<p>Påståendet om att ju längre ett förhållande fortgår, desto bättre lär individerna i relationen känna varandra, är ett logiskt antagande. Forskning visar att vissa personlighetsegenskaper är mer önskvärda än andra hos en potentiell partner och att dessa egenskaper och attribut skiljer sig beroende på om ett par känt varandra lång eller kort tid. En enkätstudie genomfördes bland trettiotre par. Deltagarna uppmanades att skatta självbild, jagideal, partnerbild samt partnerideal genom att rangordna 15 personlighetsegenskaper. Resultatet visade att individer tenderar att känna sin partner sämre i förhållanden som varat i fem till nio år i jämförelse med par som varit tillsammans kortare eller längre. Egenskaperna ärlig, pålitlig och omtänksam tenderar att vara de tre viktigaste personlighetsegenskaperna beträffande självbilder och ideal i relationer.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Montana, 2006. / Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed Mar. 29, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-125).

Påståendet om att ju längre ett förhållande fortgår, desto bättre lär individerna i relationen känna varandra, är ett logiskt antagande. Forskning visar att vissa personlighetsegenskaper är mer önskvärda än andra hos en potentiell partner och att dessa egenskaper och attribut skiljer sig beroende på om ett par känt varandra lång eller kort tid. En enkätstudie genomfördes bland trettiotre par. Deltagarna uppmanades att skatta självbild, jagideal, partnerbild samt partnerideal genom att rangordna 15 personlighetsegenskaper. Resultatet visade att individer tenderar att känna sin partner sämre i förhållanden som varat i fem till nio år i jämförelse med par som varit tillsammans kortare eller längre. Egenskaperna ärlig, pålitlig och omtänksam tenderar att vara de tre viktigaste personlighetsegenskaperna beträffande självbilder och ideal i relationer.

Det har ofta antagits att en anställd är lycklig därför att han eller hon är framgångsrik. Det finns dock studier som stödjer den alternativa hypotesen, nämligen att lycka är en anledning till varför vissa anställda är mer framgångsrika än andra. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka huruvida lyckliga anställda är mer produktiva och framgångsrika än mindre lyckliga anställda. Det genom att undersöka om personligt disponerad positiv affekt (TPA) kan predicera arbetsprestationer. Deltagarna var 98 anställda, varav 60 kvinnor, som rekryterats från sex organisationer. Resultaten gav stöd åt undersökningens samtliga hypoteser och kan därmed indikera att anställda med högre TPA presterar bättre, har högre lön och mer socialt stöd från arbetskamrater och chefer. Detta betyder att TPA kan leda till gynnsamma resultat för såväl den anställda som för organisationen och att lyckliga anställda kan antas vara mer produktiva och framgångsrika än sina mindre lyckliga arbetskamrater.

This research aims to probe into the influence of personalities and internship work condition toward technical and vocational students¡¦ willingness into tourism industry through questionnaires toward students who major in tourism so as to find out the following purposes: 1. The relations between demographic variations and technical and vocational students¡¦ willingness into tourism industry. 2. The relations between personalities and technical and vocational students¡¦ willingness into tourism industry. 3. The relations between work conditions (wage, working hours and working environment) and technical and vocational students¡¦ willingness into tourism industry. 4. The relations between interference of socialization experience and leadership and technical and vocational students¡¦ willingness into tourism industry. This research primarily working on questionnaire survey with eventually 79.56% valid responding rate by using spss 10.0 to analyze with mean, Cronbach¡¦ £\, descriptive statistics, correlation and multi-regression to verify assumptions. 1. Descriptive statistical analysis: (1) Work conditions: Regarding to students¡¦ response, the highest is work environment and the lowest is compensation. (2) Personality Trait: Regarding to students¡¦ response, the highest is Agreeableness and the lowest is Neuroticism. (3) Socialization: Regarding to students¡¦ response, the highest is work command and the lowest is goal and values. (4) Leadership: Students¡¦ response toward leadership tends to moderate (5) Willingness into tourism industry: Students¡¦ response toward leadership tends to moderate. 2.Correlation analysis¡G (1) Correlation analysis between demographic variations and willingness into tourism industry. 1. There¡¦s no correlation between gender and willingness into tourism industry 2. Positive correlation between major and willingness into tourism industry 3. Positive correlation between Dining Dept., Room Dept. and willingness into tourism industry. 4. Positive correlation between part-time experience and willingness into tourism Industry. (2) Correlation analysis between personality traits and willingness into tourism industry. 1. There¡¦s no correlation between personality trait of Openness and willingness into tourism industry 2. Positive correlation between personality trait of Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness and willingness into tourism industry 3. Negative correlation between personality trait of Neuroticism and willingness into tourism industry (3) Positive correlation between work conditions and willingness into tourism Industry. (4) Positive correlation between socialization and willingness into tourism industry. (5) Positive correlation between leadership and willingness into tourism industry. 3.Multi-regression analysis¡G (1)The interference of socialization between personality trait and willingness into tourism industry. Students with personality trait of Extraversion and Agreeableness could be reinforced willingness into tourism industry by socialization. (2)The interference of leadership between personality trait and willingness into tourism industry. Students with personality trait of Openness, Extraversion and neuroticism could be reinforced willingness into tourism industry by good interaction with supervisors. (3)There¡¦s no interference of socialization between work conditions and willingness into tourism industry. (4)There¡¦s no interference of leadership between work conditions and willingness into tourism industry.

Based on the vocational personality trait, this study aims to explore the relationship between the vocational preference inventory conducted by new recruitment of T Bank and their individual performance, as well as the influences of professional training hours on different level of works. Furthermore, this study will search for the correlation between controlling variables and population variables. This study collects relevant information from database established at T Bank beginning from its establishment to the end of 2003, which are categorized as the following files: ¡§vocational preference inventory¡¨, ¡§educational training¡¨, ¡§employees¡¦ performance¡¨ and employees¡¦ basic information¡¨, then executes the statistic analysis for a total of 926 effective samples through one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis. This study also uses the results of the vocational preference inventory, conducted by the T Bank new recruitment, as the independent variables, individual performance as dependable variables and the professional training hours, work classification as moderating variables, searching for the correlation and influence between them. Furthermore, this study searches for the moderating effects between each item of variables by using the professional training hours and work classifications as moderating variable. This study reveal that the variables such as ¡§gender¡¨, ¡§age¡¨, ¡§education¡¨ and ¡§work period¡¨ appear obvious discrepancy respectively in individual performance, while there is no obvious difference in the devotional degree of an organization. Then, there is an obvious correlation in some parts of professional personality trait, revealing a fact that the employees should be assigned for his or her work according to the results of the vocational preference inventory. In the ¡§work classification¡¨ to ¡§vocational personality trait¡¨, ¡§leadership¡¨ and ¡§challenge¡¨ show the moderating effects on ¡§indivisual performance¡¨. Finally, the study indicates that the ¡§professional training hours¡¨ has no moderating effects on the ¡§professional personality trait¡¨ and ¡§individual performance¡¨ and it also presents that the ¡§independence¡¨ in the ¡§professional personality trait¡¨ is the key factor for each employee¡¦s independent learning. The results of study also reveal that the vocational preference inventory and the professional training hours play in employees training. There are few studies for the vocational preference inventory, in particular its substantial experiment; therefore, this study aims to enhance and supplement the study for this part. On the other hand, this study also approves that the professional training shall be designed on a basis of short-term course in order to meet the actual requirements and efficiently carry out one special mission.

Abstract The theories of leadership seldom explain the difference of male leaders and female leaders. Instead of the assumption that the leaders¡¦ leading traits and leading styles of two sexes are the same, most studies work from the ¡§man¡¨ point of view. Traditionally, the principles and theories of leadership in most cases come from the researches written by male leaders. Many female leaders¡¦ leadership styles are ignored or forgotten. (Sally Helgsen, 1995) General thoughts indicated that there are some differences between male and female, but these differences are seldom used to explain leadership. The master stream of leadership theories still infers female¡¦s leadership by male traits. This research considers that once woman accept the inequality is unfair, then they can create the possibility in working field. As the saying of Peter Senge goes ¡§Remove the unwanted doesn¡¦t mean you can get what you want¡¨. This research wants to draw a picture of real female leaders by finding ¡§What You Want¡¨, focusing on female leaders¡¦ successful leadership traits and leadership styles, then to discuss how they overcome ¡§the Unwanted¡¨. This research adopted case study and in-depth interview methods. After interviewing six female leaders, this research has conclusions listed below: 1. Female leader¡¦s traits: Female leaders not only lead people to achieve the goal of organizations, but also want to make them improve themselves. The female leaders emphasize ex-birth learning even more than pro-birth gift. It is an everlasting improving process. The female leaders who have strong motivation know they should try hard to hold on every chance, but the others must wait the inspiration by environment or other people. 2. Female leaders¡¦ leadership style: Female leaders adapt Y theory to make the attributed assumption of employees, but they would transfer to X theory because of changes of environment and so on. They mainly use democratic leadership style and supply with authoritative and laissez faire styles. They try to achieve the balance of employee-oriented and work-oriented. This research discovered that female leaders usually adapt the neutral characteristics or integrate the characteristics of two sexes in leading process. 3. Female leaders and sex issue: This research shows the notion of female leaders that leaders contain those of two sexes, but they should not be separated into two nouns: male leaders and female leaders. This research discovered that all female leaders never benefit from being a female. The dilemmas they face are: challenging the stereotype and the conflict of family and job roles. The ways they treat to male and female employees have no significant differences, and they respect their differences. When it comes to promotion, they never think about the issue of sex. 4. The working philosophy of female leaders: The most important three factors of their job philosophies are interests, mission and self-actualization. Surprisingly, the working hours of female leaders in case study are all very long. Five out of six leaders work for twelve to fifteen hours or even more a day.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2009. / Principal faculty advisor: Mary Dozier, Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72]-79). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-81).