Trait

The main five culturally valued traits for which I am below average are superiority, risk taker, spirituality, family oriented and materialist. The level of acceptance that I am below average on superiority is high. I prefer not to be seen as superior or to be superior. However, it does not mean I let people push me around. Additionally, I am below average as a risk taker, which I accept at a high level. Depending on the situation, I tend to play it safe rather than be a risk taker, who gets…

personality traits. Personality traits are qualities that a person chooses to display. According to psychologist, Gordon Allport, suggests that there are many different types of traits. Cultures contain varied unique traits shared among the group of individuals within that culture, these are called common traits. Common traits demonstrate what traits are dominated by a culture or nation or how people within a culture are alike. On the other hand, individual traits define what specific traits…

THE TRAIT THEORIES Personality traits, or characteristics that predict their behavior consistently across a wide range of situations. The predominant trait theory, the Big Five theory, finds that these traits are extraversion/introversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The trait theorists believe that there are certain core personality characteristics that, once developed in each of us, remain relatively stable throughout our life and thus comprise…

solid views of what I thought to be my major traits. The way that I viewed my major traits was the way that I figured everyone else that I came into contact with also observed them, but as was found out from the questioning of three individuals, I found that the way people view me varies. For this experiment, I first came up with a list of six traits that I felt very strongly defined me. Second, I asked three people to come up with at least six traits that they would use to describe me, for the…

According to Jason Rentfrow, Ph.D., the “Big 5” personality traits are: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience (Rentfrow, 2009). To determine my own personality traits, I took a version of the International Personality Item Pool test located at psychcentral.com, I found my scores of these five traits to be: extraversion 27, agreeableness 36, conscientiousness 33, neuroticism 24, and openness 33 (Goldberg et al., 2006). While the test did not…

Psychologist today, believe at, there are five different key factors of someone’s personality and are often referred to as the “Big Five Personality Traits”. As a result of these personality traits, serve as our building blocks of our personalities. These begin with, extraversion, which is characterized by excitability, sociability, very talkative and assertive with high amount of emotional expressiveness. For example, people that higher in extraversion, tend to be more outgoing and gain energy…

in motion, or simply making life easier for their respective clients However, in Billy’s case he likes that he doesn’t have to work a nine to five job and can create his own hours because of his freelance job. Referring to the Big Five Personality Traits, I found that my interviewees were extroverts, meaning they are able to harness their comfort level with relationships and are therefore more sociable than introverts. As extroverts they have better interpersonal skills, greater social…

person’s personality, such as their traits, behavior, genetics, psychodynamic motivation, humanistic paradigm and social cognitive design. My personality can be attributed to trait and behavioral paradigms and through those paradigms, my personality was shaped into the introverted, stressed person that I am today. One particular paradigm that affected my life is the trait-dispositional paradigm. My particular traits affect how my life goes. Mainly, my key trait is my introversion, preferring to…

The Big Five Personality Traits and Their Roles From the class clown to the shy artist, personality defines who people are and how the world perceives these characteristics. The Big Five personality traits consist of what is widely accepted as the most basic of human personality by most psychologist. These traits include openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. These traits also have smaller and more specific personality traits that fit into these…

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…