the purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating role of conscientiousness personality trait in the relationship of emotional exhaustion with job performance (task performance, organizational citizenship behaviors). the participants of this study consisted of 400 high school teachers in khuzestan province (260 male & 140 female) that were selected by multi-stage random sampling metho...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the effect of the Big Five factor of conscientiousness on task performance was mediated by performance expectancy, performance valence, and goal choice. There were 117 business students who completed 6 subscales of the Personality Research Form (D. N. Jackson, 1987), responded to several self-report measures, and performed a simple arithmetic tas...

Studies carried out in classroom-based learning context, have consistently shown a positive relation between students’ conscientiousness and their academic success. We hypothesize that time management and regularity are main constructing blocks of students’ conscientiousness in the context of online education. In online education, despite intuitive arguments supporting on-demand courses as more...

Three hundred twenty one (321) Far Eastern couriers completed the Job Performance Personality Inventory (JPPI), an occupational-based personality inventory. All “Big Five” personality dimensions were significantly correlated with job performance appraisal scores at varying magnitudes, with the most highly correlated dimension being conscientiousness. Based upon stepwise multiple regression anal...

Conscientiousness and goal orientation were examined as (a) predictors of motivation to learn and (b) moderators of reactions to performance levels during the learning process, using an Expectancy × Valence framework. Learners (N = 103) participated in a 6week course in which an objective performance goal was assigned. Results indicated that conscientiousness and learning orientation were posit...