My Sister Evett, Now Age 28

Guilford (1959) defines personality traits as being ‘any distinguishable, relatively enduring way in which one individual varies from another’. Subsequently, trait theory can be identified as an approach to the study of human personality. The aim of psychologists, specifically trait theorists, is to explain similarities and differences between individuals based on traits. Although numerous psychologists differ on the amount of traits that are significant, each theorist categorizes personality traits along several broad type spectrums. This assignment will focus on comparing and contrasting Eysenck’s Hierarchical Theory of Personality and Costa and McRae’s Five Factor Model (FFM), two different trait theories of personality.

Evaluation: Students will be given three exams and the option of writing one paper. For

My 40-Year-Old Child is a documentary series on TLC that introduces a mysterious medical condition that seems to slow the rate of aging. This documentary follows three families and their doctor during their journey to hopefully find answers to this very rare disorder. The condition effects the growth and overall development of the children, consequently leaving each child stagnant instead of progressing through each normal development stage. Dr. Richard Walker, a scientist searches for answers while studying and comparing similarities and differences within each child’s case. Even though the children appear to otherwise be healthy, the lack of normal development both emotional and cognitively is apparent.

The five-factor model (FFM) is a contemporary construct describing personality. It incorporates five traits – openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism also referred to as OCEAN. Within each dimension, there are specific personality attributes, for example, openness includes subcategories of feelings and actions. The FFM was influenced by Cattell’s 16-factor model (1957) and shares traits with many other personality theories such as Eysenck’s PEN model. There has been an ongoing debate discussing how many factors appropriately represent the brain structure of personality, suggestions have varied from 2-7, recently Almagor et al. (1995) advocated that a 7-factor model unfolds when evaluative traits are involved. Costa & Mcrae (1992) claim that the FFM is the best theory of personality, however, the model has received much criticism. Through examining different aspects of the model its credibility can be explored.

I am an Asian-American woman living and working in the global city of New York. Growing up in an international city allowed me to become a multicultural individual and develop into a young woman different from my counterparts in Asia and here in the United States as well. I was taught by my parents not only the values of a Chinese culture but also to strive to enhance my strengths and to go forth and establish a successful career in business while always relating back to my Chinese roots. These values of diligence, perseverance and selflessness influence my everyday work and personal life.

Jane informed me that she ranked in the top of her class, and she always takes care of her academics before worrying about her extracurricular activities. Her peers said she is always caring, responsible, and a great leader. Jane completed the Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test, and her results were exactly what she expected. Her type was ESFJ and she scored 9% extravert, 19% sensing, 22% feeling, and 22% judging. It says that these type of people are generous entertainers, enjoy being in charge, delegate easily, and is willing to provide service. Jane revealed that she often gives her time to others and wears her emotions on her sleeves. She really enjoyed reading about the self-development and careers for people of her type. On the multiple intelligences test, Jane scored highest in interpersonal. Her next highest multiple intelligences scores were logical, kinesthetic, and

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.

The Analysis of the Five Factor Model In this essay, first the Five Factor Model (FFM) will be described. Secondly, psychologists for and against the model will be looked at. Following this, the stability of traits will be looked at, both longitudinal and cross situational. Finally, the application of the model within and outside psychology will be evaluated to show support that the FFM provides a solid foundation for an adequate personality psychology.

For psychologists, one of the more popular theories espoused is the trait approach to personality, or “the idea that people have consistent personality characteristics that can be measured and studied” (Kalat, 2002, 512). However there are several problems that arise. First, there are significant cross-cultural differences, so one set of personality traits for one culture may differ considerably for another. The next problem would concern the creation of a test that could accurately measure these traits. While psychologists have for the most part addressed these issues, I will focus on the latter of the two. There has been a

The main difference in these two articles is their personal feelings and their different personalities traits that influence their opinions about the princess culture. Our core beliefs form in our childhood and early teenage years. The “big five” traits model represents five dimensions or clusters of personality that jointly describe human personality (Digman, 1990; McCrae & Costa, 1999). These five major traits are (1) openness to experience; (2) conscientiousness; (3) extraversion; (4) agreeableness; and (5) neuroticism (Neve, 2015).

My brother, on the other hand with an ESFP personality type values variety, social interaction, and having a stable future and exciting life. He loves to travel and has a “YOLO” outlook on life, which he has shown by trekking most of Europe, Thailand, and India, and wants to live in South Korea. He is also the type of person to pack a couple hours before leaving for these great trips. He is great at talking to people, which helps in his career since he is great at the skill of networking. He is just very optimistic, friendly, spontaneous, generous and great at juggling a lot of responsibilities on the whole. Finally my sister’s personality as an ISFJ means that she values security, order/structure and loyalty. She has always been there for me and has kept the same close friends since high school and college, even after six years and two years respectively. She is very accountable, dependable, stable, conventional, and has a great sense of duty or responsibility. Albeit, she can be quite serious and overthinks a lot, which can lead to her avoiding making decisions.

The study was conducted using the IPIP measure scales; (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Openness, Agreeableness & Conscientiousness), (Goldberg, 1999) and the Big Five Factor Model which measure the personality factors of the Big Five (Costa & McCrae, 1992). The four goals of Psychology was taken into consideration using the 25-item translated questionnaire with a 5 point Likert scale.

Pearson (2006) continues in explaining that explanation of gender, ethnic and cultural differences help to form a complete picture of personality and motivations that help to direct people are formed by their culture (Pearson, 20060. Therefore, it can be determined that philanthropist, actress, television producer and talk show host Oprah Winfrey has a personality that was formed through experiences from her childhood, environmental, evolutionary and biological factors. Oprah Winfrey stated “the whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be” (Winfrey, 2011).

“The youngest child gets everything.” I could not agree any less with this phrase when I was the youngest in my family. Every child would know the kind of ‘power’ their younger sibling has over them. Therefore, I am guilty of taking advantage of this privilege against my older brother and sister. To begin with, I purposely placed both of them in trouble whenever they made me cry or whenever they don’t obey what I want them to do. In short, I was very spoiled and stubborn child, but nevertheless, I treasured those moments where I was always their center of attention. That was before my parents told me that I was going to have a younger sister.

The original International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) focused on Goldberg’s 100-adjective markers of the psycholexical FFM structure (Goldberg, 1990/1992). The current IPIP-50 is a 50-item prototype public domain (the NEO-PI-R is a commercial questionnaire) personality questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006; Goldberg, 2011). Since the questionnaire is free of charge over 600 different studies have employed it (Goldberg, 2016). Until 2005 the IPIP big-five factor markers lacked validating evidence, but research conducted in 2005 found that the IPIP-50 had a high internal consistency and related strongly to both Costa and McCrae’s NEO-FFI and Eysenck’s EPQ-R Short Form (Gow et al., 2005). In addition, Gow et al. (2005) found that although Intellect and Openness related less strong, it was still 0.59. A study carried out in New Zealand found that there was hardly any evidence to suggest hidden biases at the item or scale level of the IPIP-50 (Guenole & Chernyshenko, 2005). Before looking at the research examining the relation between the FFM and EI, this literature review first presents some of the current findings in EI.