Are measures of self-esteem, neuroticism, locus of control, and generalized self-efficacy indicators of a common core construct?

By T. Judge, A. Erez, J. Bono, Carl J. Thoresen. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002

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

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In Applied Psychology

1. T. Judge
2. Adam M. Grant
3. A. Hirschi
4. J. Kammeyer-Mueller
5. Russell E. Johnson
6. B. Joo
7. Sabine Sonnentag
8. Hea Jun Yoon

In Clinical Psychology

1. T. Judge
2. B. Roberts
3. A. Hirschi
4. J. Kammeyer-Mueller
5. Avshalom Caspi
6. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
7. J. Bono
8. N. Bowling

In Sociology and Political Science

1. T. Judge
2. N. Bowling
3. A. Hirschi
4. Russell E. Johnson
5. Sabine Sonnentag
6. Adam M. Grant
7. Ute R. Hülsheger
8. J. Kammeyer-Mueller

Citations in the corpus

• Internal Status Sorting in Groups: The Problem of too many Stars (2005, background): “Collectively, these traits seem to predict a cluster of self-relevant behaviors (Judge et al., 2002).”
• Doing good buffers against feeling bad: Prosocial impact compensates for negative task and self-evaluations (2010, background): “When employees hold low core self-evaluations, they evaluate their identities and capabilities negatively, lacking self-esteem, self-efficacy, internal locus of control beliefs, and emotional stability (Judge et al., 2002).”
• The effects of core self‐evaluations and transformational leadership on organizational commitment (2012, background): “Core self-evaluations refer to a higher-order concept of an individual’s selfevaluation of his or her personal characteristics (Judge et al., 2002) and capture a fundamental aspect of the self-incorporating four core individual traits: self-esteem, generalized self-efficacy, locus of control, and em”
• Conditioned Superstition: Desire for Control and Consumer Brand Preferences (2013, background): “esteem, locus of control, and neuroticism (Judge et al. 2002).”
• Performance-based self-esteem : A driving force in burnout processes and its assessment (2005, background): “8 contingent self-esteem correlates positively with anxiety and neuroticism (Judge et al., 2002; Kernis et al., 1993; Roberts et al., 1997; Watson et al., 2002).”
• Locus of Control, Web use, and Consumer Attitudes toward Internet Regulation (2003, background): “Although we demonstrate that LOC predicts Web usage behavior beyond demographics, further research should examine the effect of LOC over other related psychological variables such as self-esteem, neuroticism (Judge et al. 2002), and subjective well-being (DeNeve and Cooper 1998).”
• Perceived Parenting, Self-Esteem, and General Self-Efficacy of Iranian American Adolescents (2010, background): “General self-esteem has been recognized as an antecedent to the development of domain-specific efficacy (Bandura 1997), coping efficacy (Swensen and Prelow 2005), and general self-efficacy ( Judge et al. 2002; Schunk and Meece 2005; Zimmerman and Cleary 2005).”
• Implications of core self-evaluations for a changing organizational context (2011, background): “Erez and Judge (2001) and Judge et al. (2002) found that putting these four traits together did a better job of predicting outcomes than using the traits separately as predictors.”