Personality Strength and Situational Influences on Behavior: A Conceptual Review and Research Agenda

被引:66
作者
Dalal, Reeshad S. [1 ]
Meyer, Rustin D. [2 ]
Bradshaw, R. Patrick [2 ]
Green, Jennifer P. [1 ]
Kelly, Elnora D. [2 ]
Zhu, Mengmeng [1 ]
机构
[1] George Mason Univ, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[2] Georgia Inst Technol, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
关键词
personality strength; strong personality; weak personality; situational strength; attitude strength; self-monitoring; hardiness; traitedness; variability; within-person; within-subject; consistency; stability; review; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; ATTITUDE STRENGTH; JOB-PERFORMANCE; WORK BEHAVIOR; CONSISTENCY; VARIABILITY; TRAITS; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; METAANALYSIS;
D O I
10.1177/0149206314557524
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Notwithstanding a recent flurry of organizational research on the construct of situational strength, research on the other side of the coinpersonality strengthhas rarely been conducted in organizational settings, has been scattered across multiple disciplines, has been called different things by different researchers, and has not yet been used to test theoretical propositions paralleling those in recent organizational research on situational strength. In the present review, drawing from several disparate research literatures (e.g., situational strength, personality states, traitedness, cross-situational consistency, scalability, appropriateness, self-monitoring, interpersonal dependency, hardiness, attitude strength, and self-concept clarity), we (a) define personality strength and contrast it with personality trait, personality strengths (plural), and layperson conceptualizations of the terms strong personality and weak personality, (b) briefly discuss the history of research related to personality strength, (c) identify a common prediction, emanating largely independently from several literatures, regarding the interactive effect of personality traits and personality strength on behavior, (d) articulate three novel predictions regarding the impact of personality strength on within-person situational and behavioral variability, (e) develop three broad categories of personality strength operationalizations (i.e., statistical, content-general, and content-independent) and discuss potential interrelationships among them, (f) suggest best practices for operationalization, thereby providing an agenda for future research, and, finally, (g) discuss the practical implications of this work for human resource management.
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页码:261 / 287
页数:27
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