A study on the relationship between personality and intrinsic career success : the case of banking system in Beijing
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2008
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Honggang, Suo
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This study attempts to investigate the relationships between personality traits (Big Five
Personality Traits) and intrinsic career success. Personality traits are measured by five
characteristics: neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness.
Intrinsic career success contains job satisfaction, career satisfaction and life satisfaction. The
possible moderating effect of gender difference is also considered in this study. 175 managers
from the banks located in Beijing are given questionnaires and their responses are analyzed.
Results show that two of the five personality dimensions, namely neuroticism and
conscientiousness, are significantly related to job and career satisfaction. Conscientiousness is
also significantly related with life satisfaction. Extroversion is only found to be significantly
related with life satisfaction. The remaining two dimensions, namely; openness and
agreeableness do not show any significant correlation with job, career or life satisfaction.
Further investigation is carried out to ascertain the relationships between personality traits and
intrinsic career success are partially moderated by gender difference.
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Finance