title: Nonlinear personality-performance relationships and the spurious moderating effects of traitedness.
abstract: This article evaluated the validity of two traditional traitedness measures (i.e., standard deviation traitedness measures and global, single-item traitedness measures) and three new traitedness measures (i.e., multi-item, ranking, and facet traitedness measures). Overall, there was poor construct validity for both the traditional and new measures of traitedness. Furthermore, traitedness was a spurious moderator of the relationship between openness to experience and academic performance. Finally, evidence of nonlinear personality-academic performance relationships was discovered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA. jcucina@gwu.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cucina
authors.forename: Nicholas L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Vasilopoulos
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011582:Psychological Theory