The purpose of this investigation is to determine if there is a difference between the median agreeableness score of females to the median agreeableness score of males according to data collected from the results of people who chose to take the Big 5 Personality test on a publicly accessible site.
I chose to investigate the agreeableness score because when I took the online personality test this is the trait in which I scored the highest on so I was interested in
The data is sourced from the online “Big 5 Personality Test” and is a random sample from the results from people who chose to take the test on a publicly accessible website.
The agreeableness score is the score of agreeableness on a scale from 1 to 5 points where 1 is the least agreeable and 5 is the most agreeable. The gender is either male or female.
I have chosen to use the median as it is a more accurate representation of the population because the mean could be skewed by extreme values.
I will be analysing a sample of 491 randomly selected results of participants of the Big 5 test. I have noticed that both of my groups a relatively similar size with 248 females and 243 males.
I will analyse this sample using iNZight to produce the data displays and the bootstrap confidence interval for which I will make an inference about the population of participants who took the online Big 5 personality test.
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The Big 5 personality test is a test which analyses the big 5 personality traits which is used as a model of personality. The 5 traits are extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and I have chosen to investigate agreeableness.
Agreeableness reveals the difference between individuals concern regarding cooperation and social harmony. ...
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... by doing a randomisation test for the samples. This involves mixing the two samples and then splitting them back into two groups, which are the same size as the original groups but both of the two groups will contain male and female agreeableness score. The randomisation test will resample the new groups 1000 times and plot the difference between the medians of the two mixed groups.
Out of the 1000 differences that were produced just by sampling variation, none were as large as the difference of 0.4 points produced by the two samples. This shows that a difference of 0.4 or larger is very unlikely to be produced by sampling variation alone when there is no link between the agreeableness score and gender. I can safely conclude that the data provides strong evidence that the median agreeableness score of females is greater than the median agreeableness score of males.
The Big Five is the most widely accepted and used model of personality. The model consists of broad dimensions of personality traits. These dimensions are: Openness to Experience/Intellect, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. Upon completion of the Big Five Personality test, my results were somewhat surprising to me. Overall, I scored on the low end for Openness to Experience/Intellect, Extraversion and Neuroticism dimensions and on the high end for Conscientiousness and Agreeableness dimensions.
The Personality Test was taken from (Grivas, et al., 1996). As it contained appropriate questions to test the Personality Types A and
After Allport, came along two psychologists, Raymond Cattell and Hans Eysenck, who each formulated their own theories regarding traits. Their theories have been the subjects of considerable research in the world of psychology. Cattell seemed to focus on far too many traits, while Eysenck seemed to focus on too few. As a result, psychologists have combined the two theories to make one satisfactory theory (Cherry), called “The Big Five Factors” (Myers). They are: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extraversion. These five factors merge to create the human personality (Cherry). Where people fall into these factors s...
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Personality is massive part of an individual’s identity. Our personalities dictate our patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. An individual’s personality exposes them to predispositions and habits that influence their actions and lives. Early on, personality assessments consisted of physical features ranging from head shape and facial characteristics to body type. In today’s world, personality assessments are mainly based around traits. Traits are simply descriptions of one’s habitual patterns of behavior, thought and emotion. The most popular personality assessment is the Five-Factor Model, also known as The Big Five. This model allows us to describe people based on the five main traits/dimensions. These traits are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. Each of these five traits measures a different aspect of one’s personality. Extraversion is based on one’s level of engagement with the world,
A person’s personality has been the subject of psychological scrutiny for many years. Psychologists have drawn up several theories in an attempt to accurately predict and determine one’s personality. Foremost amongst these, is the “Big Five Trait Theory” which stemmed from Raymond B. Cattell’s theory.
Personality psychologists that were fascinated in what distinguishes one individual from another created the Big Five Personality test to conclude why we act the way we do as john stated (John). The Big Five Personality traits can be summarized into five separate groups starting with neurotic, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and Openness/experience. John states that in the systematic group The Big Five is now the most precise and most benefited model (John). After taking the Personality tests myself the results seemed pretty accurate to what I was expecting but in some of the categorize I was a little bit shocked as well.
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These scales are commonly alternatively represented by the OCEAN acronym Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion/Introversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. The Big Five structure captures, at a broad level of abstraction, commonalities among most of the existing systems of personality description, and provides an integrative descriptive model for personality research. (Oliver& Sanjay 1999)
My second highest score came from Perfectionist behavior. I think this tie hand in hand with Affiliative, in the sense I am trying hard to be accepted by others. I find that I am never satisfied with a situation, and find solutions for creating a challenge. Like I stated, I don’t let myself become to comfortable, so by becoming distant, I create a challenge for myself. I am not satisfied with a relationship if I am too comfortable, I try to find ways to improve. I have high standards which result in disappointment from people and myself if they aren’t met. At work I find competition, when I am not at the best, I am trying to always improve. I find this exhausting, because it is never enough.
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The Five-Factor Model of Personality is a system used in order to describe an individual’s personality traits. By requiring said individual to answer a series of questions, this test is able to decipher the traits that are most likely evident within their life. The Five-Factor Model of Personality test gives the test subject a series of situational options. Using the subject’s responses, psychologist match the answers to the personality in which best relates. A highly accurate description of ones’ personality can be easily configured by using the Five-Factor Model of Personality by testing either high or low in the following areas; openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
4) With Agreeableness I ranked at 83% with the description of good-natured, courteous and supportive. Being my agreeable self, I agree with this assessment. I have a natural affinity for empathy and sympathizing with others. 5) In Neuroticism I ranked at 37% - generally relaxed. This is also accurate. I would probably rank lower if it weren’t for being a worry wart, which is linked to my high conscientiousness. People often comment on how easy-going I am, but if they could see what goes on underneath th...