Personality correlates of key roles in informal advice networks

Battistoni, Elisa; Colladon, Andrea Fronzetti

doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2014.05.007

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“…Some individuals showed network features of high influencers. These were high degree centrality (the number of connections that an individual has) and betweeness centrality (the number of bridges an individual completes between others) which is associated with the ability to control information flow 13…”

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Diffusion of knowledge and behaviours among trainee doctors in an acute medical unit and implications for quality improvement work: a mixed methods social network analysis

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ObjectivesTo describe the social networks that diffuse knowledge, attitudes and behaviours relating to different domains of practice within teams of trainee doctors in an acute hospital medical setting. The domains examined were ‘clinical-technical’, ‘patient centredness’ and ‘organisation of work’.DesignSequential mixed methods: (i) sociocentric survey of trainee consisting of questions about which colleagues are emulated or looked to for advice, with construction of social network maps, followed by (ii) semi-structured interviews regarding peer-to-peer influence, analysed using a grounded theory approach. The study took place over 24 months.SettingAn acute medical admissions unit, which receives admissions from the emergency department and primary care, in a National Health Service England teaching hospital.ParticipantsTrainee medical doctors working in five consecutive rotational teams. Surveys were done by 39 trainee doctors; then 15 different participants from a maximal diversity sample were interviewed.ResultsClinical-technical behaviours spread in a dense network with rich horizontal peer-to-peer connections. Patient-centred behaviours spread in a sparse network. Approaches to non-patient facing work are seldom copied from colleagues. Highly influential individuals for clinical technical memes were identified; high influencers were not identified for the other domains.ConclusionInformation and influence relating to different aspects of practice have different patterns of spread within teams of trainee doctors; highly influential individuals were important only for spread of clinical-technical practice. Influencers have particular characteristics, and this knowledge could guide leaders and teachers.

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Diffusion of knowledge and behaviours among trainee doctors in an acute medical unit and implications for quality improvement work: a mixed methods social network analysis

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“…Learning style is also often confused with personality (e.g. Athota and O'Connor 2014;Battistoni and Colladon 2014) a broader concept used to define an individual's personal, emotional and/or behavioural traits in a general way which is not confined to learning (Ehrman 2008). And yet another concept with which learning style is often confused is that of cognitive style (e.g.…”

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Styles and Style-Stretching: How are They Related to Successful Learning?

Griffiths

İnceçay

2015

J Psycholinguist Res

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Although the learning style construct has aroused much interest over the years, questions remain regarding basic issues such as definition, the validity and/or reliability of various measurement instruments, and the relationship between learning style and successful learning. Furthermore, although maintaining stylistic flexibility is recommended by many authors, few studies have attempted to relate the style-stretching concept to successful learning. This study therefore attempted to address these questions. According to results, conducted among 106 Turkish university students, using an original instrument constructed using elements from established questionnaires, a small group of styles was significantly correlated with exam results, accounting for about a quarter of the variance (considered a large effect size in social science). In addition, higher-scoring students reported a more eclectic range of styles, suggesting more willingness to style-stretch, while lower-scoring students reported a more limited range. Pedagogical implications as well as areas for ongoing research are suggested.

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“…Researchers have long been interested in the relation between entrepreneurship and creativity (Whiting, 1988). Recent studies 3 have emphasized the benefits of bringing many areas of specialized knowledge together to promote creativity (e.g., Battistoni and Fronzetti Colladon, 2014;Demsetz, 1988). Allen et al (2016) demonstrated that a more dynamic communication style and more diverse social ties are beneficial to innovation.…”

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What Makes You Popular: Beauty, Personality or Intelligence?

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Grippa

Battistoni

et al. 2018

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This study explores the determinants of popularity within friendship and advice networks.We involved almost two hundreds college students in an experiment to predict how personality traits, self-monitoring, creativity, intelligence, energy, and beauty influence the development of friendship and advice networks. Our results indicate that physical attractiveness is key to develop both friendship and task-related interactions, whereas perceived intelligence and creativity play an important role in the advice network. Our findings seem to support the idea that there might be a kernel of truth in the stereotype that attractiveness correlates with positive social traits and successful outcomes.The paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we review the literature on the main determinants of popularity and then we present the hypotheses ( §2). After describing how data was collected and variables measured ( §3), we present the results of the analyses ( §4). We conclude by discussing the main implications of the findings, the limitations of our study, and important topics for future research ( §5 and §6). Homophily and Determinants of PopularityPsychological studies in the area of social cognition (Fiske et al., 2006) suggest that human social perception is influenced by two main factors: liking, which captures traits like friendliness and sociability; and respecting, which captures factors like intelligence, competence, and efficiency. More recent research gave evidence to the possible interdependence of friendship and advice-related interactions between individuals (Kilduff, 1990;Snijders et al., 2013). For example, Snijders et al. (2013) suggested that in the advice network homophily, defined as the individuals' tendency to choose to connect with others exhibiting similar attributes, is mediated by friendship relations which are influenced by mutual attraction. Similarly, in our study we focus on the co-evolution of friendship and advice relationships, taking into account the way they influence one another.We define the advice network as a set of "relations through which individuals share resources such as information, assistance, and guidance" (Sparrowe et al., 2001, p.317). The friendship network is defined by the ties of affection and companionship that connect individuals (Baldwin et al., 1997). We rely on the methodologies and techniques of social network analysis to operationalize individual's centrality within a network (Wasserman and Faust, 1994). There

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Personality correlates of key roles in informal advice networks

Cited by 22 publications

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Diffusion of knowledge and behaviours among trainee doctors in an acute medical unit and implications for quality improvement work: a mixed methods social network analysis

Diffusion of knowledge and behaviours among trainee doctors in an acute medical unit and implications for quality improvement work: a mixed methods social network analysis

Styles and Style-Stretching: How are They Related to Successful Learning?

What Makes You Popular: Beauty, Personality or Intelligence?

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