A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Conscientiousness in the Prediction of Job Performance Examining the Intercorrelations and the Incremental Validity of Narrow Traits

Researchers of broad and narrow traits have debated whether narrow traits are important to consider in the prediction of job performance. Because personality-performance relationship meta-analyses have focused almost exclusively on the Big Five, the predictive power of narrow traits has not been ade...

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Published inJournal of applied psychology Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 40 - 57
Main Authors Dudley, Nicole M, Orvis, Karin A, Lebiecki, Justin E, Cortina, José M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Psychological Association 01.01.2006
Subjects
Adolescent
Attitude
Behavioural psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Conscientiousness
Data analysis
Developmental psychology
Employment
Forecasting
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Incremental Validity
Job Performance
Meta-analysis
Occupations
Personality
Personality tests
Prediction
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Regression analysis
Reproducibility of Results
Research methods
Social Responsibility
Statistical analysis
Statistical Validity
Surveys and Questionnaires
meta-analysis
job performance
personality
conscientiousness
Social environment
Human
Occupational environment
Prediction
Psychometrics
Personality
Performance
Metaanalysis
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Summary:Researchers of broad and narrow traits have debated whether narrow traits are important to consider in the prediction of job performance. Because personality-performance relationship meta-analyses have focused almost exclusively on the Big Five, the predictive power of narrow traits has not been adequately examined. In this study, the authors address this question by meta-analytically examining the degree to which the narrow traits of conscientiousness predict above and beyond global conscientiousness. Results suggest that narrow traits do incrementally predict performance above and beyond global conscientiousness, yet the degree to which they contribute depends on the particular performance criterion and occupation in question. Overall, the results of this study suggest that there are benefits to considering the narrow traits of conscientiousness in the prediction of performance.
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ISSN:0021-9010
1939-1854
DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.91.1.40