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Personality has consequences. Following the emergence of and scholarly convergence around the Five-Factor Model (FFM), or Big Five, some 35 years ago, research interest in personality traits has exploded across the behavioral sciences. Meta-analyses reporting Big Five (ie, Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Openness/Intellect) relations have so proliferated that a quantitative second-order review was needed. The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct such a review. Data were gathered from an exhaustive search (through July 2016) of 167 published Big Five meta-analyses, which reported empirical relations to 712 unique correlate, behavioral, and outcome variables. A multi-hurdle selection process was used to screen variables for study inclusion, and a content-based coding procedure was used to organize variables into a set of four theoretically meaningful …