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Individual Personality Traits Kelly Lanham PSY/250 10/8/2019

Have you ever wondered what makes you who you are? Everyone has their own set of personality traits. These traits make people who they are. Some traits when compared to others may be the same or can be dramatically different. This paper will analyze my personality traits based on the big five personality factors. There will be a solution proposed for working with other personality types based upon the information that is gathered in the big five assessment. The reader will also understand how the results from the assessment compare to the sixteen personality factors, and how it relates to genetics. First let us understand what the Big Five assessment looks at. There are five major dimensions of personality the Big Five assessment looks at, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, sometimes abbreviated OCEAN. My highest score of this assessment was my score in neuroticism, which was 92%. The assessment explains that a person with a high score in neuroticism tends to experience negative emotions, including fear, sadness, anxiety, guilt, and shame. A person with high neuroticism scores is more likely to react to a situation with fear, anger, sadness, and the like. High scores tend to experience a lot of stress and get upset very easily. People with high scores in this dimension of personality also struggle to bounce back after stressful situations. Low neuroticism scorers are more likely to brush off their misfortune and move on. My second highest score was in agreeableness, which was 85%. Agreeableness describes a person’s tendency to put other people’s needs before their own, and to cooperate rather than to compete with others. In the second personality test I took, to determine how accurate my outcome was, determined that my highest scorer was in agreeableness. The final outcome of the second assessment can be said that with my score in the 80 percentiles in agreeableness I am friendly and optimistic.

The lowest score that I acquired during this assessment was my score in extraversion, which was 2%. Extraversion describes a person’s inclination to seek stimulation from the outside world, especially in the form of attention from other people. I can agree with this as I am a very closed off and introverted person. The results show that I prefer solitude to socializing. People with a low extraversion also can find it difficult to start conversations, as well as thoroughly thinks things through before speaking. This leads these people to never quite fit in with the conversation because they are always thinking of what to say next instead of being in the conversation, which I have to say I am quite guilty of doing this. With a score of 40% openness is my third highest scorer. Openness describes a person’s tendency to think in abstract, complex ways. Low scorers tend to be practical, conventional, and focused on the concrete. They tend to avoid the unknown and follow traditional ways. Forty percent says that I am not completely abstract in my ways, yet I am not completely traditional in my thinking either. The last dimension of personality is conscientiousness, which I scored 27%. Low scorers of conscientiousness are impulsive and easily sidetracked. This is an agreeable statement, I have a hard time keeping on task, even with the smallest of things, such as a small conversation with someone. When looking deeper into my assessment, at my core pattern, shows that I am a practical caretaker. This means that I help other people in practical, everyday ways. The assessment goes into details saying that I am not particularly creative or imaginative, preferring to think about what is clear and observable in your environment. Making decisions means relying on provable facts and evidence.

Now that there is an understanding of my personality type what can be done to work with other personality types? Of course, with different personalities there will be people who clash with one another because of having different ways of thinking. Pairing someone with high neuroticism with someone with high conscientiousness would pay off because the person with high conscientiousness can exercise self-discipline and control in order to pursue their goals. This pair would help the person with high neuroticism look at things from a different perspective rather than the negative because they are paired with someone that has so much confidence. Whether it is with someone who is the same or different it is important to find a balance, that is the only way two different personalities are going to be able to coincide with one another. The sixteen personality factors, which was founded by Raymond Cattell, are what help guide and predict an individual’s personality. The factors are, “warmth, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule-consciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractness, privateness, apprehension, openness to change, self-reliance, perfectionism, and tension.” (Cloninger, 2013) If you look at the big five dimensions of personality, they are all in some way incorporated into the sixteen personality factors. Openness would be the reasoning factors, such as abstractness and being open to change. Next is consciousness which include ruleconsciousness. Then is extroversion, which involves the element of dominance, this can mean stubbornness, liveliness, and social boldness. Then we have agreeableness, being a joiner and being self-reliant. The last one is neuroticism, the factors include emotional stability, sensitivity, and apprehension. In conclusion, there are sixteen personality factors that make up the big five personality tests. When taking this test, I scored my highest in Neuroticism showing that I experience a large amount of stress and I get upset quite easily. I worry about many different things and tend to feel

anxious. I struggle to bounce back after stressful events have occurred, and experience dramatic shifts in mood. Though I tested high in neuroticism my second highest test was in agreeableness, showing that I care for others and feel empathy and concern for other people as well. I also enjoy helping and contributing to the happiness of other people. My lowest score was in conscientiousness showing that I dislike structure and schedules, and I have a major issue with procrastination with important tasks. I tend to fail to complete necessary or assigned tasks. The score I received for openness what kind of in between. That would mean that I may like to be creative, but I dislike change or do not enjoy doing new things. Personality is what makes us who we are as individuals. Understanding your own personality can allow you to change your interactions and develop new ways to learning.

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