PSYC370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Conscientiousness, Narcissism, Absenteeism
11 Jan 2017
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Chapter 7: using personality traits to understand behavior. Focuses on patterns of traits and sorts the patterns into types, Focused on nature, origins, and consequences of single, important traits. Correlation between integrity and absenteeism higher integrity scores. Personality assessments can help alleviate effects of bias in testing . More reliable integrity/conscientiousness/personality tests do not show racial/ethnic differences conscientious people both avoid risk and seek to protect themselves just incase, so they also buy insurance. Conscientiousness is a better predictor of success in college than sat. People with lowest risk are most likely to buy insurance high. Conscientious people live longer more likely to avoid risky behaviors. Years of education is a marker variable/signal of conscientiousness . Relationship between one"s private inner reality and external self. High self-monitors vary in their inner and outer selves and in how they more years, higher conscientiousness presented to others.
