The Power of Personality: The Comparative Validity of Personality Traits, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Ability for Predicting Important Life Outcomes

By B. Roberts, N. Kuncel, Rebecca L Shiner, Avshalom Caspi, L. R. Goldberg. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health

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Predicting the Big 5 personality traits from digital footprints on social media: A meta-analysis (2018, background): “…digital footprints and personality seems to be in line with the typical strength of the relationships between personality and behaviors, also known as “ personality coe ﬃ cient ” (a Pearson correlation ranging from 0.30 to 0.40; Meyer et al., 2001; Roberts, Kuncel, Shiner, Caspi, & Goldberg, 2007).”
Personality and Pathways of Influence on Physical Health (2011, background): “Extraversion and agreeableness have been inconsistently linked to behavior and health (Cloninger, 2005; Roberts et al., 2007), possibly due to their social nature.”
Sex, Education and Procrastination: An Epidemiological Study of Procrastinators’ Characteristics from A Global Sample (2013, background): “(Roberts et al., 2007), slightly lower than what we observe”
Longitudinal Experience–Wide Association Studies—A Framework for Studying Personality Change (2020, background): “34: 285–300 (2020) DOI: 10.1002/per determinants, such as socio-economic status and cognitive ability (Roberts et al., 2007).”
Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes (2015, background): “…that measures of personal qualities have been shown in basic research studies to be predictive of consequential life outcomes months, years, or decades later (Almlund et al., 2011; Borghans et al., 2008; Farrington et al., 2012; Moffitt et al., 2011; Naemi et al., 2012; B. Roberts et al., 2007).”
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success (2014, neutral): “Hanushek_2011 978-0-444-53444-6 00001 Personality Psychology and Economics 113 Source: Roberts et al. (2007).”
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena (2011, background): “…finds evidence that Big Five traits predict parenting style (Huver et al. 2010), satisfaction with intimate relationships (Malouff et al. 2010), and occupational choice and satisfaction (Borghans et al. 2008, Hogan & Holland 2003, Ozer & Benet-Martı́nez 2006, Roberts et al. 2007, Salgado 1997).”
Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits (2020, background): “…scientific value of personality traits is often said to hinge on their predictive power for important life outcomes (Ozer & Benet-Martínez, 2006; Roberts et al., 2007; Soto, 2019), it may come as a surprise that this power and ways of maximizing it have rarely been directly assessed in…”
Personality and marital surplus (2012, background): “Recent reviews by Roberts et al. (2007) and Ozer and Benet-Martinez (2006), however, emphasize the ability of personality traits to predict important life outcomes, including health and happiness, the quality of peer and romantic relationships, and occupational choice.”
Identification of the healthy neurotic: Personality traits predict smoking after disease onset (2015, background): “Individuals high in neuroticism, on the other hand, are at greater risk for developing illness and have shorter life spans (Hampson, 2012; Roberts et al., 2007).”