Analysis Of The Big Five Personality Traits

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DUNIYA LAKHANI PROFESSOR JAY JACKSON PSY-12000 CRITICAL THINKING, PERSONALITY 27TH OCTOBER 2015

PERSONALITY Psychologist Allport complied a list of 4500 traits, which was reduced to 35 traits by Cattell and eventually came up with the five essential factors through the factor analysis studies that became the 'Big Five Personality Traits'. The 'Big Five Personality Traits', also known as five-factor model, is a broader way to describe the human behavior. The five factors include: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeable and neuroticism. Each factor has been determined by …show more content…

For example, women are reported to have high neuroticism, agreeable, extraversion and openness factors towards feelings. On the other hand, men are reported high towards the factors extraversion and openness in thoughts. The differences in gender personality traits are not just between men and women but the differences in personality traits are there because of the society we are brought up as. In developed countries, men would be less neurotic, extraverted, conscientious and agreeable. Where as, in developing countries, the big five traits would be higher. Women, is however, hardly differs with the factors in developed and developing countries. Even though there are no constraints on gender differences in modern societies, the male is still seen as a breadwinner. They are involved taking risk in work on daily basis and tend to have higher in four of five big personality

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