Situation Trait Relevance, Trait Expression, and Cross-Situational Consistency: Testing a Principle of Trait Activation

By R. Tett, H. Guterman. 2000

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

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When Does Cross-Cultural Motivation Enhance Expatriate Effectiveness? A Multilevel Investigation of the Moderating Roles of Subsidiary Support and Cultural Distance (2010, background): “In particular, building on trait activation theory (Tett & Burnett, 2003; Tett & Guterman, 2000), we posit that certain contextual aspects of foreign subsidiaries can moderate the extent to which expatriate cross-cultural motivation promotes work adjustment, and therefore job performance.”
The Good Judge Revisited: Individual Differences in the Accuracy of Personality Judgments (2005, methodology): “Understanding situation–trait relationships involves knowing whether a situation can be expected to elicit a behavioral response related to a given trait (Tett & Guterman, 2000).”
Motivating Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Management Systems (2014, background): “Also, the principle of trait activation suggests that personality traits influence behavior as a response to situational cues (see Barrick, Mitchell, & Stewart, 2003; Tett & Burnett, 2003; Tett & Guterman, 2000).”
The impact of feedback from job and task autonomy in the relationship between dispositional resistance to change and innovative work behaviour (2013, methodology): “This principle states that personality traits can be conceived as individual responses that require trait-relevant situations, such that the relationship between personality and behavioural reactions will vary across contexts that provide specific cues (Tett & Burnett, 2003; Tett & Guterman, 2000).”
Employee Machiavellianism to Unethical Behavior (2017, methodology): “We attempted to advance theory in this area by applying trait activation theory (Tett & Burnett, 2003; Tett & Guterman, 2000) to the personsituation interactionist model of behavioral ethics (Treviño, 1986).”
Do people fake on personality inventories? A verbal protocol analysis (2007, background): “We coded participants as honest based on the principle of trait activation—that ‘‘...behavioral expression of a trait requires arousal of that trait by trait-relevant situational cues’’ (p. 398) ( Tett & Guterman, 2000 ).”
Inclusive leadership and innovative work behavior: The role of psychological empowerment (2018, background): “Our work supported the notion that a situational supportive factor (e.g., inclusive leadership) enhanced employees’ IWB (Tett & Guterman, 2000).”
Antecedents of Impression Management Use and Effectiveness in a Structured Interview† (2007, background): “Furthermore, trait activation theory (Tett & Burnett, 2003; Tett & Gutterman, 2000) suggests that a trait will manifest itself in behavior if a situation is relevant to the trait (i.e., if it provides cues for the expression of trait-relevant behavior).”
Faking in Personality Assessment: A “Multisaturation” Perspective on Faking as Performance (2011, background): “Tett and colleagues ( Tett & Burnett, 2003 ; Tett & Guterman, 2000 ; Tett & Murphy, 2002 ) offered TAT as a basis for understanding how personality traits are linked to job performance.”