What is the big five ? How it originated ? Evolution Five Factors Advantages

1. THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS
- Ahsanah- Roshan

2. WHAT IS THE BIG FIVE ?
 Personality Traits or Personality Dimensions.
 An integration of personality research that represents the various
personality descriptions in one common framework.
 Individual differences in social and emotional life organized into a
five-factor model of personality.

3. HOW IT ORIGINATED ?
 Traits theorists suggested various number of possible traits.
 Allport’s 4000 personality traits, Cattell’s 16 personality factors and
Eysenck’s three factor theory.
 Cattell’s theory eventually proved too complex.
 Eysenck’s theory too limited in scope.
 Thus working on Gerontology research Centre of National Institute of
Health in Baltimore, Maryland, Robert McCrae and Paul Costa embarked
on an extensive research program.
 Thereby The Big Five Factor Theory Emerged.

4. Evidence of this theory grew extensively over the past 50 years, beginning with the research
of D. W. Fiske (1949) and later expanded upon by Norman (1963), smith (1967), Goldberg
(1981), and McCrae & Costa (1990)
Evolution of “The Big Five”
Fiske (1949)
• Confident Self-
Expression
• Social Adaptability
• Conformity
• Emotional Control
• Inquiring intellect
Norman (1963)
• Surgency
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness
• Emotional
Stability
• Culture
McCrae & Costa (1990)
• Neuroticism
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness
• Openness to Experience

5.  Openness to Experience
 Conscientiousness
 Extraversion
 Agreeableness
 Neuroticism
THE FIVE FACTORS

6. OPENNESS

7. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS

8. EXTRAVERSION

9. AGREEABLENESS

10. NEUROTICISM

11. It is the most widely accepted and Used model of Personality.
Most practical and applicable model available in the field of personality
psychology.
Provide explanation of leader and follower tendencies.
Useful categorization scheme for discussion.
Successfully works in many environments.
Tend to be constant over time.
Good profiling for corporate and occupational functions.
Universally accepted across cultures.

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