Effect Of Personality (Big Five Personality) To Multitasking

摘要

Humans perform daily activities, in resolving some activities, people can do multiple task in the same general time period by engaging in frequent switches between individual tasks that is called multitasking. The preference of a person to perform multitasking is called polychronicity. One of the factors that play a role in behavior is a personality, such as the Big Five Personality. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Five Personality Dimensions of the Big Five Personality to multitasking. The method used is quantitative research with the type of causal comparative research. The subjects of this study were 100 lecturers from UMM and sampling method using quota sampling. The instrument used was the Big Five Personality Inventory and Multitasking Questionnaire. Test data using Ordinal Regression Analysis. The results show that the contribution of personality based on the value is Nagelkerke coefficient amount of 14.4%, while 85.6% comes from other factors. The dimensions of Big Five Personality Factor such as extraversion, conscientiousness, openness and neuroticism are not significant effects on multitasking.