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

• Published in: Journal 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
• Language: English
• 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

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...