The Relationship between Big-five Personality and Subjective Career Success: A Meta-analysis of the Prior 15-year Researches

Abstract

Abstract:

Using Meta-analysis, we conduct a qualitative review on the prior 15-year literatures of the relationship between Big-five personality and subjective career success (career satisfaction). A 17331 sample included in 16 valuable papers is selected through literature search, the analysis on which show that: Big-five personality is positively related to career satisfaction; the relationship between neuroticism (r=-0.339) and career satisfaction is the highest, followed by extravert (r=0.158) and agreeableness (r=0.158), and then responsibility (r=0.137) and open to experience(r=0.125); the measurement of personality, the time span of data, job category moderated the relationship between big-five personality and career satisfaction. It infers that Big-five personality is a significant predictor of career satisfaction, and the relationship between them varies in different regions and different job categories. The direction of further exploring the relationship between personality and career satisfaction is discussed as well.

Key words: Big-five personality, subjective career success, career satisfaction, meta-analysis, moderated effects

Weng Qingxiong, Peng Chuanhu, Cao Weilin, Xi Youmin. The Relationship between Big-five Personality and Subjective Career Success: A Meta-analysis of the Prior 15-year Researches[J]. , 2016, 28(1): 83-95.

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