Personality Traits:
- Characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior.
- Popular characteristics: Shy, aggressive, submissive, lazy, ambitious, loyal and timid.
Frameworks for identify and classifying traits:
The Myers-Briggs Type indicator (MBTI):
- Personality assessment instrument
- 100 question personality test, ask people about how they usually feel or act in particular situation
- Following traits:
- (A)Extrovert v/s Introvert
- Extrovert includes: Outgoing, sociable, assertive
- Introvert: quiet and shy
- (B)Sensing v/s Intuitive
- Sensing: Practical, prefer routine and order, focus on details
- Intuitive: rely on unconscious process, look at big picture, spontaneous
- (C) Thinking v/s Feeling:
- Thinking: use reasons, logic to handle problems
- Feelings: rely on personal values and emotions
- (D) Judging v/s perceiving:
- Judging: Want control, ordered and structural world (their world)
- Perceiving: flexible and spontaneous
The Big Five Model: (John Bearden)
Five basic dimensions:
- Extroversion:
- Assertive, social, gregarious (found of company)
- Introvert: reserved, quiet, timid (shy, nervous)
- Agreeableness:
- Propensity (tendency) to defer to others.
- High: cooperative, warm, trusting
- Low: cold, disagreeable, antagonistic (opposed, unfriendly)
- Conscientious: Measure of reliability
- High conscientious: responsible, organized, dependable, persistent
- Low: disorganized, unreliable, distracted(unfocused)
- Emotional stability: ability to withstand stress.
- Positive stability: calm, self-confident, secure.
- Negative stability: Nervous, anxious, depressed, insecure
- Openness to experience:
- Range of interests, fascination(charm, attraction) with novelty
- Extreme open: creative, curious and artistically sensitive
- Close: conventional, find comfortable in the familiar.
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