2005/02/15 by BRENT W. ROBERTS, Brent W. Roberts, Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko +5 · 14 citations
Psychology · Business, Management and Accounting · #Personality Traits and Psychology #Emotional Intelligence and Performance #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1744-6570.2005.00301.x
The purpose of this study was to identify the underlying structure of the trait domain of Conscientiousness using scales drawn from 7 major personality inventories. Thirty‐six scales conceptually related to Conscientiousness were administered to a large community sample ( N = 737); analyses of those scales revealed a hierarchical structure with 6 factors: industriousness, order, self‐control, responsibility, traditionalism, and virtue. All 6 factors demonstrated excellent convergent validity. Three of the 6 factors, industriousness, order, and self‐control, showed good discriminant validity. The remaining 3 factors—responsibility, traditionalism and virtue—appear to be interstitial constructs located equally between Conscientiousness and the remaining Big Five dimensions. In addition, the 6 underlying factors had both differential predictive validity and provided incremental validity beyond the general factor of Conscientiousness when used to predict a variety of criterion variables, including work dedication, drug use, and health behaviors.