The relationship of personal characteristics and dispositional greed

Authors

  • Svetlana M. Shirko Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

dispositional greed, monetary behaviour, stable motivation, personal characteristics

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of greed as a stable personality trait and motivation. The relevance of the study of personal factors in the context of the study of dispositional greed is substantiated. Insatiability, avarice, possessiveness, envy, egoism, materialism, neuroticism, psychoticism are considered as psychological characteristics of greed as a stable motivation. The correlation analysis revealed the nature of the relationship between personal characteristics and dispositional greed of men and women.

Author Biography

  • Svetlana M. Shirko, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    senior lecturer at the department of social and organisational psychology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

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2023-01-18

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No. 1 (2023): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology

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Shirko, S.M. 2023. The relationship of personal characteristics and dispositional greed. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology. 1 (Jan. 2023), 117–124.