Psychology Profile Conscientiousness

The mean percentile for women in a general population (women and men) is 51.5. For men it is 49.5.

Conscientiousness has two aspects:

88%– Industriousness (the ability to engage in sustained, goal-directed effort)

25%– Orderliness (the tendency to schedule, organize and systematize)

Moderately High in Conscientiousness

• Tend to slog away at a task until finished.
• Work reasonably hard and do not want to waste time.
• If a moderately conscientious person promises to do something, they will do it.
• Decisive, neat, organized, future-oriented, and reliable.
• They like to have everything in its proper place, but are not particularly obsessed with detail.
• Somewhat prone to guilt (although they organize their lives so that they have comparatively little to feel guilty about).
• More sensitive than average to shame, self-disgust and self-contempt.
• React comparatively poorly to failure.
• Committed to the idea of personal responsibility.
• Believe that hard work and diligence will and should be rewarded.
• They might micro-manage and exert too much control.