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According to Science Direct:

According to Science Direct:

{{Cquote|For conscientious persons achievement orientation and goal-directedness color both their thoughts and their emotions around information seeking. Their search experience may appear rational and accompanied by fairly neutral emotions, but they may harbor a strong need to feel competent and successful. Conscientious persons are foremost focused on the goal of their search, and so their feelings are often related to reaching – or not reaching – it. If there are obstacles along the way or it takes a long time to find relevant information, they may feel frustrated. When they have solved their information need or feel they are making progress they feel happy and relieved. Conscientious persons have explained that they enjoy information interaction the most when they proceed towards completion of their search, and ‘finally find what [they] look for’, or ‘come across the perfect source’ (Heinström, forthcoming). The distinct focus of their emotions is hence on the outcome, on finding or not finding relevant information as opposed to experiencing gratification in the ongoing process of searching for it. One rational conscientious student describes her feelings in this way: ‘As long as I make progress, I feel I am making efficient use of my time. I get excited if I find exactly what I need or a perfect search term’ (Todd et al., 2005).<ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/achievement-orientation Achievement orientation]</ref>}}

{{Cquote|For conscientious persons achievement orientation and goal-directedness color both their thoughts and their emotions around information seeking. Their search experience may appear rational and accompanied by fairly neutral emotions, but they may harbor a strong need to feel competent and successful. Conscientious persons are foremost focused on the goal of their search, and so their feelings are often related to reaching – or not reaching – it. If there are obstacles along the way or it takes a long time to find relevant information, they may feel frustrated. When they have solved their information need or feel they are making progress they feel happy and relieved. Conscientious persons have explained that they enjoy information interaction the most when they proceed towards completion of their search, and ‘finally find what [they] look for’, or ‘come across the perfect source’ (Heinström, forthcoming). The distinct focus of their emotions is hence on the outcome, on finding or not finding relevant information as opposed to experiencing gratification in the ongoing process of searching for it. One rational conscientious student describes her feelings in this way: ‘As long as I make progress, I feel I am making efficient use of my time. I get excited if I find exactly what I need or a perfect search term’ (Todd et al., 2005).<ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/achievement-orientation Achievement orientation]</ref>}}

== Benefits of developing conscientiousness ==

=== Benefits of developing conscientiousness ===

The only major personality trait that consistently leads to general success in life is conscientiousness (People who test high in conscientiousness: get better grades in school and college; earn higher salaries; are happier at work; live longer; commit fewer crimes; stay married longer and tend to be more influential).<ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/conscientiousness-predicts-success-2014-4#comments This Personality Trait Predicts Success], Business Insider, 2014</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130709011823/https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dq209/publications/quercia11twitter.pdf Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter]</ref>

The only major personality trait that consistently leads to general success in life is conscientiousness (People who test high in conscientiousness: get better grades in school and college; earn higher salaries; are happier at work; live longer; commit fewer crimes; stay married longer and tend to be more influential).<ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/conscientiousness-predicts-success-2014-4#comments This Personality Trait Predicts Success], Business Insider, 2014</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130709011823/https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dq209/publications/quercia11twitter.pdf Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter]</ref>