Are you a good team player?

A special trait gives it away

Created: 05/18/2022, 08:31

“Tolerance” is not equally pronounced in all people.

According to US researchers, this is also an important personality trait at work.

You may have been asked about your character traits

in an

Perhaps less popular is the question of "tolerance"?

However, the answer to this could be an indication of how you typically act in a team at work.

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reported, a study published in February in the "Personality and Social Psychology Review" dealt specifically with this trait.

The two US researchers Michael Wilmot and Deniz Ones evaluated data from almost 4,000 studies with a total of more than 1.9 million participants.

report, they came to the conclusion that people “in whom the character trait of compatibility is particularly pronounced” are more successful in professional and private life

.

Are you a team player at work?

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The more tolerable, the more successful?

Study by Wilmot and Ones in Conversation

Wilmot and Ones therefore analyzed which specific characteristics characterize “tolerable” people – and make them so successful.

"According to this,

,

,

,

commitment ,

orientation ,

and

are particularly promising," says an article in the magazine "taff" (ProSieben) on the occasion of the study.

Above all, according to the two researchers, a high level of tolerability is “characterized by a

commitment”, as stated in the article on

further means.

"The best way for tolerant people to direct this effort is to help and cooperate with others."

psychology at work

Psychology naturally plays a role in many areas of professional life.

Sometimes it is simply behavior or body language that connoisseurs want to interpret accordingly.

For example, when it comes to whether the boss likes someone or not.

You can also find out here which indications, according to career experts, can indicate that an employee is not particularly popular with his or her colleagues.