Openness

gives them an incentive to continue using opiates. This can create a vicious cycle that can detrimentally affect people not only psychologically but socially as well. Personality traits found in the Big Five Inventory (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) are thought to be a good indication for addiction to opiates. Specifically in males, agreeableness is thought to be connected with opiate use. Between 2002 and 2003, a therapy based study was…

The beginning of the movie starts off with the narrator/ protagonist being held at gunpoint by a man named Tyler Durden, as the narrator starts to recall when he first met Tyler before this situation occurred, the narrator begins telling his story by explaining his life. A traveling recall specialist for a car company who suffers from insomnia, and claims that he was a slave to consumerism, in which he later seeks help from his doctor about his insomnia, however, the doctor suggested that it…

Given the role of self-efficacy in various aspects of life, the present study aimed to investigate the correlations of family functioning and personality traits with self-efficacy among the university students and the general public. To conduct this two-part study, it was first carried out in a sample of 500 students at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, and then in a larger sample consisting of 1000 subjects from the general public. The results of the present study revealed that the…

long research on personality (Whiteman, Martha C, 2003). According to the five-factor model, an individual’s personality, using common language word descriptors, can be categorised using 5 broad dimensions. These five factors can be described as openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. There exist facets for each of the global factors, for instance neuroticism is said to include anxious-calm; Impulsive-controlled; Vulnerable-secure. The Five-factor…

Jesus, but what’s more is that she feels included in church community, to the degree she has been giving back in the form of serving at Sunday morning worship and having the group over to her home occasionally. Indeed, she’s quite surprised me by her openness to being called out on her sins and stepping into…

The University of Kansas each year hosts a career fair, at these career fairs companies from around the country come in hopes of recruiting some of the Universities best and brightest students to come work for their company. On the other hand, there are the hundreds of hopeful college students that have been tweaking their resumes and are dressed in their finest clothes in hope that they will be selected for a leadership program, internship, or even a full-time job. The career fair can be…

The five basic factors that psychologists depend on as the main dimensions of personality are known as the big five. These traits include openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. These traits can easily be remembered by using the acronym OCEAN. Personality psychologist, Warren T. Norman, helped develop this five-factor model. Some of my personality test results that I do not agree with are that I am somewhat conventional and that I tend to become anxious and…

I have always wondered who I am. I figured that my beliefs were justified by my experiences, but I realized that I have not really had an understanding of what those experiences were. Through the help of psychology, I have learned a lot about myself and what my motives are. My comprehension of the science of how my brain works, why I stress over certain things and how my personality has evolved has improved drastically. I aspire to have the knowledge that I am more than my conscious…

For this project, I chose to talk about ‘My Five Key Foundations’ and in doing so I conducted a self evaluation regarding my strengths developed through some of my life experiences. As a response to the question, I came to the realization that coming up with these traits allowed me to determine areas of my personality that I could work on more, in addition to the areas that I feel content or strong with. For example, my positive and optimistic personality is a strong foundation to have, but in…

Assessment 1: Authentic Happiness Inventory Results: Score Range : 1 to 5 Authentic Happiness Inventory : 2.83 I disagree and agree with the results of my test. I feel as though the possible answer choices were limited. Some of the sections need more varying types of choices than just a change in one word from the above answer choice. Despite the limited number of answer choices, I feel that the number of question was insufficient to be able to calculate my happiness. The test only focuses on…