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Conscientious Personality Type
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Conscientious individuals are people of strong moral principle and absolute certainty. They are most concerned with getting the job done and getting it done right. They are loyal, hardworking, and achievement oriented. The primary Conscientious traits are hard work, prudence, and conventionality. The Conscientious person loves to work, thrives on challenge, and is bound for success (Oldham and Morris, pg. 62).
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Conscientious
Definition: Governed by or accomplished according to conscience, scrupulous; thorough and painstaking.
Synonyms: careful, honest, honorable, just, meticulous, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, upright.
Analogous: accurate, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, ethical, exact, fastidious, finicky, foresighted, moral, nice, particular, precise, provident, prudent, punctilious, righteous, rigid, strict, studied, virtuous, wary.
Character Strengths and Virtues
Industry, diligence. Scrupulousness, conscientiousness, dutifulness, responsibility, idealism, high-mindedness. Deliberateness, judiciousness, rationality, logicality, sensibility. Having high standards; trying to be complete, perfect; radical, persistent, thorough, thoroughgoing. Perseverance, tenacity, steadiness, firmness. Orderliness, tidiness, cleanliness, meticulousness. Prudence, self-control, self-restraint, carefulness, cautiousness, discipline. Frugality, thriftiness, saving, conserving.
Traits or Behaviors
Industriousness and productivity, conscientiousness, correctness, perfectionism, perseverance, orderliness and meticulousness, prudence, accumulativeness.
Likes
Achievement, control, criticalness, details, directing, disapproving, doing better and trying harder, doing things one's own way, doing things right, evaluating others' performances, high standards, knowing what's best, order, orderliness, perfection, perfectionistic standards, punishing, pushing oneself and others, respect from others, responsibility, rules, shoulds, systems.
Dislikes
Being casual, being incompetent, being irresponsible, being overwhelmed, being self-indulgent, being unable to function, disorganization, disorientation, disrespect, failure to achieve, flaws or defects in performance, helplessness, imperfection, imperfections, lack of control, mistakes, substandard performance, weaknesses.
Noteworthy Examples
Bill Bradley, Jerry Brown, Anita Bryant, William F. Buckley, Karen Carpenter, Richard Carpenter, Noam Chomsky, Mario Cuomo, Jane Fonda, Geraldine Ferraro, Erich Fromm, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Al Gore, Charles Grodin, George Harrison, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson, Pope John Paul II, Bobby Knight, C. S. Lewis, Ignatius Loyola, Cotton Mather, John McLaughlin, Thomas More, Ralph Nader, Martha C. Nussbaum, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ayn Rand, Carl Rogers, Carl Sagan, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Gloria Steinem, Martha Stewart, Margaret Thatcher, George F. Will, Woodrow Wilson.
John M. Oldham and Lois B. Morris (1995). The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do. New York: Bantam.
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