This cross-sectional study examined the associations among perceived parental behavior and personality on work behaviors of undergraduate students from a large Southeastern university. Past research suggests that children who perceive their parents to be workaholics are more likely to exhibit workaholic behavior themselves (Chamberlin & Zhang, 2009). Moreover, personality factors including conscientiousness and neuroticism, have been categorized as antecedents of workaholic behavior in previous studies (Andreassen, Hetland, & Pallesen, 2010; Aziz & Tronzo, 2011; Burke, Matthiesen, & Pallesen, 2006). Students (N = 209) completed questionnaires assessing Big Five personality factors, dispositional optimism, and perceptions of parental work drive, parental work involvement, and parental work enjoyment. Hypotheses regarding parental work behaviors and their ability to predict undergraduate student work behavior were not supported. Conscientiousness and extraversion were significant predictors of work drive, involvement and enjoyment. Neuroticism was also significant in predicting work drive among students included in the sample. Findings and recommendations for future study are discussed.

Studien undersökte hur de tre demografiska variablerna kön, ålder och civilstatus samt de fem grundläggande personlighetsdimensionerna extraversion, vänlighet, samvetsgrannhet, neuroticism och öppenhet  relaterar till spel om pengar samt att börja spela i tidig ålder. Detta gjordes utifrån fem frågeställningar. 163 personer besvarade en enkät. Materialet undersöktes genom att utföra Pearson korrelationskofficienter samt t-test. Slutsatserna som drogs i studien var att män spelar mer samt börjar spela tidigare än kvinnor. Personligheten har ej någon påverkan på spel om pengar. Däremot fungerar samvetsgrannhet som en skyddsfaktor mot att börja spela om pengar i tidig ålder. Det noterades även att spel om pengar i tidig ålder är en riskfaktor för att utveckla ett problematiskt spelande. Studien påvisade en skillnad i personlighetsdimensionerna, där kvinnor har högre grad av neuroticism än män.  Slutligen noterades det att 7% av respondenterna i studien har ett problematiska spelande, vilket är i linje med tidigare forskning.

As rápidas transformações e a competitividade do mercado de trabalho têm exigido das organizações e das pessoas um constante processo de aperfeiçoamento. Assim, uma prática comum nas organizações é avaliar as lacunas nas competências dos funcionários e desenvolvê-las por meio de ações de Treinamento, Desenvolvimento e Educação (TD&E) sistemáticas e estruturadas. Todavia, se a aprendizagem ocorre ou não, depende de características individuais e também contextuais. Estudos têm mostrado que o reconhecimento dos aspectos individuais neste processo contribui para desenvolvimento profissional bem-sucedido dos funcionários, bem como para os resultados de treinamentos esperados pela organização. Nesta perspectiva, a presente pesquisa pretende contribuir com a área de avaliação de sistemas instrucionais ao investigar as relações entre as variáveis estratégias de aprendizagem e traços de personalidade - segundo a teoria dos Cinco Grandes Fatores (Big Five) - em treinamentos corporativos presenciais. A coleta de dados foi realizada numa população composta por 115 funcionários de uma empresa do segmento de Telecomunicações, situada em Minas Gerais, que participou de um treinamento intitulado Gestão à Vista. Foram utilizados, em formato online, o inventário de personalidade Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness Personality Inventary Revised (NEO-FFI-R) e a Escala de Estratégias de Aprendizagem. A taxa de retorno obtida se apresenta como um diferencial entre os estudos da área, com participação de 74,78% da população estudada. Foram realizadas análises estatísticas descritivas das variáveis e Testes de Coeficiente de Correlação de Pearson. Os resultados evidenciaram que as estratégias mais utilizadas pela amostra foram as Autorregulatórias e que o traço de personalidade mais presente foi o da Conscienciosidade. As correlações mostraram que as estratégias de aprendizagem intituladas Elaboração e Aplicação Prática e Controle da Motivação se relacionam positivamente com os traços da personalidade Extroversão, Abertura, Amabilidade e Conscienciosidade, e negativamente com o Neuroticismo. Já as Estratégias Cognitivas e Busca de Ajuda mostraram relação positiva apenas com a Amabilidade, enquanto Controle da Emoção se relacionou negativamente com o Neuroticismo. Esta pesquisa oferece contribuições para o subsistema de avaliação na medida em que suscita a possibilidade da inserção da variável traços de personalidade, até então não utilizada em pesquisas nacionais, mas que tem sido correlata estável, robusta, previsível e determinante de outras variáveis envolvidas no processo de TD&E / The rapid changes and the competitiveness of the labor market have demanded the organizations and individuals a constant process of improvement. Thus, a common practice in organizations is to evaluate the gaps in employee competencies and to develop them through systematic and structured Training, Development and Education (TD&E) actions. However, whether learning occurs or not depends on individual and contextual characteristics. Studies have shown that recognition of individual aspects in this process contributes to the successful professional development of employees as well as to the results of training expected by the organization. In this perspective, the present research intends to contribute with the area of instructional evaluation systems when investigating the relations between the variables learning strategies and personality traits - according to the theory of the Big Five - in face-to-face corporate training. Data collection was carried out in a population of 115 employees of a telecommunications company located in Minas Gerais, Brazil, which participated in a training titled \"Gestão à Vista\". Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness Personality Inventary Revised (NEO-FFI-R) and the Learning Strategies Scale were used in online format. The rate of return obtained is a differential among the studies of the area, with participation of 74.78% of the studied population. Descriptive statistical analyzes of the variables and Pearson Correlation Coefficient Tests were performed. The results evidenced that the strategies most used by the sample were the self-regulatory ones and that the most present personality trait was the Conscientiousness. The correlations show that the learning strategies entitled Practical Elaboration and Application and Motivation Control are positively related to personality traits Extroversion, Openness, Kindness and Conscientiousness, and negatively with Neuroticism. Already the Cognitive Strategies and Search for Help showed a positive relationship only with Kindness, while Emotion Control was negatively related to Neuroticism. This research offers contributions to the evaluation subsystem insofar as it raises the possibility of the insertion of variable personality traits, hitherto unused in national surveys, but which has been stable, robust, predictable and determinant correlation of other variables involved in the process of TD&E

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:21:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Simon Santana Diniz.pdf: 373373 bytes, checksum: 41414d5e44afc3d117780dd64c4687b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-01-30 / The aim of this study is demonstrate the influence of personality traits over coping strategies in adolescents. In this way, a study with 102 pupils from a municipal school in Goiânia (GO) aged from 11 to 15 years old was carried out. Two different instruments were used to do the study, Coping Response Inventory (Moos, 1993) and the Bateria Fatorial de Personalidade (Nunes et al., preliminary version). Data showed that girls use more coping strategies than boys, the youngest adolescents use more avoidance coping responses and the oldest use more approach coping responses. The correlation obtained among the variables demonstrated that the appreciation of the problem exercises significant influence in the choice of strategies. / O objetivo deste estudo é demonstrar a influência de traços de personalidade no uso de estratégias de coping em populações de adolescentes. Participaram desta pesquisa 102 jovens com idade entre 11 e 15 anos, utilizando o Coping Response Inventory (Moos, 1993) e a Bateria Fatorial de Personalidade (Nunes et al.; versão preliminar). Os dados obtidos demonstraram que meninas utilizam mais as estratégias de coping do que meninos, os adolescentes mais jovens utilizam mais coping de evitação e os mais velhos, o coping de aproximação. A correlação obtida entre as variáveis demonstrou que a apreciação do problema exerce influência significativa na escolha de estratégias.

Submitted by Cristiane Chim (cristiane.chim@ucpel.edu.br) on 2017-02-14T12:33:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JacianaAraujo.pdf: 2059838 bytes, checksum: 74894604be13ceb9ccf8d4d4db402c47 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-14T12:33:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JacianaAraujo.pdf: 2059838 bytes, checksum: 74894604be13ceb9ccf8d4d4db402c47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-29 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq# / #-2555911436985713659# / #600 / Personality is one of the most important constructs in Psychology and has been receiving increasingly more space among research in this area. The increasing interest regarding the behavioral bases that sustain psychopathological conditions in general and the arrival of the spectral vision of personality disorders has awarded more visibility and relevance to studies with personality traits. Studying the personality traits patterns of the Big Five theory in depressed patients with the intent of finding differential characteristics in relation to Bipolar Affective Disorder and the existence or not of Borderline Personality Disorder comorbidity were the objectives of this study. The first study counted with the presence of 245 patients in current depressive episode, and the second one counted with 149 patients in the same condition. In the first study, sociodemographic, personality traits (NEO-FFI) and mood as well as anxiety disorders (MINI-Plus) data were collected. The groups with Major Depressive Disorder (n= 192) and Bipolar Affective Disorder (n= 62) were compared concerning these characteristics by means of bivariate and multivariate analyses. In the second study, information about Personality Disorders (MCMI-III) was added and comparisons were done as previously described, but between the groups with (n= 40) and without (n= 109) Borderline Personality Disorder comorbidity. The results of the first study pointed to a similar pattern in personality traits distribution between individuals with Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Affective Disorder during depressive episode. However, there was significant difference regarding the factor of Agreeableness (p= 0.005, OR= 0.94, IC 95%= 0.90 to 0.98), with higher levels among those with unipolar disorder. In the second study, presence of Borderline Personality Disorder was associated with lower indices of the Conscientiousness factor (p= 0.026, OR= 0.55, IC 95%= 0.33 to 0.93); 12 higher prevalence of suicide risk (p= 0.017, OR= 2.15, IC 95%= 1.14 to 4.05); comorbidity with Cluster A personality disorders (p= 0.010, RC= 2.61, IC 95%= 1.25 to 5.42) as well as with Cluster C ones (p= 0.045, RC= 1.03, IC 95%= 1.00 to 1.07). Data from both studies point that assessing personality traits can be useful, both for differentiation in cases where there is doubt between bipolar and unipolar disorders, as well as for aiding in identifying the presence of Borderline Personality Disorder comorbidity during depressive episodes. / A personalidade é um dos construtos mais importantes da Psicologia e tem tido cada vez mais espaço entre as pesquisas da área. O crescente interesse a respeito das bases comportamentais que sustentam os quadros psicopatológicos em geral e o advento da visão espectral dos transtornos da personalidade têm conferido maior visibilidade e relevância aos estudos acerca dos traços de personalidade. Os objetivos desta pesquisa foram centrados na investigação dos traços da teoria Big Five em pacientes deprimidos, pretendendo apontar características diferenciais entre casos de Transtorno Depressivo Maior e Transtorno de Humor Bipolar (no primeiro trabalho) e entre casos com e sem comorbidade entre Transtorno Depressivo Maior e Transtorno da Personalidade Borderline (no segundo trabalho). Os tamanhos amostrais diferiram em função dos objetivos dos estudos. No primeiro trabalho, contou-se com a participação de 245 pacientes em episódio depressivo atual, e no segundo, com 149 pacientes na mesma condição. No primeiro estudo foram coletadas informações, sobre as condições sociodemográficas; sobre os traços de personalidade (NEO-FFI) e sobre transtornos de humor e ansiedade (MINI-Plus). O grupo com Transtorno Depressivo Maior (n= 183) e o grupo com Transtorno de Humor Bipolar (n= 62) foram comparados em função dessas características por meio de análises bivariadas e multivariadas. No segundo estudo foram acrescidas as informações sobre Transtornos da Personalidade (MCMI-III), sendo que as comparações foram feitas como descritas anteriormente, porém, entre os grupos com (n= 40) e sem (n= 109) a comorbidade com Transtorno da Personalidade Borderline. Os resultados do primeiro estudo apontaram um padrão semelhante na distribuição dos traços de personalidade entre os indivíduos com Transtorno Depressivo Maior e Transtorno de Humor Bipolar durante episódio depressivo; contudo, foi 10 encontrada diferença significativa em relação ao fator Amabilidade (p= 0.005, RC= 0.94, IC 95%= 0.90 a 0.98), com níveis mais altos entre os indivíduos com transtorno unipolar. No segundo estudo, a presença do Transtorno da Personalidade Borderline esteve associada a menores índices do fator Conscienciosidade (p= 0.026, RC= 0.55, IC 95%= 0.33 a 0.93); maior prevalência de risco de suicídio (p= 0.017, RC= 2.15, IC 95%= 1.14 a 4.05); comorbidade com os transtornos da personalidade do Cluster A (p= 0.010, RC= 2.61, IC 95%= 1.25 a 5.42) e do Cluster C (p= 0.045, RC= 1.03, IC 95%= 1.00 a 1.07). Os dados de ambos os estudos apontaram que a avaliação dos traços de personalidade pode ser útil, do ponto de vista clínico, tanto para diferenciar casos em que há dúvida diagnóstica, como identificar a presença de comorbidades que podem comprometer diagnóstico e tratamento, caso sejam negligenciadas.

In recent years, energy efficiency in the built environment has been attracting considerable interest to mitigate energy consumption. A number of scientific studies indicate that rising air pollution, decreasing biodiversity, ocean acidification and other adverse effects on humans and the environment in recent decades are due to greenhouse gas emissions, and a substantial share of the emissions can be attributed to energy usage in residential buildings. Investments in energy-efficient technologies have been made to alleviate such human induced causes contributing to the emissions, but they are still far from widespread, calling for a thorough understanding of individuals' decision-making processes to promote further adoption of energy efficiency investments. Although personality has been widely recognised as an explanatory factor of behaviour, a rigorous discussion of it in the context of energy efficiency investments is missing. As such, to understand the role of personality traits in making high-cost energy efficiency investments in residential buildings, this research applies a multidisciplinary approach to derive theoretical models that are evaluated in subsequent empirical investigations using quantitative methods and data from the UK and Germany. The findings suggest three ways through which personality can influence energy efficiency investments. The first is an indirect impact of personality traits through risk preferences, in which the significance of the personality effects depends on the financial subsidy context. The second is an indirect effect of personality traits through environmental concern. The third way suggests an impact of personality traits through their importance for individuals' capability and willingness to consider peer behaviour.

Research has shown that more than 45% of American companies are opting to integrate personality tests in their recruitment processes. Given this surge in personality testing, this thesis examines whether personality testing is a valid predictor of job-fit and performance in the context of personnel selection. A large proportion of this paper is focused upon the Big-Five factor model, its limitations, and derivative tests of the model. The impact of technology upon personality testing is also discussed as an emerging field. By tracing and examining the history of personality testing to current day, I have found that personality tests are best administered when they provide incremental validity over other tools and are matched to specific job-criteria.

In 2009 there were 3.28 million non-fatal occupational injuries and illnesses (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010). Of these injuries and illnesses, 965,000 resulted in lost days from work. In addition there were 4,340 workplace fatalities. Given the number of occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, and the associated direct and indirect costs, organizations have sought to improve safety at work. Safety climate and safety motivation are two variables hypothesized to affect safety behaviors and safety outcomes. Safety climate refers to the shared perceptions of workgroup members, of the organizations' commitment to safety as evidenced by heir immediate supervisors' pattern of implementing safety policies and procedures (Zohar, 2003). Therefore, the workgroup supervisor plays an major role in the development of safety climate. Social exchange theory and previous studies of leadership styles and safety suggest that supervisors who convey concern for subordinates' well-being increase workers' motivation to reciprocate by increasing their safe behaviors at work. However, no research to date has examined the relationship between supervisors' personality and workers perceptions of safety climate, or the effect of Big Five trait-level variables on workers safety motivation. In this study I hypothesize that supervisors' proactive personality and three Big Five traits will be positively related to workers' safety climate perceptions. In addition, I hypothesize that four Big Five traits in workers will be positively related to workers safety motivation. Finally, I hypothesize that group-level safety climate will be significantly related to individual-level safety motivation after controlling for workers' personality. Participants in this study were maintenance and construction workers from a municipal city bureau, in 28 workgroups, totaling 146 workers and 28 supervisors. Workgroup sizes vary but averaged 6.21 members, including the supervisor. The data were collected in small groups (paper-and-pencil) and electronically (on-line); workers and supervisors answered questionnaire items on personality variables, safety climate, safety motivation, safety behaviors, and safety outcomes. In addition, archival data on safety outcomes were collected. The data were analyzed using a combination of multiple regression, multi-level modeling, and path analysis to test hypotheses and answer research questions. Both proactive personality and Big Five traits in supervisors accounted for incremental variance in aggregated workgroup safety climate over controls. In addition, workgroup safety climate and individual workers' cautiousness were significant predictors of workgroup safety motivation in a hierarchical linear model. At the individual level of the model, only the traits of cautiousness and morality were significant predictors of individual safety motivation. Tests of the Neal and Griffin (2004) model showed that safety motivation partially mediated the relationship between individual safety climate and safety participation behaviors. In addition, safety motivation fully mediated the relationships between morality and both safety compliance and safety participation behaviors. Finally, safety motivation partially mediated the relationship between cautiousness and both safety compliance and safety participation behaviors. The results suggest that supervisor personality can have an effect on the on workgroup safety climate perceptions. In addition, this study provided evidence that Big Five traits are useful predictors of the antecedents of accidents and injuries. Suggestions for training managers and future research are also discussed.

While the majority of studies appeared to focus on health service workers and job satisfaction, there was a substantial lack of literature that explored the relationship of personality traits and burnout specific to behavioral health professionals. Research has indicated that behavioral health professional burnout is a mediating factor in early job exodus primarily due to highly interactive work with people. The purpose of this study was to consider the relationship between behavioral health professional burnout, as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory for Health and Human Service workers, and the big five personality traits, as measured by the NEO Five Factor Inventory. This multiple regression study evaluated 305 behavioral health professionals who were currently licensed and practicing in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and Ohio. Results of the study yielded a significant correlation between behavioral health professional burnout and personality traits. The more extraverted, open, agreeable, and conscientious behavioral health professionals are, the less likely they are to experience burnout. The more narcissistic behavioral health professionals are, the more likely they are to experience burnout. In addition, age significantly correlated to behavioral health professional burnout. As age increased, burnout potential decreased. The implications for social change include potential use at the organizational level to implement policy changes, such as regular or preburnout screenings, in order to prevent early exodus from the behavioral health field and increase positive patient outcomes.

The relationship between mean team Agreeableness and team performance has not been shown definitively. The present study was performed looking at archival data from a study that assessed team performance from 62 two person teams using the DDD and involving two types of training and two types of information probes during the computer task. In addition, each of the participants took a personality test based on the IPIP with an emphasis on Agreeableness and its 6 facets. Using HLM analysis, it was determined that Agreeableness does not have a significant effect on team performance for a problem solving tasks (delta chi square 2.04, p=n.s.), however it did significantly effect how an individual performed (delta chi square=18.06, p=.001) on the problem solving task. Intelligence had a significant effect on team performance (delta chi square=569.08, p=.001) and this may have washed out any personality effects. In addition, a linear regression indicated than none of the six facets of Agreeableness had a significant effect on team performance on a problem solving task.