PSYCH-220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Absenteeism, Job Performance, Extraversion And Introversion
28 Sep 2020
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Extraversion : warm, gregarious, assertive, active, excitement seeking, dominant, optimistic, ambitious. Higher status, rated as more popular and physically attractive, more positive emotions. Argumentative, need to be incontrol, poor time management; targets of mate poaching. Neuroticism: emotional instability, negative emotionality, angry, sad, worry, anxious. Ineffective problem solving; strong negative reactions to stress. Negatively correlated with happiness, well-being, and physical health. General tendency toward psychopathology and mental illness. Life outcomes: problems in family relationships, dissatisfied with jobs, criminal behavior. Predicts job performance (r=. 41) & absenteeism (r=-. 33) More likely to feel guilty, less popular, less creative. Cooperative and easy to get along with. Women tend to be higher than men. Differences include role and meaning of intellect. Approach to intellectual matters or basic intelligence. Life outcomes: drug use, artistic interests big five. Universality of the big five and beyond. When translated to other languages, four or five of the factors appear. When starting with other languages: some overlap but not one-to-one correspondence.
