PSY 3711 1st Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture I. What do we mean by personality?II. HistoryIII. Utility of personality traitsOutline of Current LectureI. Linking traits to performance modelsII. Incremental validityIII. Personality change and workCurrent LectureI. Linking traits to performance modelsa. Personality is an indirect determinant of performance related to a person’s motivation by influencing their volitional choicesb. Personality effects are mediated through direct determinants of real time motivation decision to act, level of effort, and persistence over timec. Results from mccloy, Campbell, and cudek provided confirmationII. Incremental validity a. Big 5 have small r with cognitive abilityb. Do personality traits explain additional variance n performance, beyond whatis explained by gc. Predictor oriented scalesi. Variety of inventories designed to measure the big 5 BFI, NEO-PI R, IPIP, MM, BFASd. Criterion oriented scalesi. Variety of personality related tests designed to measure particular outcomesii. Composites of the big 5 can be hard to interpretThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.iii. Integrity tests, stress tolerance scles, drug and alcohol scales, customer service orientation, managerial potential scales, sales performance scaleIII. Personality change and worka. Historically personality was viewed as fixed after entering young adulthoodb. View largely changed dur to research by Brent Roberts at UIUCc. People’s personality changes over the lifespan with people generally becoming more responsible and friendly, less neurotic and open to experience as they age higher in E, A, C; lower in N,
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