Good team players are often defined in trait terms; that is, they are described as dependable, flexible, or cooperative. Our goal is to examine the relationship between team member personality traits and team effectiveness. However, to understand the effects of personality on team performance requires greater specificity in how personality is described and in how team effectiveness is described...

Today’s educational systems across the world are aiming at producing graduates with research personalities in order to meet the challenges facing them in many different domains. However, the dimensions and constituents of such a personality need to be identified and nurtured in order to achieve the goal of developing a research personality in students. To this end, a group of 30 university prof...

The term personality comes from the Latin word persona, which means ‘mask’. This definition of personality implies that important aspects of a person remain concealed for some reason. Many answers exist to the question of personality. In fact, every theory of personality can be viewed as an attempt to define personality and these definitions differ markedly from one another. The psychoanalytic ...

The present study was undertaken with the objective to explore the influence of the five personality dimensions on the information seeking behaviour of the students in higher educational institutions. Information seeking behaviour is defined as the sum total of all those activities that are usually undertaken by the students of higher education to collect, utilize and process any kind of inform...

The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder undoubtedly includes a heterogeneous group of disorders. In fact the diagnosis itself was developed without field trials for validation, and it is therefore not surprising that the agreement using different diagnostic tools is actually quite low (52%) (Kavoussi et al, 1990). Because of the lack of clarity in the phenomenology of the diagnosis, ne...

TWO BROAD DOMAINS OF PERSONALITY Cognitive Abilities and Noncognitive Traits The entire human personality can be roughly divided into two domains, the noncognitive (or conative) and the cognitive. The first domain includes the personality traits (personality in the narrower sense of meaning), self-concept, self-esteem, well-being, emotionality or affect, motivation, and coping; the second domai...

This study was an attempt to find out the comparison between the personality dimensions of delinquents and non delinquents of Khyber Pukhtonkhwa (KPK). Eysenck personality Questionnaire (junior) (Urdu Version 2007) was administered on the sample of 400 (Delinquents = 200, non-delinquents = 200). Delinquents were the inmates in different jails of KPK while non-delinquents were the students of di...

These studies, exploring the effects of personality on team productivity, had a limited focus by considering only one or two teams, or examining one or two personality dimensions. While the previous studies are insightful, they only establish the foundation for further study [10]. Moreover, previous studies were conducted on large software teams; the results of these studies are not generalizab...

The personality systems of Cloninger (as measured by the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire [TPQ]) and Eysenck (as measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire [EPQ]) both have been linked to substance use and abuse. The current study examined the predictive utility of both systems for substance use disorder (SUD) diagnoses, both cross-sectionally and prospectively. Participants (N =...

In this study, we investigated how each personality traits, described by the Big Five, and the prior knowledge of a group affect the process and outcome of the electronic focus group. On the basis of data from 38 students, who formed 5 electronic focus groups, results indicated that 2 dimensions of personality, Adjustment (r = -0.975) and Agreeableness (r = -0.938), were significantly related t...