Relationship of personality to performance motivation: A meta-analytic review.

✍ Scribed by Judge, Timothy A.; Ilies, Remus

• Book ID: 115453386
• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 76 KB
• Volume: 87
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.87.4.797

✦ Synopsis

This article provides a meta-analysis of the relationship between the five-factor model of personality and 3 central theories of performance motivation (goal-setting, expectancy, and self-efficacy motivation). The quantitative review includes 150 correlations from 65 studies. Traits were organized according to the five-factor model of personality. Results indicated that Neuroticism (average validity ϭ Ϫ.31) and Conscientiousness (average validity ϭ .24) were the strongest and most consistent correlates of performance motivation across the 3 theoretical perspectives. Results further indicated that the validity of 3 of the Big Five traits-Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness-generalized across studies. As a set, the Big Five traits had an average multiple correlation of .49 with the motivational criteria, suggesting that the Big Five traits are an important source of performance motivation.

The purpose of this article is to advance understanding of the possible dispositional basis of work motivation by providing a Timothy A. Judge and Remus Ilies, Department of Management, University of Florida.

We thank Jason Colquitt for his assistance with the study.