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What is Your Dominant Character Trait

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What is Your Dominant Character Trait?

We all have certain character traits which can help to define who we are as a person.

There have many theories put forward in Psychology about character and one such one is the Big Five:

A summary of the factors of the Big Five and their constituent traits, such that they form the acronym OCEAN:

  • Openness to experience : ( inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious ). Appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience. Openness reflects the degree of intellectual curiosity, creativity and a preference for novelty and variety a person has. It is also described as the extent to which a person is imaginative or independent, and depicts a personal preference for a variety of activities over a strict routine. Some disagreement remains about how to interpret the openness factor, which is sometimes called "intellect" rather than openness to experience.
  • Conscientiousness : ( efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless ). A tendency to be organized and dependable, show self-discipline, act dutifully, aim for achievement, and prefer planned rather than spontaneous behavior.
  • Extraversion : ( outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved ). Energy, positive emotions, surgency, assertiveness, sociability and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others, and talkativeness.
  • Agreeableness : ( friendly/compassionate vs. analytical/detached ). A tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others. It is also a measure of one's trusting and helpful nature, and whether a person is generally well tempered or not.
  • Neuroticism : ( sensitive/nervous vs. secure/confident ). The tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, and vulnerability. Neuroticism also refers to the degree of emotional stability and impulse control and is sometimes referred to by its low pole, "emotional stability".

The Big Five Model was defined by several independent sets of researchers.These researchers began by studying known personality traits and then factor-analyzing hundreds of measures of these traits (in self-report and questionnaire data, peer ratings, and objective measures from experimental settings) in order to find the underlying factors of personality.  The Big five personality traits was the model to comprehend the relationship between personality and academic behaviors. (Source Wikipedia )

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