Association between the five-factor model of personality and work engagement: a meta-analysis
verifiedrich profile · Industrial Health · 2021
FUKUZAKI, Toshiki; IWATA, Noboru
How this was studied
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What this article reports
The findings we extracted from this work, normalized into Principia’s relationship form (X → Y). Each feeds the synthesized models below.
conscientiousness → work engagement
agreeableness → work engagement
extraversion → work engagement
Models this article informs
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agreeableness predicts work engagement
conscientiousness predicts work engagement
extraversion predicts work engagement
neuroticism predicts work engagement
In the authors’ words
The article’s own abstract.
The purposes of this meta-analysis were (1) to examine the associations between work engagement (WE) and the personality dimensions of five-factor model and (2) to determine how much variance in WE is explained by these five factors. We performed a database search for studies related to personality traits and WE, and 36 papers that reported correlation coefficients were selected for the meta-analysis. After correcting for publication bias using the trim-and-fill method, conscientiousness had the strongest association with WE (ρ=0.41), followed by extraversion and openness to experience (0.38), neuroticism (−0.36), and agreeableness (0.27). Moreover, 30% of the WE variance could be explained by the five-factor model (R2=0.33, 95%CI=0.26–0.49) according to a path analysis using the weighted average correlation for unreliability. This proportion was higher than that from a previous meta-analysis of job satisfaction and job performance and was lower than that of personality and WE. Thus, to enhance WE, it is necessary to evaluate both the personality and the psychosocial work environment in detail.
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supports “Elsewhere, research [43, 48] has also shown that conscientiousness was more strongly associated with academic and work engagement.”
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