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I'd like to thank the ladies and gents who participated in my study earlier this year by completing my online questionnaire. In return for completing my survey, I offered to use the personality inventory section of the questionnaire for each participant to create a personality report and profile for them. I hope that those who asked for these found them to be accurate and interesting.
In terms of the study itself, I was investigating the relationship between personality, the extent to which you identify with your work team, and your willingness to perform to a high level and contribute an extra effort at work - this extra effort is called 'organisational citizenship behaviour'. So altogether with the results from you lovely people, and the many other sources that I used to recruit participants (250 people in total), I did indeed find what I was looking for:
The technical term for the relationship/s that I found is called statistical 'mediation'. I found that out of the 5 major personality factors (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and intellect (openness to experience)) that while high levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness predict high levels of organisational citizenship behaviour, they also predict the extent to which you will identify psychologically with your work team ('we' instead of 'I', for example). This level of identification itself in turn also predicts the extent to which you will perform to a high level and participate in extra effort. The path diagram looks like this:
For those who are interested, I can also show you the actual structural path diagram with the regression weights, etc, but it's a bit messy and confusing. Anyway, to explain this diagram: your level of agreeableness and conscientiousness predict your effort and performance at work, in addition to your level of identification with your work team, which itself also predicts your performance and effort at work. To state it technically, identification with ones work team is found to mediate the relationship between agreeableness and OCBs, and conscientiousness and OCBs.
Stay tuned, part 2 of this story is coming up in a few minutes.
I'd like to thank the ladies and gents who participated in my study earlier this year by completing my online questionnaire. In return for completing my survey, I offered to use the personality inventory section of the questionnaire for each participant to create a personality report and profile for them. I hope that those who asked for these found them to be accurate and interesting.
In terms of the study itself, I was investigating the relationship between personality, the extent to which you identify with your work team, and your willingness to perform to a high level and contribute an extra effort at work - this extra effort is called 'organisational citizenship behaviour'. So altogether with the results from you lovely people, and the many other sources that I used to recruit participants (250 people in total), I did indeed find what I was looking for:
The technical term for the relationship/s that I found is called statistical 'mediation'. I found that out of the 5 major personality factors (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and intellect (openness to experience)) that while high levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness predict high levels of organisational citizenship behaviour, they also predict the extent to which you will identify psychologically with your work team ('we' instead of 'I', for example). This level of identification itself in turn also predicts the extent to which you will perform to a high level and participate in extra effort. The path diagram looks like this:
For those who are interested, I can also show you the actual structural path diagram with the regression weights, etc, but it's a bit messy and confusing. Anyway, to explain this diagram: your level of agreeableness and conscientiousness predict your effort and performance at work, in addition to your level of identification with your work team, which itself also predicts your performance and effort at work. To state it technically, identification with ones work team is found to mediate the relationship between agreeableness and OCBs, and conscientiousness and OCBs.
Stay tuned, part 2 of this story is coming up in a few minutes.
