THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITIES

What is Personality?

• Sum of total ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with its surroundings and others.

• Stable set of striking characteristics, responsible for person’s identity.

Heredity

Environmental factors

Situations Conditions

PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS

• These were the few famous people whom may know by name but will remember them by their personalities.

• In order to study the personality traits, describing an individual’s behavior, categorization, a model was developed called , Big Five Personality Model.

A brief history

• In 1961, Ernest Tupes, Raymond Christal and Norman found 5 reoccuring factors of personalities and named them, SURGENCY, AGREEABLENESS, DEPENDABILITY,EMOTIONAL STABLILITY AND CULTURE.

• Lewis Goldberg in 1980, extended the work and coined the name as THE BIG FIVE

So the question arises why should we study BIG FIVE MODEL

• As a recruiter, it helps to find the candidates with personalities, best matching the roles the company is offering.

• As an applicant, one can use to insight from this model to better understand him/herself and the type of role he/she is most likely to enjoy and grow with.

• When a person's personality doesn't fit the job, everyone loses.

conscientiouness

Extroversion

AgreeablenessNeuroticism

Openness to experiences

OCEAN

Psychologists have conducted numerous tests to give scores and classify people under different personalities .

Such one test is given at the end of this presentation.

Extroversion LOW

Reserved Timid Quite

This dimension captures one’s comfort level with relationship. High score in Extroversion indicates high performance in the managerial and sales positions as these occupations involve high social interaction.

HIGH Gregarious Assertive Sociable

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Agreeableness

Agreeableness LOW

ColdDisagreeableAntagonistic

The agreeableness scale is linked to altruism, nurturance,

caring and emotional support versus competitiveness, hostility, indifference, self-centeredness, spitefulness and jealousy. Agreeable people can be described as altruistic, gentle, kind, sympathetic and warm.

HIGH

Cooperative Warm Empathetic Trusting

ConscientiousnessLOW

Easily DistractedDisorganizedUnreliable

Conscientiousness is a measure of goal-directed behaviour and amount of control over impulses. It has been linked to educational achievement and particularly to the will to achieve. The focused person concentrates on a limited number of goals but strives hard to reach them, while the flexible person is more impulsive and easier to persuade from one task to another. The more conscientious a person is, the more competent, dutiful, orderly, responsible and thorough.

HIGH

Responsible Organized Dependable Persistent

Neuroticism LOW

Self-Confident CalmSecure

Neuroticism (opposite of Emotional stability) is measure of affect and emotional control , most strongly related to life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and to low stress levels. High scores on emotional stability also are associated with fewer health complaints. One upside for low emotional stability: When in a bad mood, such people make faster and better decisions compared to emotionally stable people in bad moods.

HIGH

Feeling of guilt

Anxious Depressed Insecure Loneliness Jealousy

A neurotic person under high stress levels

Openness to experienceLOW

Un-ImaginativeInflexibleLiteral-mindedDull

  It is a measure of depth, breadth and variability in a person's imagination and urge for experiences. The factor relates to intellect, openness to new ideas, cultural interests, educational aptitude and creativity as well as an interest in varied sensory and cognitive experiences. People with a high openness to experience have broad interests, are liberal and like novelty. The preservers with low openness to experience are conventional, conservative and prefer familiarity.

HIGH

Creative Flexible Curious Artistic

TEST

INTRODUCTIONThis is a personality test, it will help you understand why you act the way that you do and how your personality is structured. Please follow the instructions below.Scoring and results are on the coming slides.

InstructionsIn the table on next slide, for each statement 1-50 mark how much you agree with on the scale 1-5, where1=disagree,2=slightly disagree,3=neutral, 4=slightly agree and5=agree.

SCORING

Below is a graph of how other people scored when test was offered(normal dist.)

References Journal Reference:• Robert R. McCrae, Oliver P. John, An Introduction to the Five-Factor Model and Its applications

Book:• Robbins, Michael, Conceiving of Personality• Langton, Robbins and Judge, Organizational Behaviour, Fifth Ed.

TEST:• The Big Five Personality Test from personality-testing.info ,courtesy ipip.ori.org

Websites:

• http://www.informationr.net/ir/9-1/paper165.html• http://personality-testing.info/tests/BIG5.php • http://psychologytoday.tests.psychtests.com/take_test.php?idRegTest=1297