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[HerbalistRanger]

What does personality mean when assigning dwarves to military/work/nobles/Missions/.... What do you look for? What has the greatest impact?
It's all very confusing to me.
 One of my best military dwarves abhors skills in weapons and those that pursue mastery of fighting. He has a preference for his artifact silver spear though. Maybe it's that he believes those that sacrifice for others should be deeply respected overrides his feelings towards military skills. He felt satisfied having sparred and remembering learning dodging, fighting and striking.

Is there any concrete knowledge on impacts of personality and preferences? What does it mean to value or loath sacrifice? A dwarf that loaths/likes perseverence? Values cooperation?

From my guessing I assign - Values cunning to military commanders, mechanics, scholars, nobles. Values nature or wants to see the world to hunters and solo mission/artifacts. Introspection to scholars.

What are your thoughts about personality? I want to know what you guys think even if it has nothing to do with what I wrote. Will add more as I play. Hopefully people have an interest and I learn more from this thread. I've played for years and searched but personality still feels abstract.

[Fleeting Frames]

Personality and values impacts fair few things. To name a few:

What needs the creature has. Dwarven civs all have same culture, so these are relatively stable.

Whether they will make friends, romance someone and marry them (beyond their orientation, that is). I look for how much they value friendship, romance and family as well as how friendly, obsessive and lustful they are in particular, but this is mere surface interpretation that doesn't consider how well units' personalities match - grudge is obvious, but there's bit of emotional room between a grudge and a lover.

What gives them happy thoughts, sad thoughts or how deeply they're affected (stress vulnerability, sacrifice, anxiety, bravery, valuing/disliking x).
An often-mentioned example is whether dwarf gets happy or bad thought at feeding patients depending on how willing to help others they are.
But this is why some dwarves in particular go nuts. You have dwarves that are perpetually dour, dwarves that get stressed easily and dwarves who get stressed easily and who are perpetually dour.

I don't think it impacts how happy they're learning/improving a particular skill, though it can impact their happiness at learning/improving any skill.
The valuation of sacrifice means they're less likely to feel unhappy about missing something they personally want for instance, iirc.

Preference that matches the job boosts job success rate, i.e. a legendary+5 carpenter producing a ⛭bed⛭ 30% of the time instead of 27%. I'm not 100% certain on whether focus impacts quality in addition to job speed, here.

How long they work without a break, supposedly.


Not a complete list; with focus, talking and thoughts I don't think there's much that isn't affected by personality in some way or another.

[Tinnucorch]

Right now the major concern about this seems to be that some dwarfs cracks after traumatic experiencies like battles, their stress levels skyrocketing and becoming insane.
To avoid this only dwarves with high levels of bravery and low levels of stress vulnerability and anxiety propensity should be enlisted in the military. You can find the science on the matter here.