Resumen de Relation between personality traits and imaginative capability of engineering students
Ju-Sen Lin, Chao-Tung Liang, Wen-Shan Chang, Chaoyun Liang
In this study, we examined the curvilinear effects of personality traits on the imaginative capability of engineering students.The participants in this study consisted of 503 engineering majors. The results indicated that all of the traits assessedexhibited various curvilinear relationships with imaginative capability, except for ‘extraversion’, which exhibited only adirect effect on initiating imagination. A curvilinear effect of ‘openness’ for an inverted U-shaped relationship influencedconceiving imagination. ‘Neuroticism’ exhibited direct and curvilinear relationships for an inverted U-form withconceiving imagination. ‘Conscientiousness’ exhibited direct and curvilinear effects and an inverted U-shaped relationshipwith conceiving imagination. In addition, conceiving imagination increased with the ‘agreeableness’ score, and theirassociation revealed a U-shaped curvilinear relationship. The results of this study are pivotal for student selection andguidance, and crucial for the pre-employment assessments of people seeking jobs in the engineering field.
