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MOTIV Personality Trait Descriptions
Conventional
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Motivation: To follow, be true to convention/tradition Purpose: Knowledge selection Conflict: status quo/old ways vs. new ways Historic antecedent: Jungian Sensing vs. Intuition Historic example: Robert E. Lee Film example: Pleasantville Counter example: Albert Einstein |
| Characteristics: values maintaining over innovating, values the status quo over revolution, finds conformity rewarding, traditional, more simple than complex, more likely to be religious, more obedient than rebellious, more likely to conform to the opinions of those in their trusted community, sticks to the rules, values the rules, plays it safe, would rather be supported than challenged, more likely to worry about what others in their trusted community think of them, judges their own and other people's behaviors according to the norms of their trusted culture, more tangible than conceptual, avoids dangerous situations, not a risk taker, not a big fan of the arts / artistic culture, not interested in abstract or theoretical ideas, prefers the known to the unknown, likes things to stay as they are / resistant to change |
| The following items all had statistically significant factor loadings (similar to correlations) on the Conventional drive:
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Healthy items | Conventional factor score / Vital factor score |
| *for a low score assume the opposite of the above. the descriptions listed here are made up of personality items. people who scored high on this type scored higher on the above items compared to the average. (more info on construction) |