Causality Of Personality Theory Essay

Personality has been conceptualised from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and at various levels of abstraction and breadth. (John, Hampson, & Goldberg, 1991) In modern psychology, trait theories have been increasingly used to study human personality. Primarily, trait theorists have had a large focus on the measurement of these traits. Traits can be defined as the habitual patterns of behaviour, emotions and thoughts displayed by humans that are consistent in various situations. (Borghans, Duckworth, Heckman, & ter Weel, 2008) As this suggests, traits are consistent and do not drastically change over time and scenario. The most commonly used personality theories are the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Big Five Factor Model. For the purposes of this and related studies the BFF model has been used. This model measures Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. (John & Srivastava, 1999) This study aims at further discussing similar works into the causality of personality traits and behaviour. There have been previous studies …show more content…
All three of the original predictions required the data to have a strong correlation negative or positive which, as shown, is not prevalent in any of the data. This report aimed at examining the relationship between conscientiousness, intellectual ability and academic performance; there was no strong support in the hypotheses but there wasn’t anything to suggest the opposite of what was predicted is true. This research can be considered to have reasonable validity and reliability, there are, however, still limitations to this report. Only 50 participants were involved with the study. This small sample was to be used as a representation of millions of student Australia wide. In order for this research to be considered more valid there must be a retest with a larger, more diverse sample