BIG 5 PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND JOB-PERFORMANCE IN ARMY AND CIVIL OCCUPATIONS - A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE

This article reports three meta-analyses on the relation between the B ig Five personality dimensions and job performance using exclusively E uropean samples. Also, the incremental validity of Conscientiousness a nd Emotional Stability over General Mental Ability is reported. The re sults show that Conscientiousness (rho =.23) and Emotional Stability ( rho=.23) generalized validity across criteria and civil and military o ccupations. The results also showed that Conscientiousness and Emotion al Stability had incremental validity and added to total validity a pe rcentage around 10% to 11%. Implications for the international general izability of validity and the practice of personnel selection are comm ented on.