Personality Traits of Workers and the Work-Family Interface
Author(s):
- Alyssa Friede Westring
- Ann Marie Ryan
Document type: Encyclopedia Entry
Appears in: Work and Family Encyclopedia
Year: 2007
Topic:
- Identity
- Roles
- Spillover
- Work and Family
Discipline:
- Business and Management
- Psychology
Abstract:
Personality has been defined as, “an individual’s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms – hidden or not – behind those patterns” (Funder, 2001, p.2). In other words, personality reflects differences in how individuals think about and react to situations. For many years, personality assessment has been used by researchers and practitioners to predict and explain numerous work-related outcomes. For example, personality has been shown to be related to job performance and job satisfaction (Barrick & Mount, 1991; Judge, Heller, & Mount, 2002).