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Personality trait development and social investment in work

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Hudson, Nathan W., Roberts, Brent W., Lodi-Smith, Jennifer·2012·Journal of Research in Personality

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A longitudinal study of employed individuals was used to test the relationship between social investment at work-the act of cognitively and emotionally committing to one's job-and longitudinal and cross-sectional personality trait development. Participants provided ratings of personality traits and social investment at work at two time-points, separated by approximately three years. Data were analyzed using latent change models. Cross-sectional results showed that extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability were related to social investment at work. Additionally, a positive association was found between longitudinal change in social investment in work and change in personality traits-especially conscientiousness. Finally, the correlated changes in social investment and personality traits were invariant across age groups, suggesting that personality traits remain malleable across the lifespan.

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  • One robust finding from the work-experience literature is that work experiences correlate with personality trait changes and these associations are particularly strong for conscientiousness.

    “One robust finding to emerge from this literature is that work experiences correlate with personality trait changes and-as might be expectedthese associations are particularly strong for conscientiousness.”

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Authors
Hudson, N. W., Roberts, B. W., & Lodi-Smith, J.
Affiliations
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
Corresponding author
Hudson, Nathan W.
Venue
Journal of Research in Personality
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-06
Volume
46
Issue
3
Pages
334-344
ISSN
0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2027696162
Cited by
233
References
49
Citations by year
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FWCI
11.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Research in Personality (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
Funders
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG021178)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Retirement, Disability, and Employment
Keywords
work commitment, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, work engagement

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