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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).

Contents 1 Conscientious 2 Character Strengths and Virtues 3 Traits and Behaviors 4 Work 4.1 Management Style 4.2 Careers 5 Self 6 Emotions 7 Self-Control 8 Real World 9 Relationships 9.1 Parenting 9.2 Good/Bad Matches 10 Likes 11 Dislikes 12 Noteworthy Examples 13 References

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

1. Industry, diligence.
2. Scrupulousness, conscientiousness, dutifulness, responsibility, idealism, high-mindedness.
3. Deliberateness, judiciousness, rationality, logicality, sensibility.
4. Having high standards; trying to be complete, perfect; radical, persistent, thorough, thoroughgoing.
5. Perseverance, tenacity, steadiness, firmness.
6. Orderliness, tidiness, cleanliness, meticulousness.
7. Prudence, self-control, self-restraint, carefulness, cautiousness, discipline.
8. Frugality, thriftiness, saving, conserving.

Traits and Behaviors

Industriousness and productivity, conscientiousness, correctness, perfectionism, perseverance, orderliness and meticulousness, prudence, accumulativeness.

Work

Management Style

Careers

Self

Emotions

Self-Control

Real World

Relationships

Parenting

Good/Bad Matches

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.

References

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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