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Further, in an unexpected finding, conscientiousness was negatively correlated with time spent looking at the eyes of fearful (r = −.44, p<.05), happy (r = −.39, p<.05), and sad (r = −.33, p<.10) faces.
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Research is now finding that there is a link between aging and personality, whereby people who possess conscientiousness and optimism live longer.
Besides finding the effect of individual characteristics on undergraduate scientific research activities engagement, we found that some of these dimensions (gender, conscientiousness, openness, and GPA) are also related to the type of extra-curricular involvement students choose, which further strengthens our findings.
In detail, we found internet addiction to be associated with heightened neuroticism and decreased extraversion and conscientiousness, supporting findings on premorbid personality factors of previous studies [ 28, 31].
In their study, four articles were found showing a small effect of 'Openness to experience' [ 21], no effect of 'Agreeableness' , Openness to experiences' [ 22, 23] or 'Extraversion' [ 24], and inconsistent findings for 'Neuroticism' and 'Conscientiousness' [ 22– 22].
The finding that job satisfaction and conscientiousness improved over the study despite most workers reporting high levels of dissatisfaction with financial rewards provides new temporal evidence pointing to the importance of non-financial factors, as most previous quantitative studies on health worker motivation are based on cross-sectional data only [ 2- 4, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18].
Both findings could be explained by conscientiousness acting as a mediator between assessment performance and professionalism ratings.
Our unexpected finding of the negative relationship between conscientiousness and attention to the eyes of emotional faces led to the investigation of a common factor between neuroticism and conscientiousness in the current sample.
Most of the associations between personality and important life outcomes in our analyses are largely in line with previous findings reported in the literature, in which conscientiousness and emotional stability, in particular, have emerged as powerful predictors of a broad range of life outcomes (Roberts et al. 2007; Ozer and Benet-Martínez 2006).
This suggests that medical students may be relatively accurate at perceiving high but not low levels of conscientiousness, in contrast to previous findings where Conscientiousness Index was associated with low but not high ratings of professionalism.
These findings confirmed the expectations; agreeableness, but not conscientiousness, was negatively related to proactive aggression.
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