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    personality, psychology researchers commonly use the five-factor method which is known as the “Big Five” dimensions of personality. The Big Five dimensions of personality are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. People often use the acronym, OCEAN to represent each personality (“The Big Five Personality Traits,” 2016). In definition, personality means characteristics or traits that are different from other people. The Big Five dimensions of personality help identify the

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    A study was conducted to test using the “Big Five Factor Model” (Costa & McCrae, 1995) to measure whether different personalities can or cannot be observed with a group of 1006 Inuit children from Northern Canada who spoke the Inuktitut language between the ages of 9 to 12 year old who were recruited for the study. The ‘International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)’ measure scale was used and the five item measure scales selected were: “(Extraversion, Neuroticism, Openness, Agreeableness & Conscientiousness)”

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    Introduction: The “Big Five personality traits” is also called as the FFM or five factor model which is a model formed on general language descriptors of personality. These descriptors are formed jointly utilizing a statistical method known as factor analysis which is stated as this model is not formed on the tests/experiments”. This broadly observed hypothesis recommended 5 wide dimensions, utilized by few psychologists to explain the psyche & the personality of the human. These 5 elements are explained

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    The Big Five Personality test had helped me gain a lot of knowledge about not only myself but also what type of information researchers collects about us in order to develop a reasonable idea of what type of personality we have. I learned that the Big Five Personality test is made using a large amount of things from how our personality changes over time and also how it relates to other variables such as self esteem and music preferences. From the findings of the Big Five Personality Test these researches

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    the big five assessment report will not be used. According to (Webster, 2015), personality is defined as “the quality or state of a being person.” There are thousands of different traits that can make up a persons personality. One-way to measure a beings trait is to use the five-factor model, also known as the big five traits. (Larson & Buss, 2014) defined the five-factor model as: A trait taxonomy that has its roots in the lexical hypothesis. The first psychologist to use the terms “five-factor

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    The Big Five personality test was created in the 1970 's by two independent research teams. One team with Paul Costa and Robert McCrae, and the other with Warren and Lewis Goldberg. The two teams had different methods that they tested but in the end they both ended up with the same results. The results were that no matter what culture, race, or language people have their personality fits into five dimensions of personality. The five dimensions were created after reviewing lots of surveys and data

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    purpose of this report is to provide answers to the questions presented in the research project in the Rasmussen general psychology class. The first question ask was what are the five personality traits according to the prominent five factor model. According to the psychology.suite101 website (Pawlik-Kienlen, 2007) the big five personality traits are as follows: • Conscientiousness - being disciplined, dedicated and organized. This also means being self disciplined and having goals in life and striving

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    his lack of conscientiousness. The “Big Five” was established to create a standardized list of essential traits to explain how/why individuals are both similar and different in personality. The journey to establish the “Big Five” began with the Lexical Hypothesis, which took 17,953 adjectives and consolidated them to 4,500 “enduring psychological traits,” which were whittled to 35 clusters of personality, with a final factor analysis leading to the “Big Five” traits known today. Subsequent analysis

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    The Big 5 Personality Test The Big Five model of personality traits is a widely accepted and popular framework in personality psychometrics that is aimed at assessing personality according to traits. Traits refer to an individual’s stable characteristics that predispose them to behave in particular ways across contexts (de Bruin & Taylor, 2013). In other words, trait psychologists aim to assess the consistencies in an individual’s behaviour in order to gain insight into the individual’s general

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    character, I found I am very organized, introverted, and am generally trusting. Independent and imaginative are also traits that described me. “The Big Five” inventory test showed the weak and strong areas of my personality. Many factors attribute to these unique personality traits. Through existing knowledge, I am a very introverted person. “The Big Five” personality test showed exactly that. I scored 14 out of 40 points on the extraversion section. The lowest possible score was 8 points. Being an

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