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Revision as of 18:48, August 11, 2025
Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being thorough, careful, consistent, vigilant and self-disciplined. Conscientiousness is positively correlated to a desire to perform a task well. Conscientious people are highly efficient and organized. They also exhibit: achievement oriented behavior; planning skills; organizational skills; and dependability.
Conscientiousness is one of the Big Five personality traits. Generally speaking, conscientious individuals have a strong work ethic and are reliable.
Research indicates that the character trait of conscientiousness can be increased through simply practicing conscientious behaviors.[1]
The personality traits of a good diplomat are: conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness, and extraversion.[2]
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).[3][4]
Developing conscientiousness
Articles and videos:
- How to Be Conscientious
- Becoming More Conscientious, Harvard Business Review, 2018
- How To Develop A More Conscientious Personality
- How to be more conscientious
- The troubling decline in conscientiousness, 2025
- How to increase conscientiousness, AI
- How to quickly increase conscientiousness, AI
Videos:
- How to increase conscientiousness - video playlist, Video playlist
Journal articles
- Going beyond conscientiousness to task pursuit orientation: Exploring an individual difference variable with potential implications for professional achievement and remote work by Sanjay T. Menon, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, Volume 13, March 2024, 100357
Swearing is negatively correlated with conscientiousness, agreeableness and religiosity.[5] See also: Atheism and profanity
See also
- Achievement orientation
- Neoroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality
- Personality disorder
External links
Video:
- Conscientiousness, video playlist
References
- ↑ How To Develop A More Conscientious Personality, PsyBlog
- ↑ Traits of a successful diplomat, The Diplomat website
- ↑ This Personality Trait Predicts Success, Business Insider, 2014
- ↑ Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter
- ↑ The Science of Swearing By Timothy Jay and Kristin Janschewitz, Association for Psychological Science