Improving survey response: Lessons learned from the European Social Survey.
While face-to-face interviewing has been found to have small effects on the reliability of Big Five assessment across adulthood, the telephone interviewing method was expected to be associated with reduced factorial invariance in later adulthood.
Age differences in personality: Evidence from a nationally representative Australian sample.
Computer assisted telephone interviewing: Effects on interviewers and respondents.
The five-factor model not only helps people better understand how they compare to others and to put names to their characteristics.
Of particular interest is the exploration of the five traits and job satisfaction, with a study finding that emotional stability, conscientiousness and extroversion were the top traits to predict general job satisfaction.
Description: Intelligent activity involves contemplation of long-range goals, organising and planning routes to these goals and persisting toward one's goals in the face of short-lived impulses to the contrary.