Big Five Surveys

I have read about the big five personality test, designed to get an idea about the personality with some multiple choice questions. I run the test and found that traits described in the results are somewhat matching with my personality. I am not 100 % agree with some of the test results. I will discuss each traits below.

I found the test results of the Big Five personality assessment to be an interesting and very accurate description of myself. After completing this assessment, I was able to analyze my personality in depth. I found this information to be helpful knowledge and provide insight about myself, as well as being crucial in examining my personality traits. The big five is also referred to the OCEAN model of personality, and stands for the main traits used to describe personalities. This acronym stands for openness to experience/intellect, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. After taking the test I was then given percentile scores that allowed me to compare myself with other people who have taken the test online as well, therefore making it a more meaningful comparison.

Who are you? Many fortune cookies, horoscopes, and other whimsical devices attempt to tell us our personalities, or our combination of traits and behaviors that make up who we are. However, psychologists today deviate from those unsubstantiated methods and have concocted various personality tests that give us a better understanding of who we are. One such test is called the Myers-Briggs personality test. Based on theories by Carl Jung, but primarily created by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs, the test gives people a standardized survey of questions to answer. Standardized, meaning the test is given and scored in the exact same way every time to give unbiased and accurate results. It scores people in four pairs of characteristics, so there is a total of 16 possible personality types. Each pair of characteristics are opposites and a person can fall anywhere between the extreme end of one opposite to the extreme end of the other. The pairs are extroverted and introverted, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, finally judging and perceiving. A person can have strong, moderate or weak tendencies towards a preference. (Rathus, 2010, p. 420) There is some criticism of the Myers-Briggs test however, not everyone fits into the categories. People may answer according to socially acceptable norms instead of their honest answers. Not all of the theories were proven, Carl Jung made many observations and deductions but they weren’t formally

Of the Big Five personality traits, I scored highest on neuroticism. I compared myself to my friend. My friend scored highest on extraversion. I scored lowest on extraversion, whereas my friend scored lowest on agreeableness. I was somewhat surprised at my results that my friend received. However, I was not surprised by my results. I am a typically anxious person, so I knew I would probably score high on neuroticism. However, I thought my friend would score higher on agreeableness. I don’t agree with some of these because I believe that my friend falls a little higher on the agreeableness, while I believe we both fall a little higher on the openness scale. I also believe there is more to a person’s personality than that.

According to Steffans personality blog, The Big Five Theory relies on five major factors . These factors are Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness , Openness and Conscientiousness. This theory

Using the Big Five Project personality test, I assessed my personality in the aspects of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. After several questions, the results were given where my lowest score was in the category of openness and the highest score was in the agreeableness category. In the openness to experience or intellect, I scored in the percentile of 20 and it was deemed that I was somewhat conventional. Scoring high in this category meant that a person is creative and original, while those who scored poorly were deemed as conventional and close minded. In the conscientiousness category, I scored in the 58th percentile and I was considered to be neither organized nor disorganized. Those

After doing the personality test through The Big Five Project, I would like to reflect on my own personality. Also, I have opinion on the outcome.

Although this test is interesting, what everyone must realize is that people are way more complex than any personality test will tell them. No test can be 100% accurate for everyone and it shouldn’t be taken as gospel. This test organizes everyone into a box; learn from it, but don’t let its walls limit

I feel that my results depended on who was taking the survey. Adding other techniques of personality assessments, such as interviews, direct observation, or situational testing, would help to get more accurate results. Certain people in our lives will see us in different ways. My parents knew I was a little rebellious when I was a teenager, but my adult friend and husband wouldn’t agree with that at all. My husband knows how I can be impatient sometimes or pessimistic, but a friend or co-worker might not ever know that about me. According to Barbara Engler (2014), “psychologists regard personality as a person’s unique long-term pattern of thinking, emotions, and behavior” (Coon & Mitterer, 2016, p. 384, Engler 2014). With this type of survey, I think that the traits with the most checkmarks are the traits the person has more consistently than the traits with just one or two

After completing the Big Five personality test, l found that my results showed that I am open to new experiences, conscientious, slightly introverted, slightly disagreeable, and moderately nervous and high-strung. Nonetheless, l can’t help but openly agree to the accuracy of my results. I scored high on open-mindedness and was described as being relatively open to new experiences, which l definitely feel that l am. I love experiencing new things; it excites me and motivates me to continue to move forward. In terms of conscientiousness, l scored extremely high in this area and was told that l was very well organized and can be relied upon. I feel as though l can be a very well organized person, especially when it comes to schoolwork. In addition,

The information The Big Five Personality Test provides is remarkably precise. Now, there are several reason

The Big Five is a personality test asks questions about how you see yourself. Some questions were “I see myself as someone who tends to find fault with others” and “I see myself as someone who does things efficiently”. Each question is answered on a scale 1 (strongly disagreeing) to 5 (strongly agreeing). The test is around 45 questions long. Scores were represented in percentiles so that comparison could be made between people. The percentiles were based on groups determined by location and age. My scores were for someone around the age of 18 in North Carolina. My book character’s scores were from people around the age of 17 in the UK.

The different ways a person reacts to in different situations and interacts with others. Most of the times we measure personality in traits a person displays. Measuring personalities has been done in the past by various people. The Big Five are broad dimensions or categories in a hierarchical sense, such that they encompass a lot without detail. We lose information, and while the Big Five factors provide useful personality descriptors they are somewhat less useful at predicting specific behaviors. So a researcher chooses a hierarchical level of analysis suited to the research being conducted. Some researchers such as Norman, Goldberg and Costa and McCrae, have developed middle level categories that provide more description or

Evidence of the theory has grown over the past 70 years with the research of D.W. Fiske (1949) which was later expanded upon by other researchers (Norman, 1967; Smith, 1967; Goldberg, 1981; McCrae and Costa, 1987). McCrae and his colleagues also discovered in their research that the ‘Big Five’ traits were remarkably universal. One of their studies looked at people from over 50 cultures and found that the five dimensions could be used to quite accurately describe personality.

The Big Five Model of personality categorizes traits into the dimensions of extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.