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Personality Traits and Job Success: An investigation in a Thai sample 1
Author(s) -
Smithikrai Chuchai
Publication year - 2007
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/j.1468-2389.2007.00372.x
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , psychology , facet (psychology) , neuroticism , big five personality traits , extraversion and introversion , personality , trait , sample (material) , core self evaluations , social psychology , job performance , clinical psychology , job attitude , job satisfaction , chemistry , chromatography , computer science , programming language
The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive power of each facet of the five‐factor model of personality on job success in a Thai sample. The sample consisted of 2518 persons from seven occupations. The research found that for all occupational groups neuroticism was significantly negatively correlated with job success, while extraversion and conscientiousness were significantly positively correlated with job success. Moreover, conscientiousness was the only personality trait that consistently predicted job success of persons across occupations.