Concise Conscientiousness Measure (CCM-S)
Psychology: Personality1 sample item
About this scale
Conscientiousness means being serious about your work and putting a lot of effort into doing it in a careful way (see Cambridge Dictionary ). According to the psychologist Roberts, it "a broad personality trait describing the tendency to be self-controlled, responsible, industrious, orderly, and rule-abiding" (as quoted in from Franzen et al., 2021 ).
Sample item(s)
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Notes
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Source & citation
Franzen, P., Arens, A. K., Greiff, S., van der Westhuizen, L., Fischbach, A., Wollschläger, R., & Niepel, C. (2021). Developing and Validating a Short-Form Questionnaire for the Assessment of Seven Facets of Conscientiousness in Large-Scale Assessments. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1–15. Advance online publication. Link to journal | MacCann, C., Duckworth, A. L., & Roberts, R. D. (2009). Empirical identification of the major facets of conscientiousness. Learning and Individual Differences, 19(4) , 451–458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2009.03.007
Cambridge Dictionary
Very informative video with Brent Roberts about personality and conscientiousness
Read on Psychology Today about conscientiousness
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