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| the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others |
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| enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior |
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| a personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive |
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| a personality dimension that describes someone who is good-natured, cooperative, and trusting |
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| a personality dimension that describes soneone who is responsible, dependable, persistent and organized |
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| a personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed and insecure (negative). |
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| a personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiousity |
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| degree to which individuals like or dislike themselves, whether they see themselves as capable and effective, and whether they feel they are in control of their environment or powerless over their environment |
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| individuals' degree of liking or disliking themselves and the degree to which they think they are worthy or unworthy as a person |
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| the degree to which people believe that they are masters of their own fate |
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| individuals who believe that they control what happens to them |
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| individuals who believe that what happens to them is controlled by outside forces such as luck or chance |
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| degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means |
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| the tendency to be arrogant, have a gradiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration and have a sense of entitlement |
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| a personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors |
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| aggressive involvement in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time and if necessary, against the opposing efforts of other things or other people |
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| Type A personality traits |
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1. always moving, walking or eating rapidly
2. feel impatient with the rate at which most things take place
3. strive to think or do two or more things at once
4. cannot cope with leisure time
5. are obsessed with numbers, measuring their success in terms of how many or how much of everything they acquire |
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| Type B personality traits |
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1. never suffer from a sense of time urgency with its accompanying impatience
2. feel no need to display or discuss either their acheivements or accomplishements unless such exposure is demanded by the situation
3. play for fun and relaxation, rather than to exhibit their superiority at any cost
4. can relax without guilt |
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| people who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs |
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| basic convictions about right and wrong |
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| a hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity |
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| desirable end-states of existence, the goals that a person would like to acheive during his or her lifetime |
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| preferable modes of behavior or means of acheiving one's terminal values |
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| a national culture attribute describing the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally |
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| the degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of a group |
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| a tight social framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to look after them and protect them |
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| the culture favors traditional masculine work roles of acheivement, power, and control. Societal values are characteristized by assertivenss and materialism. |
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| little differentiation between male and female roles |
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| describing the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambigious situations and tries to avoid them |
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| a national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift and persistence |
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| a national culture attribute that emphasizes the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfilling social obligations |
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| identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational enviroment determines satisfaction and turnover |
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