Do personality states predict momentary task performance? The moderating role of personality variability

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 330-351

  Debusscher, Jonas ^a   Hofmans, Joeri ^a   De Fruyt, Filip ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conscientiousness; Momentary task performance; Neuroticism; Personality; Situational within person variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930391265     PISSN: 09631798     EISSN: 20448325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joop.12126     Document Type: Article

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