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 expl...

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Published in:Personality and individual differences 2021-07, Vol.176, p.110775, Article 110775
Main Authors: Urbig, Diemo, Bönte, Werner, Schmutzler, Jana, Curcio, Andrés Felipe Zambrano, Andonova, Veneta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agreeableness
Competitiveness
Desire to win
Emotionality
Enjoyment of competition
Extraversion
Gender
Gender differences
Honesty
Personal development
Personal development competitiveness
Personality
Personality tests
Survey
Thresholds
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110775