The Impact of Personality Adaptability on Job Satisfaction

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Northern Kentucky University

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"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."

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2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentation

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Job satisfaction, Adaptability (Psychology), Personality

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