Five Types Of Personality Essay

There are five different traits of personality. They are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. To find out how each of these different types applied to me. I took a five-minute test which gave me results for each of these types of personality. In this essay I will describe each of these types of personality traits and I will explain how each of them pertains to me. The first type of personality trait is openness. Openness regarding personality is the tendency to appreciate new art, ideas, values, feelings, and behaviors. People can either be in the low-scoring range or the high-scoring range. People in the low-scoring range are generally inartistic, down-to-earth, and they have narrow interests (Diener, 2017). People in the high-scoring range are generally curious, imaginative, and untraditional (Diener,2017). The score on my test stated that I received a sixteen out of nineteen for women. My test results for openness indicated that I am in the low-scoring range. Some behaviors that can indicate these results as true are when I am in an art museum I

Neuroticism is the tendency to frequently have negative emotions such as anger, worry, and sadness. Low-scorers in this trait are usually not irritated by small annoyances, unemotional, secure, and self-satisfied (Diener, 2017). High-scorers generally are constantly worrying about different things big or little, they tend to be very insecure, and they can tend to feel inadequate (Diener, 2017). My score on the personality test indicated that I was in the average range for the Neuroticism category with a score of fourteen out of fifteen for women. Some of the ways this is shown in my personality is I can be insecure at times especially with my appearance, but I can also feel secure an example of me being secure is with my school work. I can also be very emotional at times but other times I certain things won’t bother