MGHB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Conscientiousness, Job Performance, Type A And Type B Personality Theory
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February 14, 2017 lecture 7: personality, values, and diversity. Two types of personality traits: broad, general traits. General tendencies of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Basic building blocks of personality: narrow, specific traits. Derived to predicts a particular set of behaviours. Negative emotionality, anxious, emotional: emotionally stable. Outgoing, don"t have problem speaking up, assertive. Likes what they know, don"t want to try anything new: open. Important narrow trait: locus of control: how much people believe they are in control of what happens to their life. Internal locus of control: more effective on job, believe they are in control of what happens. External locus of control: believe the environment controls them: self-esteem. High: can take negative feedback better: type a personality. Anxious, strong sense of motivation, predictor of stress and health (more likely to have heart attack: self-monitoring. Some people don"t change themselves depending on who they are with. High self-monitor: change personality based on setting/ people they are with.
