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Lounsbury, John W.; Smith, Ryan M.; Levy, Jacob J.; Leong, Frederick T.; Gibson, Lucy W. – Journal of Education for Business, 2009
Using data from 347 undergraduate business majors and 2,252 nonbusiness majors at a large Southeastern university, the authors drew on J. L. Holland's (1985) vocational theory and investigated whether the 2 groups differed on the Big Five model of personality (B. De Raad, 2000; agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Majors (Students), Relationship, Personality Traits
Taylor, Sarah E.; Scepansky, James A.; Lounsbury, John W.; Gibson, Lucy W. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2010
Personality traits of coeducational students have been shown to correlate with early withdrawal intention from college (Lounsbury, Saudargas, & Gibson, 2004). The current study investigated the relationship between the Big Five personality traits as well as seven narrow personality traits in relation to withdrawal intention among 103 female…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Females, Intention, Womens Education
Lounsbury, John W.; Levy, Levy J.; Park, Soo-Hee; Gibson, Lucy W.; Smith, Ryan – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Based on samples of 398 middle school students, 568 high school students, and 1159 college students, self-directed learning was found to be related to cumulative grade-point-average at all levels as well as to Big Five personality traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Extraversion), narrow personality traits (Optimism,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, College Students, Vocational Interests, Construct Validity
Loveland, James M.; Lounsbury, John W.; Welsh, Deborah; Buboltz, Walter C. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: Aggression has a long history in academic research as both a criterion and a predictor variable and it is well documented that aggression is related to a variety of poor academic outcomes such as: lowered academic performance, absenteeism and lower graduation rates. However, recent research has implicated physical aggression as being…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Gender Differences, Predictor Variables, Aggression
Logue, Christen T.; Lounsbury, John W.; Gupta, Arpana; Leong, Frederick T. L. – Journal of Career Development, 2007
Based on 164 undergraduate business majors, we examined the relationship between satisfaction with major and Holland's vocational interests and with the Big Five and narrow personality traits. Contrary to our hypothesis, enterprising scores were unrelated to major satisfaction. As hypothesized, using ipsative and normative scores, investigative,…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Personality Traits, Vocational Interests, Assertiveness

Lounsbury, John W.; Loveland, James M.; Sundstrom, Eric D.; Gibson, Lucy W.; Drost, Adam W.; Hamrick, Frances L. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2003
Personality traits related to career satisfaction for 5,932 individuals were measured for the group and in 14 occupations. Traits related to satisfaction across occupations were emotional resilience, optimism, and work drive. The Big Five traits of conscientiousness, extraversion, and openness were also correlated with career satisfaction.…
Descriptors: Career Change, Emotional Intelligence, Job Satisfaction, Models
Lounsbury, John W.; Saudargas, Richard A.; Gibson, Lucy W.; Leong, Frederick T. – Research in Higher Education, 2005
Based on a sample of 532 undergraduates at a Southeastern U.S. university, Big Five and narrow personality traits were examined in relation to a measure of satisfaction with specific domains of college experience (College Satisfaction) and a measure of General Life Satisfaction. Four of the Big Five traits--Agreeableness, Conscientiousness,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students, Life Satisfaction, Student Experience

Lounsbury, John W.; Tatum, Holly E.; Chambers, Wendy; Owens, Kim S.; Gibson, Lucy W. – College Student Journal, 1999
Examination of "big five" personality constructs as related to career choice in 249 undergraduate students found that career decidedness was positively and significantly related to life satisfaction, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and negatively related to neuroticism. Findings are discussed in relation to construct validation of career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Choice, Higher Education, Life Satisfaction
Lounsbury, John W.; Hutchens, Teresa; Loveland, James M. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2005
Big Five personality traits were analyzed in relation to career decidedness among adolescents in middle and high school. Participants were 248 7th-grade, 321 10th-grade, and 282 12th-grade students. As hypothesized, Conscientiousness was positively and significantly correlated with career decidedness in all three grades. Openness and Agreeableness…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Assessment, Early Adolescents, Career Development
Williamson, Jeanine M.; Pemberton, Anne E.; Lounsbury, John W. – Library Quarterly, 2005
This study collected data on personality characteristics, job satisfaction, and career satisfaction from more than 1,300 information professionals. Respondents included academic reference librarians, archivists, catalogers, distance education librarians, public librarians, records managers, school media specialists, special librarians, systems…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Job Satisfaction, Libraries, Media Specialists