Right Match: Personality Valuted Competitive Attitude

Not everyone gives the same answer to the question of how much they enjoy competition. When matching someone with a job requiring strong competitive attitude, analyzing his personality can be a good starting point. By using data obtained from a real working environment, this paper can provide readers a clear understanding of the relationship between one’s personality and competitive attitude. Results demonstrate that of these five personality dimensions, extraversion and conscientiousness show strong positive relationship with one’s competitive attitude. Agreeableness and neuroticism, on the contrary, have negatively associated with one’s attitude towards competition. Openness, however, has no clear relationship with one’s competitive attitude. Further, the impact of age, gender and education has also been tested in this paper. Males, on average, show stronger preference to competition than females. And education also casts a significantly positive impact. However, age fails to reflect a clear relationship