Big Five Personality Traits
The Big 5 Personality Traits is one of the most researched, tested and validated psychological models. For this model there are five dimensions of personality that someone could score low or high on, and each dimension has six sub-domains for a total of 30 sub-domains.
- openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)
- conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless)
- extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved)
- agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. critical/rational)
- neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident)
These sub-domains are related to how people see themselves and low or high scores are not necessarily “good” or “bad” because different jobs require different kind of people. For example, gregarious people don’t make good computer programmers, a job that can come with lots of alone time.
A person can score low on conscientiousness themselves but still like to have conscientious people around. Someone that is high on agreeability might see the need to have a disagreeable person on their team if just to handle the other disagreeable people the team has to interact with.
