We also plotted the interaction effect and found that the strength of the negative relationship between negative feedback and job performance was reduced when
extraversion (simple slope = -.
Extraversion: Another of the "Big Five" traits,
Extraversion has been found to be related to career indecision.
The present investigation was designed to study the big five personality factors (Neuroticism,
Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness) of adolescent boys and girls of Shimla town.
The factor correlation matrix showed that Neuroticism correlated negatively with
Extraversion (r = -.
The results in table 3 showed a significant negative relationship between agreeableness of adolescents and
extraversion of father and a significant positive relationship between agreeableness of adolescents and conscientiousness of father; neuroticism of adolescents and neuroticism of father.
In order to control for the possible confounding effect,
extraversion was assessed using a subscale of the Big Five Inventory (John, Donahue, & Kentle, 1991).
Given the associations of
extraversion and neuroticism with both smoking and delay discounting, it is possible that the increased rates of delay discounting seen with smokers might be due, at least in part, to personality differences.
Literature reflects strong association of
extraversion and neuroticism with emotions but Tobin et al.
For example, neuroticism and
extraversion are positively reltated to Facebook addiction [14, 16], while conscientiousness is negatively reated to Facebook addiction [6, 14].
Extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability are the core elements of personality that signal the value of social bonds with others and affect the nature and development of social relationships (Barrick, Stewart, Neubert, and Mount, 1998; Kalish and Robins, 2006; van Vianen and De Dreu, 2001).
More specifically researches conducted by (Belsky and Barends, 2002; Belsky, Crnic and Woodworth, 1995; Metsapelto and Pulkkinen, 2002) revealed that parents with high scores on
extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness displayed more positive, supportive and responsive parenting and less negative controlling parenting.
However, Personality traits such as emotional stability;
extraversion or urgency, analytical and agreeableness can affect students' coping skills and ability to adapt them to the ever challenging university life while others may provoke them to adopt some of the negative strategies.
