A brief and sound assessment of the Big Five Personality Factors at work: The Revised Portuguese Big Five Mini-Markers
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personality, five-factor model, work thriving, validity, reliability, factor structureResumo
The Big Five Mini-Markers is a short inventory of the five factors of personality that demonstrates a high degree of psychometric robustness compared to alternative short forms. This paper revises the previous Portuguese version by focusing on the organizational context, using two independent occupational samples (n = 265 and n = 212). Furthermore, it addresses the main shortcoming of the previous version, i.e. the inclusion of only 31 personality items instead of the original English form’s 40 items. Current research efforts have extended the Portuguese version to match the length of the original form and have provided supporting evidence for its validity and reliability. Moreover, the results regarding criteria-related validity showed that the Big Five, as assessed by the revised version (Mini-Markers-P, see Appendix), account for a significant portion of the variance in thriving at work and of its subdimensions of learning and vitality. The main implications for assessing personality in the workplace are discussed.
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