Big 5 Personality

Submitted by daggomit on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM

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Big 5 Personality

The Big-5 Personality test is a test designed to give the person taking the test an accurate judgment of their personality as compared to other persons personalities with the same sex and similar age. Overall I scored average in all of the five major dimensions of the test: Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. Each of the five dimensions are subdivided into six separate categories of which all are scored on a low to high scale.
The first dimension is extraversion and is separated into friendliness, Gregariousness, assertiveness, activity level, excitement seeking, and cheerfulness. All of the subcategories for this section I scored an average with the exception of friendliness and cheerfulness both of which I scored high. I would agree with all of the scores in this section.
The second dimension is agreeableness and is subdivided into trust, morality, altruism, cooperation, modesty, and sympathy. My scores in this section were all over the board. I scored high in trust altruism and sympathy, low in morality and modesty, and average in cooperation. I would also agree with all of my scores in this section.
Thirdly is conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is divided into self-efficacy, orderliness, dutifulness, achievement-striving, self-discipline, and cautiousness. I scored average in self-efficacy, dutifulness, achievement-striving, and cautiousness. I scored high in orderliness, and low in self-discipline. This is the first group where I began to disagree with the results. A high score in orderliness was not what I expected and do not feel that I am the organized person that the test would lead you to believe. I also disagreed with the low score in self-discipline, I feel that I should rank at least average in self-discipline. I work hard to support myself and manage my own life to get the things done that I need to do. I may not always do the things in the most productive...

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