Relationship of personality to performance motivation: a meta-analytic review.

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This article provides a meta-analysis of the relationship between the five-factor model of personality and 3 central theories of performance motivation (goal-setting, expectancy, and self-efficacy motivation). The quantitative review includes 150 correlations from 65 studies. Traits were organized according to the five-factor model of personality. Results indicated that Neuroticism (average validity = -.31) and Conscientiousness (average validity = .24) were the strongest and most consistent correlates of performance motivation across the 3 theoretical perspectives. Results further indicated that the validity of 3 of the Big Five traits--Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness--generalized across studies. As a set, the Big Five traits had an average multiple correlation of .49 with the motivational criteria, suggesting that the Big Five traits are an important source of performance motivation.

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Author/s: Judge, Timothy A (TA); Ilies, Remus (R);

Affiliation: Department of Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611-7165, USA. tjudge(-atsign-)ufl.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Meta-Analysis

Journal: The Journal of applied psychology (J Appl Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Aug; vol 87 (issue 4) : pp 797-807

Dates: Created 2002/08/19; Completed 2002/09/06; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12184582, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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