Big 5 Personality Traits

Big 5 Personality Traits

Introduction

The following paper briefly looks at the five personality factors that judge human behavior and might be related to human motivation. Traits are patterns of thoughts and feelings that are unique to each person. A person is differentiated from others on the basis of these traits. Traits are usually basic tendencies that remain stable throughout a person's life. There have been many theoretical perspectives that have been developed over decades including the theories of human motivation and differences. Each of the personality traits describes the feelings and behaviors of a person occurring in a continuum. The five traits described as under fall under the three of individual differences.

Discussion

The Big Five

The big five tree represents a classification of personality traits that suggest the differences in individual behaviors. The traits have been developed through cases, and analysis that have been conducted over time. Many researchers have identified the Big Five traits to be most considerable and reliable factors of identifying individual differences (Cherry, n.d). Allport along with his many colleagues developed a list of 4500 traits which was later reduced to 35 traits by Cattell. Changes occurred overtime, and eventually the Big Five Traits were identified as the basis of describing personalities and human. They help to understand why humans behave in a certain manner. They are as follows:

Extraversion vs. Introversion

Agreeableness vs. Antagonism

Conscientiousness vs. Non-directedness

Neuroticism vs. Emotional Stability

Openness to Experience vs. not open to Experience

The traits are defined as under:

Extraversion

Extroverts are highly sociable and interact with each other, becoming a major source of energy. Whereas, introverts do not socialize and usually gain energy from their within. Extraversion includes traits of sociability, assertiveness and positive emotions. Extraversion is described as a person's involvement with the outside world where the extroverts enjoy the company of others and remain energetic ...