Psychology delves into human behaviour, thoughts, and emotions. It grounds personal well-being and social support. Experiences can be examined through the lenses of cognitive, behavioural and social psychology.
Personality shows strengths and weaknesses. Then approaches can be tailored for therapeutic, educational, and workplace settings. They can be structured into theory.
I studied business and education. Both of which include understanding the human mind. And I’ve taken personality tests.
Big Five personality traits
Personality trait analysis relies on verbal self-report questionnaires. They can be influenced by biases like social desirability.
In high-stakes situations, test subjects may fake their responses to appear favourable. Cultural, linguistic, educational, and socioeconomic factors also influence how traits are expressed.
The Big Five is a scientific model of human personality traits. Though its validity can be influenced by cultural, linguistic, educational, and socioeconomic factors. These limitations should be considered when testing diverse populations. Appropriate adaptation or cultural consideration, may mitigate their impact.
A sixth honesty-humility factor has also been found.
The five factors are:
- openness;
- conscientiousness;
- extraversion;
- agreeableness; and
- neuroticism.
I have taken the Big Five personality test. My results follow.
- conscientious;
- open to experience; and
- neurotic.
- extraversion; and
- agreeableness.
Recognising one's personality traits fosters understanding.
My low agreeableness shows independent thinking and directness. It reflects commitment to authenticity. Though others may consider me inappropriate. Because I value honesty over pleasing people.