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The document discusses different views on ambition and examines the relationship between ambition and personality traits. It summarizes research finding that ambitious individuals tend to have higher levels of achievement and life satisfaction. A small pilot study was conducted with 5 ambitious participants across different careers to identify common personality traits. The 4 most common traits were perspective, love, social intelligence, and perseverance. Future research with more participants is needed to generalize the findings.

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Ambition: Personality Course

The document discusses different views on ambition and examines the relationship between ambition and personality traits. It summarizes research finding that ambitious individuals tend to have higher levels of achievement and life satisfaction. A small pilot study was conducted with 5 ambitious participants across different careers to identify common personality traits. The 4 most common traits were perspective, love, social intelligence, and perseverance. Future research with more participants is needed to generalize the findings.

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Ambition

P ERS ONA L I T Y C OURS E


NAMES: ADI GOTLIBER,

ADVA SHISGAL,

ANDREA TASENDE MARTIN

ELENA DELEGIDO JIMENEZ


Introduction

WHAT IS AMBITION? "A STRONG WISH TO ACHIEVE "AN ARDENT DESIRE FOR RANK,
SOMETHING" FAME, OR POWER".
(CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY ) (MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY)
Introduction
From Psychologist view:

➢ Ambition is a personality trait, which can be a constructive one

➢ May result from internalizing a set of goals and aspiration

➢ Could promote social progress as well as personal well-being.

(Hansson, Hogan, Johnson, & Schroeder, 1983)

From sociologist view:

➢ Ambition is a result of a parental, social or socioeconomic environment


(Sewell, Hauser, Springer, & Hauser, 2003).
Introduction
From both points of view:

➢ Ambition may predict render success in life:

➢ Longitude research found :


➢ individuals who were more ambitious as kids had higher levels of attainment
in educational and work domains
➢ Two factors that are associated with higher levels of life satisfaction and
longevity
(Judge, Kammeyer-Mueller,2012).
Introduction
From both points of view:

➢ Ambition may predict render success in life:

➢ Longitude research found :


➢ individuals who were more ambitious as kids had higher levels of attainment
in educational and work domains
➢ Two factors that are associated with higher levels of life satisfaction and
longevity
(Judge, Kammeyer-Mueller,2012).
Introduction

Currently, personality psychologists are


using two structural models of
If ambition can be such a good personality – the Big 5 (McCrae & John,
1992; McCrae & Costa, 1992) and the Big 6
predictor of life outcomes… HEXACO (Ashton, & Lee, 2007; Ashton,
how come it is not taken into Lee, & De Vries, 2014; Lee & Ashton,
2008) - both of those don't assess or
consideration when talking regard ambition, claiming it is because
about personality traits? the exciting models already cover the
same things that are defined by ambition
(Jones, Sherman & Hogan, 2017).
Participants:
o 5 participants
o Ages between 20-29
o Different careers
o All the participants are ambitious in
certain areas of their lives.
Methodology Materials:
o test to measure our level of ambition.
o test etamin the main personality traits.
Both test were distributed by social media
to the participants.
Methodology
Design:

Objectives: in this “pilot experiment” we wanted to find if people from different


professional fields, with high level of ambition share some main personality traits.

Hypothesis:: similar personality traits will be ranked high amongst highly ambitious
participant

Procedure:

o Scores: we scored doe to the ambition test and the personality traits test.

o we calculated how many from the high-ambition subjects had each personality traits
ambition Profession Trait 1 Trait 2 Trait 3 Trait 4 Trait 5
57% Medicine Social
Perseverance Love Perspective Honesty intelligence

52% Economy Social


Creativity Curiosity Perspective intelligence Kindness

58% Psychology Social


Love Perspective Leadership Fairness intelligence

68% Program Forgiveness Humor Perspective Perseverance Kindness

58% Musician Social


Love Perspective Hope intelligence Perseverance

Results
Results
Perspective - having ways of looking at the
world that make sense to oneself/others.
Conclusion:
4 most Love - valuing close relations with others.
common
traits Social intelligence - being aware of the
amongst motives/ feelings of others and oneself

participants Perseverance - Finishing what one starts in


spite of obstacles
Conclusion

Perspective – seeing all Love – has to do with the


sided to a problem help profession of the ambitious
overcome them easily on
the way to your goal person

Social intelligence – Perseverance – helps


has to do with the
staying focused on your
profession of the ambitious
goals and aspirations
person
Methodological problems

Small number of participants Biased ambition test results


In order to generalize from this In order to validate the correlation with
research on the population, a other personality traits we need to
higher number of participant is replicate the research on participants
with low ambition score
required
Future research suggestion

LARGER NUMBER OF PARTICIPANT CONTROL VARIABLES LIKE ACADEMIC REPLICATE THIS RESEARCH (ON A
BACKGROUND, PROFESSION, GENDER, LARGER SCALE) AMONGST DIFFERENT
AGE ETHNICITIES AND CULTURES TO CHECK
WHETHER THE TRAITS THAT
CORRELATES WITH AMBITION DIFFER
Ambition can render great success in
different areas of life

Research
implications Finding traits that correlates with
ambition could help us understand what
fields we can strengthen in children in
order to raise their level of ambition
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