Describe the Big Five personality dimension of emotional ...

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Describe the Big Five personality dimension of emotional stability and explain how it can predict behavior at work.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The two-factor theory proposes that ________.
 
  A) within every human being, there exists a hierarchy of five needs and as each of these needs becomes substantially satisfied, the next one becomes dominant
  B) employees inherently dislike work and must therefore be directed or even coerced into performing it
  C) employees can view work as being as natural as rest or play, and therefore the average person can learn to accept, and even seek, responsibility
  D) the factors that lead to job satisfaction are separate and distinct from those that lead to job dissatisfaction
  E) achievement, power, and affiliation are three important needs that help explain motivation

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Answer to Question 1

The emotional stability dimension, often labeled by its converse, neuroticism, taps a person's ability to withstand stress. People with positive emotional stability tend to be calm, self-confident, and secure. Those with high negative scores tend to be nervous, anxious, depressed, and insecure.
People who score high on emotional stability are happier than those who score low. Of the Big Five traits, emotional stability is most strongly related to life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and low stress levels. This is probably true because high scorers are more likely to be positive and optimistic in their thinking and experience fewer negative emotions. People low on emotional stability are hypervigilant (looking for problems or impending signs of danger) and are especially vulnerable to the physical and psychological effects of stress. In the work place, emotionally stable employees offer less negative thinking and fewer negative emotions. They are less hypervigilant.

Answer to Question 2

D
Explanation: D) The two-factor theory proposes that the factors that lead to job satisfaction are separate and distinct from those that lead to job dissatisfaction.