Personality



Personality Traits

Introduction

The essay highlights the big five personality traits model keeping in view the interactive model, the interactive model analyses how the big five personality traits among the two or more than two people affect the interaction and strength of the relationship. This model is important to analysis the personality similarities and differences on the basis of big five personality traits.

Discussion

In psychology, the Big Five model is a model of personality that analyzes the composition of five broad factors or dimensions of personality. These factors were found experimentally in an investigation into the personality descriptions of several individuals. Although the first public mention of this five-factor model is found in Thurston's speech to the President to the "American Psychological Association," at a meeting in Chicago in September 1933. The five traits or key factors are often referred to traditionally as factor O (Openness or openness to different experiences), factor C (conscientiousness or responsibility), factor E (Extraversion or extroversion), factor A (Agreeableness or friendliness) and factor N (Neuroticism or emotional instability) (Nettle, 2009). There is some discussion of the O factor, sometimes called "Intellect". Each of these factors is a more specific set of features. For example, the E factor includes qualities such as sociability, seeking emotions or positive emotions. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest and research in relation to the so-called five "major" factors or dimensions of personality. This is one of the alternative models for measuring personality.

Personality traits and interaction model

In the five-factor model, of McCrae and Costa argues that "any kind of personality can be conceptualized from five broad orthogonal dimensions. These dimensions are (Didato, 2003):

Opening the experience: it includes features such as the taste for art, for the adventure, emotion, imagination and curiosity.

I am open to experience and want adventure in every activity; many of my friends have the similar traits which keeps the fun in our relationship alive. Such similarity undoubtedly strengthens understanding.

Consciousness or thoroughness: the tendency to self-discipline, responsibility to the response, planning rather than spontaneous.

I am a conscious person who shows responsibility and ownership. It is not possible that all of my friends posses the same trait, which sometimes create frustration among the friend's group.

Extraversion: mean energy, positive emotions, the tendency to see the care and company of others.

I am an extrovert; however, my close friends do not possess the same extrovert behavior as I am. This creates a conflict ...