For over a hundred years, psychologists have sought to understand the role of spirituality in human behavior and experience, and how it might relate to features of personality. This study considered personal narration of spiritual experience and how it relates to the personality traits of Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion,...
This dissertation investigates two ways in which personality psychology should move beyond the traditional approach of measuring personality with broad domains composed of trait descriptors, as exemplified by the Big Five taxonomy. The first study (Chapter 2) suggests an alternative to the traditional approach of aggregating personality items into domains....
The study of employee engagement and its consequences in the workplace has gained traction in the business world over the past decade, with dramatic claims of the direct consequences of engagement including lower absenteeism, higher sales, improved productivity, and increased profitability for organizations that are more engaged (The Gallup Organization,...