Participants then completed personality questionnaires; researchers used the Buss Perry Aggression Questionnaire, which measures trait aggression, and the Big Five Inventory, which measures conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion.
Drive can be assessed by standardized tests that measure conscientiousness, achievement motivation, and ambition.
It is also possible that applicants to medical schools could fake the desired personality traits at interview but use of a CI model would measure actual conscientiousness longitudinally and not just that displayed on a single occasion.
The collection of CI points producing a scalar measure of conscientiousness provides a situated measure of this behaviour in the context of the early stages of study in undergraduate medicine.
Participants were also able to fake an IAT measure of Extraversion, but were unable to fake an IAT measure of Conscientiousness or predict how they represented themselves on either IAT measure.
Our findings in this paper demonstrate that conscientious behaviour in medical students, as measured by using a conscientiousness index, does not significantly change from year 1 to year 2 of studies suggesting that the CI is measuring the stable trait of conscientiousness and is not modified by teaching.
CONSC= Conscientiousness, measured as a dummy (1 for individuals who are always highly motivated to accomplish a goal and 0 otherwise).
Hampson et al. (2007) find that Extraversion, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, measured during childhood, predict self-rated health and healthy behaviours in midlife.
Self-perceived conscientiousness, measured as a continuous index, was estimated through ordinary least squares.
The other, more encouraging version, is that SJTs measure aspects of professionalism different from those measured by the Conscientiousness Index.
One widely used questionnaire of this model is the NEO-PI-R [ 7], which measures Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience and Neuroticism.
