Big 5 Personality Traits



Big 5 Personality Traits

1. Openness to experience resistance to new experiences

Curiosity Conforming imaginative predictable

Creative Conventional

Complex Uncreative

2. Conscientiousness Impulsiveness

Responsible, Quick to give up persevering fickle

self-disciplined careless

Dependable Disorganized

Deliberate (think carefully before acting) laid back

Not goal oriented

3. Extroversion Introversion

Outgoing Shy

talkative silent

sociable reclusive

adventurous cautious

enthusiastic reserved

quiet

4. Agreeableness Antagonistic

Good-natured Irritable

cooperative, abrasive

secure suspicious

sympathetic jealous

warm critical

quarrelsome

5. Neuroticism Emotionally Stable anxious only has those feelings when

impulsive the circumstances dictate worrier

easily upset calm

emotionally negative emotionally stable

Biological Influences:

Genetics – heredity

- You can look at the similarity in these traits between yourself and your biological parents and siblings, unfortunately, there could still be environmental factors influencing them and it is hard to tease that apart.

- Psychologists look at other species, temperament in children and heredity to study bio influences

Environmental Influences:

Situational (societal) – rewards and punishments, your views, beliefs and thoughts about behaviors or traits, how do the situations you find yourself in influence your personality traits and how does your personality influence the situations you find yourself in (reciprocal determinism), non-shared environment

Parental –Parents can influence religious beliefs and values, intellectual and occupational interests, skills, feelings of self-esteem or inadequacy, degree of helpfulness – do any of these influence where you fall on the spectrum of the Big 5 traits?

Social (peer pressure) – do you have similar levels of these traits to the peer groups you find yourself in, did you select a particular peer group b/c of your personality traits

e.g. Are you extroverted b/c you were on the debate team or a cheerleader? Or are you antagonistic (low on agreeableness) b/c you hung out with a group of friends that were more concerned with themselves than others?

Cultural Influence:

Does your ethnic identity or acculturation level influence these traits? Are there cultural reasons why you have a certain characteristic trait?

e.g. America is an individualistic culture, does that make you score lower on agreeableness? America is a schedule-oriented society, does that make you more conscientious?

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