Licht, Hull, and Ballantine define personality as the unique, core set of characteristics that influence the way one thinks, acts, and feels, and that are relatively consistent and enduring throughout the life span. Costa and McCrae developed the five-factor model of personality. The model contains what many psychologists believe to be the fundamental dimensions of personality. The basic traits included are neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, which are known as the “Big Five”. To compare my personality with that of my boyfriend David, I took an online personality analysis test based on those five traits. The openness trait refers to the degree to which a person is willing to try new experiences
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In this category I scored relatively low (26th percentile) and David made up for my low score by scoring in the 79th percentile. I typically do not like social situations; I like to be around the 2-3 people I am comfortable with and that’s it. David likes people and he enjoys social gatherings. A perfect example would be from last weekend. He wanted to have people over to have a good time and I wanted to just rent some movies and order pizza. So, in the end we compromised and had a couple people come hangout and still ordered pizza. I did have to have some time to myself afterwards because social settings literally drain …show more content…
I also believe this helped to understand how our relationship works and why we do the things we do. David and I are very different, which I have always known. Our personalities are so different we complete each other in just about every category. Of course, our extreme differences in open minded ness and extraversion makes some things difficult, but it’s not detrimental to our relationship. It is easy for David to stay calm in certain situations because he knows I am worrying enough for the both of us. The fact that I am well-organized and reliable has sort of taught David he doesn’t need to be. I don’t really mind though because I know if it were up to him to clean up he’d put everything in the wrong place and I’d have to redo it anyway. While we each have things we could work on, I feel we’re different yet alike enough to not have any serious
In this category I scored relatively low (26th percentile) and David made up for my low score by scoring in the 79th percentile. I typically do not like social situations; I like to be around the 2-3 people I am comfortable with and that’s it. David likes people and he enjoys social gatherings. A perfect example would be from last weekend. He wanted to have people over to have a good time and I wanted to just rent some movies and order pizza. So, in the end we compromised and had a couple people come hangout and still ordered pizza. I did have to have some time to myself afterwards because social settings literally drain …show more content…
I also believe this helped to understand how our relationship works and why we do the things we do. David and I are very different, which I have always known. Our personalities are so different we complete each other in just about every category. Of course, our extreme differences in open minded ness and extraversion makes some things difficult, but it’s not detrimental to our relationship. It is easy for David to stay calm in certain situations because he knows I am worrying enough for the both of us. The fact that I am well-organized and reliable has sort of taught David he doesn’t need to be. I don’t really mind though because I know if it were up to him to clean up he’d put everything in the wrong place and I’d have to redo it anyway. While we each have things we could work on, I feel we’re different yet alike enough to not have any serious