background and aim: nurses’ job satisfaction has a main role in elevating the quality of healthcare services delivered to patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits dimensions (i.e., neuroticism, extroversion, conscientiousness) and job satisfaction among nurses working in the hospitals affiliated to ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sci...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The social gradient in smoking is well known, with higher rates among those in less advantaged socioeconomic position. Some recent research has reported that personality characteristics partly explain this gradient. However, the majority of existing work is limited by cross-sectional designs unsuitable to determine whether differences in conscientiousness are a predictor or ...

Influence of Conscientiousness Page numbers The Influence of Conscientiousness on the Dynamics of Institutional Departure Over the years concerns have increased about retention and attrition in higher education. In order to develop and improve retention services it is important to understand the underlying dynamics associated with institutional departure. As opposed to research on college perfo...

OBJECTIVE The present study explored pathways from the personality traits of neuroticism and conscientiousness through health-related behaviors to diurnal patterns of the stress hormone cortisol using data from a large national study. METHOD Using prospective data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS II) study and the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE II, a MIDUS substudy), hi...

In this paper, I investigate whether investments in higher education causally affect longevity. I also investigate the role of personality skills in producing longevity, taking into account their potential interaction with education. The causal status of higher education in affecting health and longevity is unclear in the literature, largely because of unknown confounding factors, reverse causa...

OBJECTIVE Diabetes is an increasingly important public health concern, but little is known about the contribution of psychological factors on diabetes risk. We examined whether personality is associated with risk of incident diabetes and diabetes-related mortality. METHOD An individual-participant meta-analysis of 34,913 adults free of diabetes at baseline (average age 53.7 years, 57% women) ...

Regarding the high importance of credibility evaluation of health information online in every day and career life, the current research aimed to explore how expert users including students and faculty members evaluate health information on the web especially with regard to their personality trait of conscientiousness. By considering the extensive body of literature and research methodologies, a...

The purpose of this research is to examine the association between five major dimensions of personality and systemic inflammation through (a) new data on C-reactive protein (CRP) from three large national samples of adults that together cover most of the adult lifespan and (b) a meta-analysis of published studies on CRP and interleukin-6 (IL-6). New data (total N=26,305) were drawn from the Nat...

We provide an axiomatic foundation for a personality trait which has important implications for economic behavior, Conscientiousness, and two aspects of that factor, the inhibitive and the proactive. We refer to these two aspects here with the names, probably more intuitive for economists, of control and motivation. The first aspect is commonly associated in analysis of individual behavior with...

Researchers of broad and narrow traits have debated whether narrow traits are important to consider in the prediction of job performance. Because personality-performance relationship meta-analyses have focused almost exclusively on the Big Five, the predictive power of narrow traits has not been adequately examined. In this study, the authors address this question by meta-analytically examining...