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The Trait Perspective

Explore the trait perspective of personality, including the concept of traits, factor analysis, the Big Five personality traits, and personality inventories like the MMPI. Discover how traits can vary based on situations.

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The Trait Perspective

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  1. The Trait Perspective

  2. Trait • A characteristic of behavior or a disposition to feel and act as assessed by self-reported inventories or peer reports.

  3. Factor Analysis • A statistical procedure used to identify different components of your intelligence or personality (depending on the test). • FA takes the answers you give on tests and compiles them into general traits.

  4. Eysenck PersonalityQuestionnaire

  5. The Big Five • Emotional Stability (calm/anxious, secure/insecure, self-satisfied/self-pitying). • Extraversion (sociable/retiring, fun-loving/sober, affectionate/reserved). • Openness (imaginative/practical, variety/routine, independent, conforming)

  6. The Big Five (Continued) • Agreeableness (soft-hearted/ruthless, trusting/suspicious, helpful/uncooperative). • Conscientiousness (organized/disorganized, careful/careless, disciplined/impulsive).

  7. The Big Five Once you take a test that measures your personality according to the Big Five Scale…. Your traits will be stable over time. They can be attributed to your genetics They apply across different cultures They predict other attributes.

  8. Assessing Our Traits • Personality Inventories: a questionnaire where people respond to items attempting to gauge different aspects of their personality

  9. MMPI Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: • the most widely used personality test. • Originally used to identify emotional disorders. Now used for screening purposes.

  10. MMPI put to the Test

  11. The Person-Situation Controversy • Are traits really stable? Kind Of…. They change according to the situation

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