Donald Fiske's Theory Of The Big Five Theory

Through research Donald Fiske (1949) and his colleagues were able to come up with something known as the Big Five. The Big Five is made up of the basic five personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. While doing multiple studies, researchers did not being their theories about how many factors they would find or what the basic dimensions of personality would be, they let the data do all the talking. By collecting the data they were able to agree that the five basic dimensions of personality were considered to be the most commons ones. Exactly how universal are these traits? Why are we different than others and what us the same? Studies done by (Robie, C., Brown, D. J., & Bly, P. R. 2005; Triandis, H. C., & Suh, E. M. 2002; Allik, J. 2005; Schmitt, D. P., Realo, A., Voracek, M., & Allik, J. 2009; Lui, P. P., Rollock, D., Chang, E. C., Leong, F. L., & Zamboanga, B. L. 2016) focus on the big five theory and investigate this topic in different demographics regions of the world. They look at cultural influences on the big five as well as the differences amongst sexes when it comes to the big five. One study refutes that cultural differences have any significant effect on the mean trait scores of the …show more content…
The GPI is made up of 300 items and 37 scales and the items are assessed on a five-point Likert-type scale, which rangers from strongly agree to strongly disagree. This particular GPI was made with personality and job performance models in mind. The five factors of personality that were used were: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism and openness to experience. The participants were given paper and pencil tests that included personality and cognitive ability test. To examine possible mean differences in the big five personality dimensions across sample independent groups t-tests were