Individual Personality Traits Discussion

Individual Personality Traits Discussion

Individual Personality Traits Discussion

Write a paper describing your personality traits based on your findings from the Big Five assessment tool.
Individual Personality Traits Discussion

Individual Personality Traits Assignment

Write a paper describing your personality traits based on your findings from the Big Five assessment tool. Include the following in your paper:

Summarize your results.
Propose solutions for working with other personality types using the information from the Big Five assessment and the underlying principles of trait theories.
Describe how your results from the assessment compare to the 16 personality factors. Explain how your results are relative to genetics.
Include an introduction and conclusion, and cite at least two sources other than your textbook.

There are many ways to measure personality, but psychologists have mostly given up on trying to divide humanity neatly into types. Instead, they focus on personality traits.

The most widely accepted of these traits are the Big Five:

Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Conveniently, you can remember these traits with the handy OCEAN mnemonic (or, if you prefer, CANOE works, too).

The Big Five were developed in the 1970s by two research teams. These teams were led by Paul Costa and Robert R. McCrae of the National Institutes of Health and Warren Norman and Lewis Goldberg of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Oregon, according to Scientific American.

The Big Five are the ingredients that make up each individual’s personality. A person might have a dash of openness, a lot of conscientiousness, an average amount of extraversion, plenty of agreeableness and almost no neuroticism at all. Or someone could be disagreeable, neurotic, introverted, conscientious and hardly open at all. Here’s what each trait entails:

Openness
Openness is shorthand for “openness to experience.” People who are high in openness enjoy adventure. They’re curious and appreciate art, imagination and new things. The motto of the open individual might be “Variety is the spice of life.”

People low in openness are just the opposite: They prefer to stick to their habits, avoid new experiences and probably aren’t the most adventurous eaters. Changing personality is usually considered a tough process, but openness is a personality trait that’s been shown to be subject to change in adulthood. In a 2011 study, people who took psilocybin, or hallucinogenic “magic mushrooms,”became more open after the experience. The effect lasted at least a year, suggesting that it might be permanent.

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