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Understanding how occupational therapists' personality and character traits influence research engagement is crucial to designing effective research capacity building strategies. This study aimed to identify and compare personality and character traits of occupational therapy researchers and non\u2010researchers across Australia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>An exploratory cross\u2010sectional study was conducted using modified versions of the Honesty\u2010Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience Personality Inventory\u2010Revised\u201060 (HEXACO\u2010PI\u2010R\u201060) and the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths\u201072 (VIA\u2010IS\u201072) questionnaires. Differences in personality and character traits between researchers and non\u2010researchers and correlations with research engagement were explored. Factor analysis was used to test the psychometric properties of the modified questionnaires.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Forty\u2010seven researchers and 78 non\u2010researchers participated in the online survey. There were significant differences between groups for traits of love of learning (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.01), curiosity (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.03), and creativity (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.02). These traits were significantly associated with research engagement. Participants in the non\u2010researcher group scored higher for traits of perfectionism and organisation; however, the results were not statistically significant. Factor analysis demonstrated that the modified personality questionnaires achieved similar psychometric properties and factor matrixes compared to the original versions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Occupational therapists' research engagement is influenced by their personality and character traits, specifically love of learning, curiosity, and creativity. It is, therefore, imperative to consider intrinsic values when developing future research capacity building strategies to increase research engagement and support professional practice.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Consumer and Community Involvement<\/jats:title><jats:p>Clinicians were involved in the development stage with five clinicians providing feedback on the survey tool.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY<\/jats:title><jats:p>Research is like being a detective. You start with something you want to learn more about, or a problem you want to solve, like a mystery. Researchers uncover new knowledge through gathering clues, people's opinions, and other types of information. They put it all together to find answers. Clinical research can help health professionals, like occupational therapists, find answers to understand the types of treatments that will help their clients the most. The issue is, many occupational therapists do not know how to do research and often do not do it. In our study, we wanted to understand why this is. We found out that if an occupational therapist has a love of learning, curiosity, and creativity, they are more likely to be interested in doing research. We plan to use our findings to develop research strategies that can help occupational therapists undertake more research, because research and new knowledge helps the therapist, their workplace and their clients. In the future, we aim to design research activities that engage therapists' love of learning, curiosity, and creativity. 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