Personality in Action: Assessing Personality to Identify an 'Ideal' Conscientious Response Type with Two Different Behavioural Tasks. Issue 5 (September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gniewosz, Gabriela; Ortner, Tuulia M.; Scherndl, Thomas
• Is Part Of: European journal of personality. Volume 34:Issue 5(2020)
• Page Start: 808
• Page End: 825
• Publication Date: 2020-09
• Subjects: behavioural data -- conscientiousness -- latent profile analysis -- performance test -- response types; Personality -- Periodicals; 155.2
• DOI: 10.1002/per.2296
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0890-2070

Abstract

Performance on achievement tests is characterized by an interplay of different individual attributes such as personality traits, motivation or cognitive styles. However, the prediction of individuals' performance from classical self–report personality measures obtained during large and comprehensive aptitude assessments is biased by, for example, subjective response tendencies. This study goes beyond by using behavioural data based on two different types of tasks, requiring different conscientious–related response behaviours. Moreover, a typological approach is proposed, which includes different behavioural indicators to obtain information on complex personality characteristics. © 2020 The Authors. European Journal of Personality published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology