Personality

Healthy personalities and behaviors are important for business to succeed. Since many workplaces have very diverse people it is important they know the “Big Five” trait theory. Trait theory proposes that that a personality of formed from five different traits. Commonly, known as the “Big Five” the traits are known as Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Openness to Experience. A manager can use the “Big Five” in a business setting to better understand the…

Personality can be defined as a person’s characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors (p. 549). My results for the Big 5 Personality test found five major dimensions of human personality known as the OCEAN model (***). Each letter of this acronym represents a trait such as, O-Openness to Experience, C-Conscientiousness, E-Extraversion, A-Agreeableness, and N-Neuroticism. According to the outcome of the test, I am not open to new experiences, I am reliable and organized, I tend to…

For the most part, the results of the Big Five personality test were similar to what I thought they would be and what other tests have said about my personality and included areas in which I desire to improve to become a better leader ("The Big Five Project - Personality Test"). I scored high in conscientious and neuroticism and low in agreeableness, extroversion, and openness to experience/intellect. Not surprising to me were the scores for conscientiousness and extroversion. The high score…

The five broad personality traits described by the theory “The Big Five” are extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness and neuroticism. Extraversion is your energy and your positive emotions, when you have high extraversion you are attention seeking low extraversion makes the person seem self absorbed. Agreeableness Is when is being more compassionate and cooperative and less suspicious. Openness is the ability to appreciate art and creativity, unusual ideas, and a variety of…

consist of, and rely on people, each one equipped with their own unique personality, value system, and worldview. There are many similarities and differences between the vast number of personality traits that can either, enhance or hinder organizational behavior. This paper explores how understanding my own personality impacts my motivation, decisions, communication skills, and leadership and team skills. By adding personality trait recognition to my professional toolbox, this not only benefits…

Antisocial Personality Disorder Antisocial Personality Disorder is one of ten different personality disorders on the DSM-V list. “Of the 10 classified types of personality disorder, borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorder are the most prominent in forensic and psychiatric settings.” (Kendall, T. et al., 2009, P.293). The disorder is predicted to be more common in men than women. The disorder is associated with suicide, violence, and risk-taking behavior. (Guy, L. S., Poythress, N. G.,…

Narcissistic personality disorder is a general excess admiration; this disorder enables someone from empathizing with others. This disorder is generally one of the most difficult personalities to treat due to random personality patterns. Symptoms vary from grandiose sense of self-importance and preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success. This may be difficult to lead NPD patients to seek help due to their lack of acknowledgement of their certain weaknesses. This can be one of the large…

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,…

Personality in non-human animals has previously been frequently overlooked partly due to the early assumptions that personality was a subjective phenomenon related to the dynamic organization, character and psyche within the individual (King and Figueredo, 1997). Human personality descriptors formed the lexical hypothesis, which described how all individual human personality differences that are salient or relevant eventually become encoded in a single personality word or descriptor (King &…

Regions of the United States differ 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…