Personality Traits Quiz
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Which trait refers to the tendency to avoid fraud and corruption?

  • Fairness (correct)
  • Sincerity
  • Greed avoidance
  • Modesty
  • What trait is characterized by one's need for emotional support from others?

  • Sociability
  • Fearfulness
  • Liveliness
  • Dependence (correct)
  • Which trait represents one's comfort or confidence within a variety of social situations?

  • Social boldness (correct)
  • Self-esteem
  • Gentleness
  • Prudence
  • What trait refers to one's typical enthusiasm and energy?

    <p>Liveliness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which trait represents the tendency to be thorough and concerned with details?

    <p>Perfectionism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trait refers to one's enjoyment of beauty and art in nature?

    <p>Aesthetic appreciation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which trait represents the tendency to work hard?

    <p>Diligence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trait is characterized by the tendency to compromise and cooperate with others?

    <p>Flexibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which trait represents the tendency to seek order, particularly in one’s physical surroundings?

    <p>Organization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trait refers to one’s willingness to feel trust and like those who may have caused them harm?

    <p>Forgiveness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trait refers to the tendency to be uninterested in possessing lavish wealth, luxury goods, and signs of high social status?

    <p>Greed avoidance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which trait represents the tendency to feel strong emotional bonds with others?

    <p>Dependence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trait refers to one’s willingness to compromise and cooperate with others?

    <p>Flexibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which trait represents the tendency to have a positive self-regard in social contexts?

    <p>Self-esteem</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trait refers to the tendency to worry in a variety of contexts?

    <p>Anxiety</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which trait represents the tendency to enjoy conversation, social interactions and parties?

    <p>Sociability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trait is characterized by the tendency to avoid fraud and corruption?

    <p>Fairness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which trait represents the tendency to seek information about and experience with the natural/human world?

    <p>Inquisitiveness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trait refers to the tendency to deliberate carefully and inhibit impulses?

    <p>Prudence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which trait represents the tendency to accept the unusual?

    <p>Unconventionality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term is used to refer to 'differences among individuals in a typical tendency to behave, think, or feel in some conceptually related ways, across a variety of relevant situations and across some fairly long period of time'?

    <p>Personality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the text, which factor has limited influence on personality?

    <p>Environmental factors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the focus of the 'Great man' theories from the 19th century?

    <p>Unique qualities inherited by heroes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between traits and behaviors as mentioned in the text?

    <p>Traits are relatively stable, while behaviors are malleable</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to refer to 'differences among individuals in a typical tendency to behave, think, or feel in some conceptually related ways'?

    <p>Individual differences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the text, what partly determines our personality?

    <p>Genes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which personality typology is described as predominant in the text?

    <p>The HEXACO model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the text, what does the dimension of 'Honesty-Humility' predict in organizational work?

    <p>Corruption and work performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the HEXACO model's 'Emotionality' dimension include?

    <p>Fearfulness, anxiety, dependence, and sentimentality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What percentage of the variance regarding leadership emergence was attributed to the leader’s characteristics according to Kenny & Zaccaro (1983)?

    <p>Between 49% and 82%</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the text, which dimension of the HEXACO model predicts variables such as corruption and work performance?

    <p>Honesty-Humility</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which major studies found weak relationships between leader traits and outcomes in the leadership field?

    <p>Stogdill (1948); Mann (1959)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what time period did the study of innate differences stop to focus on groups and situations to 'understand how the world has gone mad'?

    <p>1960s and 1970s</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the resurgence of trait research in leadership focus on today?

    <p>'Profiles' or 'patterns' of leadership traits that are effective or ineffective in certain situations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Greed avoidance', a facet of the HEXACO model's 'Honesty-Humility' dimension, refers to the tendency to be uninterested in possessing what?

    <p>'Both lavish wealth and luxury goods'</p> Signup and view all the answers

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