Revisiting the personality-performance link

Studies on the personality-performance relationship have traditionally focused on relating stable individual differences in behaviour, thought, and emotion (i.e., personality traits) to stable individual differences in performance. Whereas this approach has undoubtedly advanced our understanding of the relationship between personality and performance, it is at odds with a recent call in the literature to conceptualize personality in a more dynamic and integrative way. In our research, we respond to this call by developing Personality Dynamics model, a novel theoretical framework that not only describes individual differences in habitual pattern of behaviour, thought, and emotion, but also in the extent to which behaviours, thoughts, and emotions vary, and in the swiftness with which they are pulled back in the direction of the baseline once they have deviated from it. Building on that, we propose a series of experience sampling studies that examine how stability and change in personality links with performance.

Faculty Supervisor:

Yannick Griep

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Partner:

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Discipline:

Sociology

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University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award