What is personality?
Personality refers to the enduring traits and behaviors that make up a person’s unique adaptation to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concepts, abilities, and emotional patterns. Different theories explain the structure and development of personality in various ways, but all agree that describing our personality provides a certain pattern for our behavior in daily life.
Big Five Model
The Big Five (also known as the Big Five) is the most reliable and tested theory of personality traits. This theory assumes that a person’s personality consists of five main components (and thirty smaller ones), whose intensity can be described on a scale (e.g., 1-10). Due to the five basic areas, the Big Five is also known as the Five-Factor Model of Personality or OCEAN (an acronym from the English names of the main scales).
Five-Factor Model of Personality OCEAN
Openness to experience
(from English, Openness to experience) – which refers to the willingness to maintain a distance from novelty and experiences or openness to new sensations and experiences
Conscientiousness
(from English, Conscientiousness) – which refers to the desire to be dutiful or to place greater importance on spontaneity
Extraversion
(from English Extraversion) – which refers to the need to be with people, or the need for distance and reserve from the social world
Agreeableness
(from English Agreeableness) – which refers to relationships with people and the desire to maintain distance or closeness to others.
Neuroticism
(from English Neuroticism) – which refers to emotional resilience, or sensitivity to difficulties in various situations