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Power of the Circumplex: Incremental validity of intersection traits in predicting counterproductive work behaviors
Author(s) -
GonzalezMulé Erik,
DeGeest David,
Mount Michael K.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/ijsa.12041
Subject(s) - psychology , agreeableness , conscientiousness , big five personality traits , counterproductive work behavior , variance (accounting) , social psychology , incremental validity , personality , extraversion and introversion , developmental psychology , psychometrics , test validity , organizational citizenship behavior , organizational commitment , accounting , business
This study examines the role of the circumplex model of personality in predicting counterproductive work behaviors ( CWB s). Drawing on the fidelity‐bandwidth principle, we investigate the hypotheses that each of the three sets of circumplex traits representing the intersections of conscientiousness–agreeableness, conscientiousness–emotional stability, and agreeableness–emotional stability will account for significant incremental variance over five‐factor model ( FFM ) traits in predicting CWB s. Results indicated the circumplex traits contribute incremental variance over the FFM traits, are relatively more important than the FFM traits, and account for 1.5–2.0 times more variance in the total R 2 associated with CWB s. Collectively, these findings show that circumplex traits capture unique information not explained by FFM traits, and this information leads to a better understanding of the dispositional nature of CWB s.