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  1. How the 'super traits' of the Five Factor Model explain differences in personality and the way people behave.

  2. Dec 20, 2023 · The Big Five Personality Traits, also known as OCEAN or CANOE, are a psychological model that describes five broad dimensions of personality: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.

    • Openness. Openness (also referred to as openness to experience) emphasizes imagination and insight the most out of all five personality traits. People who are high in openness tend to have a broad range of interests.
    • Conscientiousness. Among each of the personality traits, conscientiousness is one defined by high levels of thoughtfulness, good impulse control, and goal-directed behaviors.
    • Extraversion. Extraversion (or extroversion) is a personality trait characterized by excitability, sociability, talkativeness, assertiveness, and high amounts of emotional expressiveness.
    • Agreeableness. This personality trait includes attributes such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection, and other prosocial behaviors. People who are high in agreeableness tend to be more cooperative while those low in this personality trait tend to be more competitive and sometimes even manipulative.
    • Openness to Experience. Openness suggests characteristics that include having broad range of interests and willing to try out even most unusual ideas. They are intellectually curious, sensitive to beauty, and tend to hold unconventional beliefs.
    • Conscientiousness. People with higher score on conscientiousness tend to be self disciplined, dutiful and prefer planned behavior to a spontaneous one. Lack of conscientiousness refers to a personality trait exactly in contrast.
    • Extraversion. People with high score on extraversion gain energy when exposed to the external world. They tend to be action-oriented, enthusiastic, visible to people, and are capable of asserting themselves.
    • Agreeableness. People with high score on this trait are trustworthy, helpful, kind, considerate, generous and do not hesitate to compromise their interests with others.
  3. The 5 Major Factors of Personality: Super Traits. When we try to describe people, we use the words, kind, easy to get along with, hard-working, trustworthy, loving, smart, or boring. The number of words we can use to possibly describe someone is endless.

  4. Sep 12, 2024 · The five-factor model of personality — often called the Big Five — is a psychology model designed to capture the major differences in people’s personalities in five key traits.

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  6. The Big Five personality traits, also known as the Five-Factor Model (FFM), describe five broad dimensions of personality. Each trait has subcomponents that provide a deeper understanding of the trait's impact on behavior and life outcomes. 1. Open-Mindedness