What I experienced yesterday is who I am today: Relationship of work motivations and behaviors to within-individual variation in the five-factor model of personality

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 199-221

  Judge, Timothy A ^a,b   Simon, Lauren S ^c   Hurst, Charlice ^d   Kelley, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big five; Experience sampling; Five factor model; Personality; Within individual variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORK;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORK;

EID: 84897612156     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034485     Document Type: Article

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