big five personalitiy
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The most popular approach among psychologists for studying personality traits is the Big Five Personality Theory. The five factors resulted from a factor analysis of a vast number of self and peer reported personality-relevant objectives and questionnaire items. The five factors are neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. These five factors are made up of various dimensions in order that they reach the continuous variations of people in them, so most people fall in between the extremes. The factors maintain stability over a 45-year period beginning in adulthood. They are genetically inherited and probably had adaptive qualities in an early environment. The factors have been known to be universal and knowing one's placement is vital for insight and advancement in therapy.
The first factor in the theory of personality is openness. I scored in the 80th percentile, which indicates that I am original, curious, and complex. I feel that this unique quality allows my personality to be multidimensional...