The moderating role of conscientiousness in the relations between work engagement and job characteristics
- Authors: Malherbe, Abrie
- Date: 2012-06-05
- Subjects: Conscientiousness , Work engagement , Job demands , Personality , Job stress , Workaholics
- Type: Mini-Dissertation
- Identifier: uj:2405 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4858
- Description: M.Phil. , This study investigated the possibility of moderation, confounding and direct effects of conscientiousness on the relationships between job characteristics and work engagement. The job demands-control-support model was used to operationalise the job characteristics. The interaction effects of this model were also investigated. The objectives of this study were pursued by means of moderated hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The results showed that control moderated the effects of demands on work engagement. The study also found that support moderated the effects of control on work engagement. The results provided evidence for a three-way interaction between demands, control and support. Conscientiousness was shown to influence work engagement directly but no significant evidence was found for the confounding and moderating effects of conscientiousness on the relationship between job characteristics and work engagement
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The relation between conscientiousness, empowerment and performance.
- Authors: Sutherland, R. , De Bruin, G.P. , Crous, F.
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Personality , Empowerment , Conscientiousness , Job performance
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:6454 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1393
- Description: This study examined the relationship between conscientiousness, empowerment and job performance among information technology professionals. An Employee Empowerment Questionnaire (EEQ), a Conscientiousness Scale and a Social Desirability Scale were administered to 101 information technology customer service engineers. Managers completed a Performance Evaluation Questionnaire (PEQ) for each customer service engineer. The results indicated a significant relationship between conscientiousness and empowerment. A curvilinear relationship was found between empowerment and performance. The practical and theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.
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An interbattery factor analysis of the Comrey personality scales and the 16 personality factor questionnaire.
- Authors: De Bruin, G.P.
- Date: 2000
- Subjects: Comrey personality scales , 16 Personality factor questionnaire , Inter-battery factor analysis , Big five personality factors , Extroversion , Neuroticism , Conscientiousness , Eysenchk's Psychoticism factor
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:6576 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2876
- Description: The scores of 700 Afrikaans-speaking university students on the Comrey Personality Scales and the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire were subjected to an inter-battery factor analysis. This technique uses only the correlations between two sets of variables and reveals only the factors that they have in common. Three of the Big Five personality factors were revealed, namely Extroversion, Neuroticism and Conscientiousness. However, the Conscientiousness factor contained a relatively strong unsocialised component and in this regard it is similar to Eysenck’s Psychoticism factor.The results support the construct validity of the Comrey Personality Scales and the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. Implications for personality questionnaire design and validation are discussed.
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Examining the cheats: the role of conscientiousness and excitement seeking in academic dishonesty.
- Authors: De Bruin, G.P.
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Academic dishonesty , Big five model , Cheating , Conscientiousness , Excitement seeking , Procrastination , Self-control
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:6566 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2866
- Description: This study examines the relationships of the personality traits of conscientiousness and excitement seeking with self-reported frequency of premeditated cheating in tests and exams among university students. The results show that the two traits combine to account for a statistically and practically significant proportion of variance in academic cheating. It appears that a lack of effort and a need for high excitement seeking may serve as predisposing traits with regard to academic cheating. A model of the role that the two traits may play in explaining academic cheating is presented.
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The cross-cultural validation of the conscientiousness scale of the South African Personality Inventory
- Authors: Horak, Shinell
- Date: 2013-07-18
- Subjects: South African Personality Inventory , Conscientiousness , Personality and culture , Personality assessment
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:7635 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8505
- Description: M.Comm. (Industrial Psychology) , The purpose of the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI) project is to develop a personality measure that can be used within the South African context and that can account for the diversity that exists within the South Africa. This study is intended at validating the Conscientiousness scale of the SAPI as well as considering how well the measure replicated across language groups (Germanic, Nguni and Sotho) in South Africa. The data utilised in this study was collected from working individuals from a number of different organisations in South Africa (N = 890). The Conscientiousness scale consists of 36 items that yielded a five factor structure namely, Dedication, Discipline, Commitment, Orderliness, Organised. It was found that the Conscientiousness scale is a valid and reliable measure of the personality trait Conscientiousness scale. The results indicated that the general factor, Conscientiousness replicated well across the different language groups in South Africa, but the five factor solution did not yield conclusive results. Furthermore, the results of the Differential Test Functioning (DTF) analysis revealed that the scale had a significant effect size and upon further investigation it was shown that two of the items that had significant Differential Item Functioning (DIF) effect sizes could be removed in order to obtain a non-bias measure of Conscientiousness on the SAPI.
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