Broad Dispositions, Broad Aspirations: The Intersection of Personality Traits and Major Life Goals

By B. Roberts, Richard W. Robins. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Personality aspects of entrepreneurship: A look at five meta-analyses. (2011, unknown): “…for achievement, afﬁliation, or power), values, and attitudes are not independent of temperament traits (Cattell, 1965; Olver & Mooradian, 2003; Roberts & Robins, 2000), they are theoretically and empirically distinct individual dispositions with different causes and effects that may be…”
Contextualized Personality, beyond Traits (2015, background): “…personal goals (e.g. ‘Become an accomplished musician’), whereas those indicating high levels of agreeableness tend to produce narratives concerning social matters (e.g. friendship) and endorse more social goals (e.g. ‘Helping others in need’; McAdams et al., 2004; Roberts & Robins, 2000).”
Narcissism and academic dishonesty: The exhibitionism dimension and the lack of guilt (2011, background): “Thus, it is probably not too surprising that in the workplace, narcissism is associated with several negative behaviors, such as impulsive, risky decisionmaking (Chatterjee & Hambrick, 2007), counterproductive workplace behavior (Judge, LePine, & Rich, 2006; Penney & Spector, 2002), and white…”
Destructive Leadership (2013, background): “Roberts and Robins (2000) demonstrated that narcissists are likely to set self-centered goals reflecting their desire to get ahead of others.”
Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology: Mapping the Domains of the New Interactionist Paradigm (2002, background): “Personality traits are also perceptually organized in ways that correspond to specific goals linked to the adaptive problems identified earlier (e.g., Read, Jones, & Miller, 1990; Roberts & Robins, 2000).”
Back to the Future: Personality and Assessment and Personality Development. (2009, background): “Rather, given the empirical data on the relation between goals and personality traits (e.g., Emmons & McAdams, 1991; Roberts & Robins, 2000) it is clear that they are associated with one another, but at a level far more modest than would be the case if motives and goals were an intrinsic component…”
The Role of Purposeful Work Goals in Promoting Meaning in Life and in Schoolwork During Adolescence (2009, methodology): “To this end, we chose an economic life goals scale (Roberts & Robins, 2000), a four-item measure that asked respondents to rate how important various self-oriented goals were, such as having a high-status career and having a high-paying career.”
Should i stay or should i go? Attachment and personality in stable and instable romantic relationships (2006, background): “CONCLUSION Finding a partner and obtaining a satisfying and stable relationship is an important goal for many people (Roberts & Robins, 2000).”
Personality, Motivation, and College Readiness: A Prospectus for Assessment and Development (2014, background): “The evidence for their separability is that they are only weakly correlated (B. W. Roberts & Robins, 2000) and that they display separate developmental trajectories (traits tend to go up with age, goals tend to go down; B. W. Roberts, O’Donnell, & Robins, 2004).”
The structure of goal contents across 15 cultures. (2005, background): “Satorra, A., & Bentler, P. M. (2001). A scaled difference chi-square test statistic for moment structure analysis.”
Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism: A Psychological Exploration of Value and Goal Conflicts (2007, background): “The importance placed on goals for financial success is also associated with greater disagreeableness (Roberts and Robins, 2000), lower empathy (Sheldon and Kasser, 1995), more Machiavellian tendencies (McHoskey, 1999), and more racial prejudice (Duriez, Vansteenkiste, Soenens, and DeWitte, 2005).”
Psychological characteristics and household savings behavior: The importance of accounting for latent heterogeneity (2018, background): “One mechanism which could explain why extraversion is negatively related to savings is the tendency for extraverts to be more concerned with social status (Roberts and Robins, 2000).”
Positive Adolescent Career Development: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Work Values (2010, background): “Values can be seen as enduring goals (Roberts & Robins, 2000) and it is therefore plausible that intrinsic but not extrinsic work values are positively related to achievement in terms of career development.”
The Power of Personality: The Comparative Validity of Personality Traits, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Ability for Predicting Important Life Outcomes (2007, background): “Moreover, these different domains of personality are only modestly correlated (e.g., Ackerman & Heggested, 1997; Roberts & Robins, 2000).”
Mental representations of social values (2010, background): “…connection between values, motivation, and emotion ( Johnson-Laird & Oatley, 1992; Keltner & Haidt, 1999; Lawrence et al., 2002); theories of individual differences in goals and personality traits cite basic relations with values (Grouzet et al., 2005; Hofer et al., 2006; Roberts & Robins, 2000).”