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Natural Rewards Self‐Management, Personality, and Achievement Outcomes
Author(s) -
Lee Felissa K.,
Turban Daniel B.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00660.x
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , psychology , extraversion and introversion , neuroticism , personality , social psychology , big five personality traits , perception , natural (archaeology) , test (biology) , structural equation modeling , applied psychology , computer science , history , paleontology , archaeology , neuroscience , machine learning , biology
The purpose of this paper is to test and examine a model of personality and self‐regulation that specifies a possible self‐regulatory route to increased performance in achievement contexts—the use of natural rewards self‐management strategies, which allow people to create motivating situations by modifying tasks through perceptual or physical means. This model is hierarchically organized with global personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness) predicting use of natural rewards, and natural rewards influencing attention and effort, which are positively related to performance. Participants were undergraduate students at 3 large state universities, and data were collected at 4 points during the semester. Results from structural equation modeling provided support for the model. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.