Conscientiousness
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In psychology, Conscientiousness is the trait of being painstaking and careful, or the quality of being in accord with the dictates of one's conscience. Conscientiousness includes traits such as self-discipline, carefulness, thoroughness, orderedness, deliberation (the tendency to think carefully before acting) and need for achievement.
[edit] Personality models
Conscientiousness is one of the five scales of the "Big 5 model" of personality which also consists of Extraversion, Neuroticism, Openness (to experience), and Agreeableness (but note that different researchers use different names). Example Big 5 models are Costa and McCrae's NEO PI-R and Goldberg's NEO-IPIP.
Also the trait cluster of Conscientiousness overlaps with other models of personality including Cloninger's TCI in which it is called Self-Directedness and Jackson's Learning Styles Profiler in which it is called Conscientious Achiever.
[edit] Work performance
Much research argues that just conscientiousness from the Big 5 model predicts important behaviours such as work performance[citation needed]. In some job situations involving interpersonal interactions not just conscientiousness may be important but also other dimensions such as agreeableness and emotional stability[1].
[edit] References
- ^ Michael K. Mount, Murray R. Barrick, Greg L. Stewart, "Five-Factor Model of personality and Performance in Jobs Involving Interpersonal Interactions", Human Performance, 11(2&3):145-165, 1998.
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