarhet och beteende i sökprocessen. Genom att granska platsannonser sammanställdes vilka krav som krävs för tjänster inom yrkesområdet. En enkätundersökning skickades till personer som gått utbildningen. Även intervjuer gjordes med respondenter för att få ett djup i studien. Resultatet visar bland annat att det är egenskaper inom området samvetsgrannhet och extroversion som mest efterfrågas i platsannonser inom yrkesområdet. Över hälften av respondenterna som idag har arbete inom yrkesområdet har fått arbete genom sitt sociala kontaktnät. I intervjuerna framkom att respondenterna upplevt att personlighet är en viktig faktor som arbetsgivare tittar på vid rekrytering. Studien visar även att de som är arbetslösa är mer proaktiva än övriga. Dessutom finns ett tydligt samband mellan kön, familjesituation och geografisk rörlighet. Att vara en strategiker samt utarbeta ett stort och brett socialt nätverk har i denna studie visat sig viktigt på vägen mot drömmen om ett arbete, medan däremot skillnader inom gruppen verkar sakna betydelse.

Bakgrund: Allt mer struktur införs i revisionsbranschen. Revisorer behöver i sitt arbete balansera strukturerade och bedömningsrelaterade arbetsuppgifter för att bibehålla en hög kvalitet i revisionen. Den enskilde revisorn inverkar på processen då personlighetsdrag har visat sig ha samband med vilka arbetsuppgifter som föredras.  Syfte: Syftet är att förklara hur revisorns personlighetsdrag påverkar preferens för struktur och bedömning. Teori: Traitteori med fördjupning inom Big Five, yrkesmässiga intressen, komfortteori och definitioner av struktur och bedömning. Metod: I studien används en deduktiv forskningsansats där hypotesprövning används för att pröva ovanstående teorier. Studien är kvantitativ och en enkätundersökning genomförs. Auktoriserade revisorer från Revisorsnämndens lista (2015) ingår i urvalet. Resultat och slutsats: Resultatet indikerar att revisorers personlighetsdrag förklarar preferens för struktur och bedömning. Studien presenterar ett positivt signifikant samband mellan öppna revisorer och bedömningsrelaterade arbetsuppgifter samt ett negativt samband med strukturerade arbetsuppgifter. Ett positivt signifikant samband existerar mellan samvetsgranna revisorer och strukturerade och bedömningsrelaterade arbetsuppgifter. Komfort visar sig i studien vara ett alternativt sätt att mäta preferens. Studiens bidrag: Studien bidrar med ett nytt perspektiv inom struktur- och bedömningsdilemmat. Studien ger även rekryterare inom revisionsbranschen en förståelse för personlighetens betydelse i revisorns arbete. / Background: More structure is being introduced in the auditing profession. Auditors need to balance structured and judgment-related tasks to maintain a high quality in the audit process. The individual auditor influences the process as personality traits have been shown to be related to the tasks which are preferred.  Aim: The purpose is to explain how the auditor's personality traits influence preference for structure and judgment. Theory: Trait theory with focus on Big Five, vocational interests, comfort theory and definitions of structure and judgment. Method: The study uses a deductive research approach where hypothesis testing is used to test the above listed theories. The study is quantitative and survey method is used. The sample consists of certified auditors from Revisorsnämnden (2015). Result and conclusion: The result indicates that the auditor's personality traits may explain preference for structure and judgment. The study presents a positive significant relationship between auditors that are open and judgment-related tasks, and a negative significant relationship with structured tasks. A positive significant relationship exists between auditors that are conscientious and structured and judgment-related tasks. The study shows that the term comfort is an alternative way to measure preference. Contribution: The study provides a new perspective in the structure and judgment dilemma. The study also gives recruiters within audit companies an understanding in how the personality affects the work of auditors.

Datum: 2018 – maj Syfte: Att skapa förståelse för sambandet mellan en ledares personlighet och dennes förmåga att hantera emotionella och uppgiftsorienterade konflikter i organisationer som präglas av mångfald. Utifrån Big Five-modellen ämnar studien besvara vilka av ledarens personlighetsfaktorer som har påverkan på det som sker i konflikter som uppstår i mångkulturella grupper.   Metod: Utifrån en kvalitativ forskningsansats har 10 stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförts för insamling av information. Det gemensamma för de medverkande är att de har lång erfarenhet av arbete i mångkulturella organisationer. En tematisk analys av empirin har genomförts och resultatet av det har sedan redovisats utifrån de identifierade ämnena. Resultat &amp; slutsats: Studien visar sambandet mellan ledarens personlighet och det som sker i konflikter som uppstår i mångkulturella grupper. Vidare framkommer det att specifika personlighetsfaktorer har en betydande påverkan på både emotionella och uppgiftsorienterade konflikter samt att det finns faktorer som endast relaterar till respektive konflikttyp.  Examensarbetets bidrag: Arbetet ger en djupare förståelse för det förhållande som råder mellan ledarskap, mångfald och konflikter. Ur ett vetenskapligt perspektiv kan arbetet därför användas som språngbräda för forskning inom ledarskap, mångfald och konflikthantering och i praktiken tillhandhåller det mer kunskap om vad som krävs av en ledare och vad det innebär att hantera en mångkulturell grupp.     Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Studien visar att det finns specifika personlighetsdrag hos ledaren som påverkar konflikter. Vidare forskning som fokuserar på att bekräfta vilka av dessa som är bättre respektive sämre lämpade för hantering av olika typer av konflikter skulle därför vara värdefullt. / Date: 2018 – May Aim: The purpose of this study is to generate understanding for the correlation between the personality of a manager and the ability to manage relationship conflicts and task oriented conflicts in multicultural organizations. With the Big Five Model as a starting point the intention is to answer which of the manager personality factors that can have an influence on conflicts that arises in multi- cultural environments.  Method: From a qualitative research approach the information is gathered through 10 semi structured interviews. All of the respondents in the study have a long experience of working in multicultural organizations. The analysis has been conducted by identifying specific topics and the result of that is then presented accordingly.   Result &amp; Conclusions: The study shows the correlation between manager personality and the events occurring in conflicts related to diversity. Also shown is that there are specific personality factors that has a significant impact on both relationship- and task oriented conflicts as well as there are factors that only relates to each of these conflict types.    Contribution of the thesis: The essay brings a deeper understanding to the relationship that exists between management, diversity and conflicts. From scientific point of view it can therefore be used as a platform for research within management, diversity and conflict management. From an organizational perspective it provides more knowledge regarding what the requirements are when managing multicultural teams and what to expect while doing so. Suggestions for future research: The study shows that specific manager characteristics have impact on conflicts. Therefore it would be valuable to further verify which of these that is better suited to handle different types of conflicts.

Title: Personality traits of business students, are they like everybody else? A study of The Big Five- theory. Level: Final assignment for Bachelor Degrees in Business Administration Author: Linn Haglund and Josefine Schöön Supervisor: Jonas KågströmDate: 2018 – MayAim: The purpose of this study is to analyze students’ at specialized sales programs, at an academic level, personality traits in relation to active, high-performing, professionals using The Big Five. Method: We chose to implement a quantitative investigation based on a deductive approach. The empirical material was obtained by a survey that was distributed to 445 real estate students at University of Luleå, University of Malmö and College of Gävle. The recieved data was then analyzed via the analytic and statistical program SPSS where we chose to conduct a descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and cluster analysis. Result &amp; Conclusion: The results shows that there is a specific profile for real estate students who are characterized by high values of the personalitytraits openness, conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeablesness along with lower value of neuroticism. This means that those who study to become a real estate agent are more open, conscientious, outward and compassionate as well as less anxious and insecure in general in comparison with other people. The results also shows that the majority of the real estate students have similar personality types as high-performing real estate agents. Contribution of the thesis: This essay contributes to an increased understanding of how personality analyzes can bring prospective students into the right industry. The result is also valuable to trainers in real estate brokerage and real estate brokers, as it can provide a better insight into the recruitment of prospective real estate agents. The study also confirms previous research that shows that high values of conscientiousness and targeted work together with low values of neuroticism provide good conditions in the sales sector, which is a contribution to business research. Suggestions for future research: Since this study focuses on real estate students and their personalities, it would be interesting to study other programs to see if real estate students differ in comparison with other students, and if they do in which personality traits. It would also be interesting to continue comparing real estate student’s personality profiles with real estate brokers, both those with long experience and those who are newly graduated. Keywords: “The Big Five”, personality, sales, real estate brokers, real estate agents

Syftet med denna studie var att kartlägga skillnader mellan kvinnor och mäns politiskaställningstagande. Samt att undersöka om det skiljer sig i personlighetsdragen Openness ochConscientiouness, (the Big Five) mellan personer som studerar inom teknik eller humaniora. Även om personlighetsfaktorerna Openness och Conscientiousness har effekt på politiskidentifiering. Studien utgår från en kvantitativ metod vars data inhämtades i enenkätundersökning. Totalt deltog 110 personer vars deltagande efterfrågades inom olika utbildning och yrkesgrupper inom humanism och teknik på den sociala plattformen Facebook. Datan bearbetades i statistikprogrammet Jamovi, med två separata Anova och två chi2-test. Resultatet visade att det skiljer sig i politiskt ställningstagande män och kvinnor åt. Männen identifierade sig mer högerorienterat i jämförelse med kvinnorna, där majoriteten identifieradesig längre åt vänster. I studiens slutsatser kunde vi även finna att humaniora studenter definierarsig själva som mer åt vänster jämfört med teknikstudenter. Utifrån studiens resultat blev det även möjligt att dra slutsatsen att kvinnor i majoritet tycks dominera den humanistiskautbildningen, samt män med mer dominans mot det tekniska. Det finns tendenser att personligaegenskaper från the Big Five, som Openness och Conscientiousness, bidrar till individensyrkesval och politiska identifiering. Ett större urval hade kunnat kartlägga deltagarnaspersonlighetsskillnader och möjliggjort ett större sambandsdragande, mellan politiskidentifikation och deras personlighetsdrag. Nycklelord: the Big Five, (femfaktorsmodellen), politisk tillhörighet, humonoria, teknik, psykologi. / This study examines the differences between men and women’s political standpoint aiming todefine the possible personality distinctness between students of humanities and students of natural science (according to the big five). The study focused on analyzing the possibility of differences in openness and conscientiousness, between students of humanities and natural-sciences, but also if the level of conscientiousness and openness contributes to the individual politicial standpoint. The study proceeds from a quantitative method in which substances were gathered by survey. A total of 110 persons participated whose participation was gathered fromdifferent educational and occupation groups in humaniora and natural sciences on the socialplatform Facebook. The data was later arranged and adapted in the analysis program Jamovi.The chosen method was to analyze the data in Anova analysis and two separate chi-square tests.mOur study revealed a difference between the political standpoint between women and men. The men who participated indicated a higher right-wing dominated political standpoint, compared to women who defined themselves as more left-wing orientated. It was also possible to drawthe conclusion that students in humaniora defined themselves as less right-wing dominated compared to students in natural sciences. After operating the study and the data, this material made it possible to draw the conclusion that women tend to dominate humanistic education. According to the study, men seem to be the more common gender in education of natural-sciences. There are trends suggesting that personal traits such as openness and conscientiousness contribute to the individual occupation choice and political standpoint. If thestudy had included a bigger sample, this could have made it possible to draw a more firmconclusion between political standpoint and the individuals’ personal capacities. Key words: the Big Five, political identification, humaniora, natural sciences, psychology.