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The Big 5. PERSONALITY INVETORY. What is the Big 5?. A system of classifying personality traits Describes 5 basic personality traits that generally fit everyone Helps us to get an understanding of ourselves and others
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The Big 5 PERSONALITY INVETORY
What is the Big 5? • A system of classifying personality traits • Describes 5 basic personality traits that generally fit everyone • Helps us to get an understanding of ourselves and others • Tests use behavioural factors and mathematically correlates answers together to describe personality characteristics
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Extraversion: • Engages with the external world • Being with other people • Often experience positive emotions • Action-oriented • Group interaction and socializing
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Extraversion: • Opposite: introversion • Lower energy and activity levels than extraverts • Quiet or low-key • Deliberate (planning) • Less social interaction • Independent • Reserved (can be mistaken for unfriendly/unsociable)
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Agreeableness: • Seeks cooperation and social harmony. • Considerate, friendly, generous and helpful. • Optimistic view of people. • Believe that people are usually honest and trustworthy • Usually well-liked
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Agreeableness: • Opposite: Disagreeable • Self-interest above others • Unconcerned with the well-being of others • Skeptical or suspicious of other people • Less cooperative • Objective decision makers –not easily influenced by others
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Conscientiousness: • High degree of self-control • Typically avoid trouble • Usually plan and persist at achieving goals • Reliable • Often successful • Can be perfectionists
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Conscientiousness: • Opposite: Unconscientious • Impulsive behaviour (acting without thinking) • Can often get in trouble • Can be unreliable • Thinking about the present, not planning for or thinking about the future • Sometimes show a lack of ambition (drive to achieve)
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Neuroticism: • May experience one or more of the following; anxiety, anger or depression • Emotionally reactive • Responds emotionally to events more so than others • Can view events “out of proportion” • Lengthy emotional periods of frustration can affect decision making and thinking clearly
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Neuroticism: • Opposite: Balanced (emotionally) • Less emotionally responsive and reactive • Free from persistent negative feelings • Able to achieve a greater clarity of thought and decision-making with
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Openness to Experience: • Tend to be creative and imaginative • Curious, appreciative of arts and sensitive to beauty • More aware of their own feelings • Tend to be individualistic and non-confirmative • Abstract thinking, symbolic recognition and performance arts
The Big 5 Personality Traits: Openness to Experience: • Opposite: Closed to experience • Prefer concrete and straight forward concepts • New ideas or concepts may be viewed with suspicion • Narrower or common interests • Conservative and resistant to change
Take the Big 5 Personality Test • Answer each question honestly • Don’t worry about your results • Use the test as a tool to understand yourself better
Take the Big 5 Personality Test • When you are finished create a BIG 5 stamp on the front page of your passport. -Just like you did for multiple intelligences • Click HERE to begin the test. • If you finish early, complete THIS QUIZ and compare your results to the first one.