TY - JOUR T1 - The Relation Between Supervisors' Big Five Personality Traits and Employees' Experiences of Abusive Supervision. AU - Camps,Jeroen, AU - Stouten,Jeroen, AU - Euwema,Martin, Y1 - 2016/02/10/ PY - 2015/07/24/received PY - 2016/01/20/accepted PY - 2016/2/24/entrez PY - 2016/2/24/pubmed PY - 2016/2/24/medline KW - Big Five personality traits KW - FFM KW - abusive supervision KW - leadership KW - perceived supervisor mistreatment SP - 112 EP - 112 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 7 N2 - The present study investigates the relation between supervisors' personality traits and employees' experiences of supervisory abuse, an area that - to date - remained largely unexplored in previous research. Field data collected from 103 supervisor-subordinate dyads showed that contrary to our expectations supervisors' agreeableness and neuroticism were not significantly related to abusive supervision, nor were supervisors' extraversion or openness to experience. Interestingly, however, our findings revealed a positive relation between supervisors' conscientiousness and abusive supervision. That is, supervisors high in conscientiousness were more likely to be perceived as an abusive supervisor by their employees. Overall, our findings do suggest that supervisors' Big Five personality traits explain only a limited amount of the variability in employees' experiences of abusive supervision. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/26903919/The_Relation_Between_Supervisors'_Big_Five_Personality_Traits_and_Employees'_Experiences_of_Abusive_Supervision_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -