Your behavior, thoughts, and feelings are all characteristics that form your personality. Your traits suggest stability and consistency. The most basic traits that stay the same over a period of time are the traits that go to form your personality. The Five-Factor Model of Personality puts five major traits together collectively and we use the acronym OCEAN to remember the five. OCEAN stands for Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. People are all different and have different personalities so when testing a person under these categories. Someone might score higher in extraversion and agreeableness, but lower in neuroticism. The five major traits have subcategories because if it were just based off of that one word and that words synonyms than it would not be as accurate, so there are other personality traits that are more detailed and broaden our understanding of personality.
My scores for The Five-Factor Model of Personality was interesting and I mostly agree with the results that I received. My Extraversion score was 14 and the two highest subcategories were assertiveness and friendliness. I expected this score to be lower because I like be alone and don't get me wrong I love spending time with friends and family I just do not seek out exciting, out-going things. My Agreeableness score was 33 and I scored higher in cooperation and modesty in the subcategories. I'm not really surprised by this score either, I like the peace to be kept and I don't like conflict. My scores for Neuroticism and Conscientiousness were 60 and 61 and that makes these two my highest scoring of the five major traits. The Neuroticism score scares me a little because I think of it as being negative, but its scored on emotional reactivity and how well you respond to stress and how you deal with certain things. I expected my conscientiousness score to be one of my higher scores because I like to be on-time and well organized. My Openness score was 1. I agree partially with this score because I do like to try new things and do new things, but at the end of the day I will take my routine and practicality over flying by the seat of my pants.
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This sounds like an interesting assessment test. I did a different one by Myers briggs but i am interested now to see what my scores on this one would be. thank you for being so open with your results.
ReplyDeleteRachel, this test sounds very interesting, and I was also surprised by some of scores and wondered what my scores would be if I took this test. Your blog was very well explained and very easy to follow. Good job!
ReplyDeleteRachel, I took this test as well and loved it. I have since made several friends take it because I'm curious as to where they fall. My results are almost completely opposite to yours, I was high on extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism, and I scored average on openness and only got a 5 on consciousness.
ReplyDeleteI learned a lot about my self that I had thought of before, like I am actually an extrovert but I get over whelmed with large social events so I thought that meant i was an introvert. What did you discover most about yourself with this?
I also like having a plan rather than being spontaneous. My family always made fun of me when my schedule got knocked out of order. It is interesting to see your scores actually correlate to how you feel your personality is. In my opinion, no one knows you better than yourself. When taking these tests I really look into myself to see if they are actually something that I have, and if I don't like what I see, I try my best to get rid of those negative things. Really good blog, I enjoyed reading.
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