Big Five Personality

By Jeb S. Puryear. 2019

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The role of affect in entrepreneurial orientation (2018, methodology): “Second, with respect to the Big Five entrepreneurship literature, Zhao and Seibert (2006) have shown that entrepreneurs score higher than managers do on conscientiousness and openness to experience and lower on neuroticism and agreeableness.”
Integrating psychological approaches to entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Personality System (EPS) (2017, background): “Research indicates that higher values in extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness and lower values in agreeableness and neuroticism relate to entrepreneurship (Costa et al. 1984; De Fruyt and Mervielde 1997, 1999; Zhao and Seibert 2006; Zhao et al. 2010).”
Loneliness and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Meta–Analysis (2020, background): “Additionally, extraversion is associated with other positive interpersonal outcomes such as likeability and popularity (Mervielde & De Fruyt, 2000; van der Linden, Scholte, Cillessen, Nijenhuis, & Segers, 2010; Nikitin & Freund, 2015), which might affect loneliness.”
Entrepreneurial mindset: An integrated definition, a review of current insights, and directions for future research (2021, unknown): “Further, Antoncic et al. (2015) find a positive relationship between facets of the Big Five personality characteristics and entrepreneurship, and Miller (2015) suggests that downsides may exist with some entrepreneurial personality traits.”