Developed two scales to examine the relationship between personality and performance of residential child care workers. The first scale differentiated child care workers from the general population, the second "most effective" from "least effective" child care worker incumbents. Personality characteristics proved to be better…

Investigates the relationship of personality characteristics to organizational withdrawal and tests the Porter and Steers "polar" hypothesis, i.e., employees with high levels of emotional instability, anxiety, achievement orientation, aggression, independence, self-confidence and sociability were more apt to withdraw from organizations…