Personality Traits and Career Role Enactment: Career Role Preferences as a Mediator.

ABSTRACT: It has been argued that how a person's career unfolds is increasingly affected by his or her own values, personality characteristics, goals and preferences. The current study addresses the issue of how we can explain that personality traits are associated with the enactment of certain career roles. Two survey studies (e.g., a two wave worker sample and a cross-sectional worker sample) were conducted to investigate the relationships between personality traits, career role preferences and career role enactment. As expected, results indicate that peoples' personality traits predicted the preference for certain roles in the work context which, in turn, predicted the career roles they actually occupy. Specifically, our findings show that Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Openness to experienc

SUBMITTER: de Jong N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6671867 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature