The personality basis of justice: The five‐factor model as an integrative model of personality and procedural fairness effects on cooperation |
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| Authors: | Alain Van Hiel David De Cremer Jeroen Stouten |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Developmental Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;2. Department of Psychology, Center of Justice and Social Decision Making, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;3. Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Tiensestraat, Leuven, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Building upon the self‐based model of cooperation (De Cremer & Tyler, 2005 ), the present study investigates the relationship between the five‐factor model (FFM) and cooperation. Study 1 (N = 56), an experiment conducted in the laboratory, and Study 2 (N = 116), a field study conducted in an organisational context, yielded a moderator effect between neuroticism and procedural fairness in explaining cooperation. Study 3 (N = 177) showed that this moderator effect was mediated by the self‐uncertainty and relational variables proposed by the self‐based model of cooperation. It is concluded that the FFM is useful in explaining cooperation and contributes to a better understanding of (procedural) fairness effects. Moreover, the necessity to build integrative, multi‐level models that combine core and surface aspects of personality to explain the effects of fairness on cooperation is elaborated upon. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | personality scales and inventories organisational psychology social groups |
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