The power of personality: The comparative validity of personality traits, socioeconomic status, and cognitive ability for predicting important life outcomes
Roberts, Kuncel, Shiner, Caspi and Goldberg, Perspectives on Psychological Science 2(4), 2007, 313-345. Compared personality traits, socioeconomic status and cognitive ability as predictors of mortality, divorce and occupational attainment using prospective longitudinal studies, favouring those controlling for background factors. Personality effects were indistinguishable from those of the other two.
Roberts, Kuncel, Shiner, Caspi and Goldberg, Perspectives on Psychological Science 2(4), 2007, 313-345. Compared personality traits, socioeconomic status and cognitive ability as predictors of mortality, divorce and occupational attainment using prospective longitudinal studies, favouring those controlling for background factors. Personality effects were indistinguishable from those of the other two.
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Roberts, B. W., Kuncel, N. R., Shiner, R., Caspi, A., & Goldberg, L. R. (2007). The power of personality: The comparative validity of personality traits, socioeconomic status, and cognitive ability for predicting important life outcomes. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(4), 313-345. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00047.x https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00047.x