Relationship of personality to performance motivation: a meta-analytic review.
This article provides a meta-analysis of the relationship between the five-factor model of personality and 3 central theories of performance motivation (goal-setting, expectancy, and self-efficacy motivation). The quantitative review includes 150 correlations from 65 studies. Traits were organized according to the five-factor model of personality. Results indicated that Neuroticism (average validity = -.31) and Conscientiousness (average validity = .24) were the strongest and most consistent correlates of performance motivation across the 3 theoretical perspectives. Results further indicated that the validity of 3 of the Big Five traits--Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness--generalized across studies. As a set, the Big Five traits had an average multiple correlation of .49 with the motivational criteria, suggesting that the Big Five traits are an important source of performance motivation.
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Timothy A
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Department of Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611-7165, USA. tjudge@ufl.edu
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D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D009790:Occupations; D010551:Personality; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis