Diverging associations of dimensions of competitiveness with gender and personality
- More attention must be paid to the multidimensional nature of competitiveness to better understand how competitiveness relates to personality and gender. We focus on three dimensions: Desire to Win (DW), Personal Development competitiveness (PD), and Enjoyment of Competition (EC). Our empirical exploratory analysis is based on a large sample of 1520 individuals. We control for interdimensional correlations, correct for multiple testing, and use conservative thresholds to provide robust evidence on dimension-specific associations of competitiveness with personality, operationalized via the HEXACO framework, and gender. Independent of the respectively other competitiveness dimensions, DW relates to less honesty-humility and less agreeableness, PD to more emotionality, and EC to more extraversion and less emotionality. EC is the sole source of gender differences among the correlated competitiveness dimensions.
Author: | Diemo UrbigORCiD, Werner Bönte, Jana Schmutzler, Andrés Felipe Zambrano-Curcio, Veneta Andonova |
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URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886921001501 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110775 |
ISSN: | 0191-8869 |
Title of the source (English): | Personality and Individual Differences |
Document Type: | Scientific journal article peer-reviewed |
Language: | English |
Year of publication: | 2021 |
Tag: | Competitiveness; Desire to win; Enjoyment of competition; Gender; Personal development competitiveness; Personality; Survey |
Volume/Year: | 176 |
Number of pages: | 6 |
Article number: | 110775 |
Faculty/Chair: | Fakultät 5 Wirtschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft / FG ABWL, insbesondere empirische Unternehmensforschung und Transformation |