The Big Five Psychological Characteristics

Why did you choose this concept to research? The “Big Five” personality traits and the tests that show you what where on the scale of each of the five traits you fit are concepts that were introduce to me actually in high school. And it was interesting to see how I have changed in terms of the five traits from the first time I took the test to most recently when I did the test again. The reason that I choose the “Big Five” personality traits, as the concept that I would research is because my educational background is in psychology. When I was an undergraduate student, I took courses in personality as well as courses in psychological testing and assessments, and the personality tests were my favourite out of all the tests that we were taught to administer. I found the results to be especially interesting and I thought it would be interesting to see how psychological concepts can be applied to organizations and the workplace.

How did practitioners/researchers define the concept beyond the definition provided by the textbook? The traits that comprise the “Big Five” personality traits are as follows: neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, and agreeableness. All five traits

For instance when looking at job satisfaction a person high in neuroticism is more likely to be less satisfied in their job (Judge, Heller & Mount, 2002). Actually they would probably be unhappy in most areas of their life as the trait if neuroticism often leads to people who are highly neurotic viewing everything in a negative. Another definition by other researcher is that neuroticism is actually a general way of reacting to any situation (Neal, Yeo, Koy & Xiao, 2012). This obviously refers to how highly neurotic people tend to be very suspicious and paranoid of everything and everyone compare to those who core low on