SynthesisIndustrial health2022
Association between the five-factor model of personality and work engagement: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Industrial health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Enhanced work engagement in Japanese employees following a 12-day online gratitude journal intervention.BMC psychology · 2025Trial
- Thriving at Work and Associated Factors Among Nurses at a Chinese Stomatological Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- Personality is predictive of burnout but not of work engagement: A one-year prospective cohort study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Burnout among anesthesia personnel in Thailand: A national survey of workload, personality traits, and resilience.PloS one · 2026Article
- The Moderating Role of the Five-Factor Model of Personality in the Relationship between Job Demands/Resources and Work Engagement: An Online Cross-Sectional Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- An Investigation of the Relationship between Personality, Cognitive Ability, and Work Engagement in Intellectually Gifted Individuals.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
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Abstract
The purposes of this meta-analysis were (1) to examine the associations between work engagement (WE) and the personality dimensions of five-factor model and (2) to determine how much variance in WE is explained by these five factors. We performed a database search for studies related to personality traits and WE, and 36 papers that reported correlation coefficients were selected for the meta-analysis. After correcting for publication bias using the trim-and-fill method, conscientiousness had the strongest association with WE (ρ=0.41), followed by extraversion and openness to experience (0.38), neuroticism (-0.36), and agreeableness (0.27). Moreover, 30% of the WE variance could be explained by the five-factor model (R
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