What are the Big Five?

The Big Five are five broad factors (dimensions) of personality traits. They are:

Extraversion (sometimes called Surgency). The broad dimension of Extraversion encompasses such more specific traits as talkative, energetic, and assertive.

Agreeableness. Includes traits like sympathetic, kind, and affectionate.

Conscientiousness. Includes traits like organized, thorough, and planful.

Neuroticism (sometimes reversed and called Emotional Stability). Includes traits like tense, moody, and anxious.

Openness to Experience (sometimes called Intellect or Intellect/Imagination). Includes traits like having wide interests, and being imaginative and insightful

As you can see, each element of the Big Five is fairly broad and consists of more specific traits. The Big Five structure was derived from a statistical analysis of what traits people tend to co-occur in describing themselves and others. The underlying correlations are probabilistic and subject to exceptions. For example, talkativeness and assertiveness are both traits associated with extraversion, but they don't work together out of logical necessity.

You can imagine someone who is assertive but not talkative (“strong quiet”). However, many studies show that talkative people are also usually more assertive (and vice versa), so they fall into the broader extrovert category.

For this reason, the purpose of the study should be clarified when choosing measurements. If you anticipate needing to make finer distinctions (eg, chatter versus assertiveness), broad Big Five measures will not suffice. Either use one of the longer inventories (such as the NEO PI-R or IPIP scale - see below) that does facet-level distinctions, or use a shorter one (such as the Big Five inventory) with a specific dimension of interest.

Also, note that there are many aspects of personality that don't fit into the Big Five. The term personality trait has a special meaning in personality psychology that is narrower than the everyday use of the term. Motives, emotions, attitudes, abilities, self-concepts, social roles, autobiographical memories, and life his stories are just a few of the other “entities” that personality psychologists study. Some of these other entities may have a theoretical or empirical relationship with the Big Five traits, but conceptually they are different. For this reason, even a very comprehensive profile of an individual's personality traits can only be considered an incomplete description of personality

BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS

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