Personality, Adaptability, and Performance: Performance on Well-Defined Problem Solving Tasks
| Autor: | David P. Costanza, K. Victoria Threlfall, Michael D. Mumford, Charles E. Uhlman, Wayne A. Baughman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
media_common.quotation_subject Background data Stimulus Ambiguity Adaptability Task (project management) Personality Big Five personality traits Set (psychology) Psychology Social psychology General Psychology Applied Psychology media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Human Performance. 6:241-285 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7043 0895-9285 |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s15327043hup0603_4 |
| Popis: | Prior research indicates that certain personality constructs influence perfor- mance on complex problem-solving tasks. In this study, we demonstrated that personality constructs can also serve to maintain performance as people move from familiar, well-defined tasks to unfamiliar, ill-defined tasks. Accordingly, 250 college students were asked to complete a set of background data items intended to measure relevant personality constructs. Performance on well-de- fined and ill-defined laboratory problem-solving tasks was then assessed, along with high school and college grades. In addition, measures of subjects' beliefs about and reactions to task performance were obtained. In a series of discriminant analyses, we found that a particular pattern of personality con- structs contributed to the maintenance of good performance as people moved from the well-defined to the ill-defined laboratory task and from high school to college. More specifically, creative achievement, self-discipline, and a lack of defensive ... |
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