What I’d like to know, primarily, is whether the Big Five traits correlate with anything other than answers to questionnaire items: in particular, actual behavior.
Pointer to studies appreciated; Google hasn’t turned up much. Some studies of job performance have C having the kind of influence you’d expect, then there’s things like this.
I think Bryan Caplan talks about the Big Five some and is usually pretty clear thinking. He has a paper on the topic which gives some references for correlations between the Big Five and other things. For example:
A particularly noteworthy aspect of the Conscientiousness—job performance link is that Conscientiousness is highly correlated (.5 to .6) with various measures of educational achievement but uncorrelated with measured intelligence. (Barrick and Mount 1991, p.5) Conscientious people are more successful in both school and work. In consequence, rate of return to education estimates that fail to control for Conscientiousness are likely to be biased upwards.
And
Criminals are on average markedly lower in both Conscientiousness and Agreeableness than non-criminals, even holding other variables fixed.1 (Costa and Widiger 1994; Wilson and Herrnstein 1985)
I’d be interested in hearing if you find interesting results.
I am also interested in that. My impression from hearing people talk about such things is that yes, they do, but I don’t actually know much about this area. That result is interesting.
What I’d like to know, primarily, is whether the Big Five traits correlate with anything other than answers to questionnaire items: in particular, actual behavior.
Pointer to studies appreciated; Google hasn’t turned up much. Some studies of job performance have C having the kind of influence you’d expect, then there’s things like this.
I think Bryan Caplan talks about the Big Five some and is usually pretty clear thinking. He has a paper on the topic which gives some references for correlations between the Big Five and other things. For example:
And
I’d be interested in hearing if you find interesting results.
I am also interested in that. My impression from hearing people talk about such things is that yes, they do, but I don’t actually know much about this area. That result is interesting.