Big Five personality traits

more reserved around unfamiliar people or situations. I am also quiet, but I do not let myself get pushed around. Out of the “big five” personality traits I would say I am high in agreeableness and conscientiousness. Some of my best qualities that I take pride in are being very compassionate, hardworking, studious and strong. I see myself having an androgynes personality. I am a…

The Big 5 Dimensions of Personality There will never be a time that one person will come across another person that is completely one hundred percent identical to them in personality. That is the beautiful thing about personalities. It separates one from the other seven billion people populating the world. There have been many people throughout the years try to come up with the “perfect” number of personality traits ranging from 4,000 (Gordon Allport’s list) to 16 (Raymond Cattell’s list) but…

Personality is a term that has coined numerous definitions and a psychological concept that has a variety of models. One model in particular, the "Big Five" model, has been recognized for its effectiveness in "characterizing subjects’ personalities" (Sinphurmsukskul, Froer & Ahleim 1-1). By considering five conglomerated domains of personality, the Big Five has successfully maintained its stature as one of the most... The Big Five, also called the five-factor theory, is a self-test in which the…

Dunkel, C., Kim, J., & Papini, D. (2012). The general factor of psychosocial development and its relation to the general factor of personality and life history strategy. Personality and Individual Differences, 52(2), 202-206. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.016. In this article, the authors’ relate a person’s psychosocial development to general factors of personality (Dunkel, Kim, & Papini, 2011, p. 1). The ultimate goal of the study was to test two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that…

Personality has been defined as a ‘specific pattern of behaviours that relates to a person’s interest, value and preferences and are relatively consistent across both space and time’ (Chamorro-Premuzic, 2011). The study of personality psychology frequently illuminates the importance of individual differences between human characteristics, within a society reliant on conformity and community. Compelling evidence for humans’ ostensibly social nature arises in the form of empathy which is said to…

Appendix Palaiou, K., & Furnham, A. (2014). Are bosses unique? Personality facet differences between CEOs and staff in five work sectors. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice And Research, 66(3), 173-196. doi:10.1037/cpb0000010 This study by Kat Palaiou and Adrian Furnham of University College London was the first to compare the Big Five Personality scores of 138 CEOs and senior managers of five different popular professions. They expected that CEOs would have significantly higher scores in…

characteristics of personality. Rentfrow et al., (2013) evaluated state-level personality traits to determine whether the United States was divided into psychological regions. The authors further explored how these psychological regions shape the population’s political, economic, social, and health (PESH) characteristics. Rentfrow and colleagues utilized a multi-sample approach to collect personality characteristics, demographics, and state of residence then compared this data to the Big Five…

The study of personality characteristics has been a topic of controversy in terms of their stability. Anusic and Schimmack (2016) carried out a meta-analysis of the stability and change of personality traits, and their findings suggested that personality traits become more stable with age. Specifically, personality traits started becoming more stable during the teenage years and young adulthood (Anusic & Schimmack, 2016). Rantanen, Metsäpelto, Feldt, Pulkikinen, and Kokko (2007) conducted a…

when he gets older. Many of us tend to believe in that a personality of a certain child will remain with him/her even when she gets older. That applies to some children and does not apply to other children. A research done by Joto, Christopher and Tackett, Jennifer has an answer to a belief that we still have. Background information: The research focused on how a child’s specific behavioral tendencies cohere into adolescence and how these traits develop across childhood. Not only this study…

I found the theories based on traits and Freud's theory of psychosexual development the most interesting. I found the five-factor model of personality interesting because it is made up of five broad traits and efficiently describes how they contribute to a person’s personality; it is not limited or complex, making it easier to understand and see the correlations. Freud’s theory proposed an interesting perspective on personality. He describes personality as having three sides to it: id—present at…