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Item The Impact of Personality Adaptability on Job Satisfaction(Northern Kentucky University) Seiter, Maria"Previous research has shown that personality differentially impacts job satisfaction; e.g. conscientiousness has been shown to be a strong predictor of job satisfaction. This relationship may be over simplified due to the assumption of unidimensonality present in self-report measurement. We employed data collected using a new response format combining a funnel response format with Item Response Tree modeling to account for three proposed underlying processes of personality: adaptability, traitedness, and trait level. Job flexibility was found to be a significant predictor while conscientiousness was negative. Given that our results differed from past studies, this relationship may not be linear."