Essays on Big Five Personality Traits

Personality traits are typically defined as descriptions of people in terms of relatively stable patterns of behavior, thoughts and emotions (McGrae & Costa, 2003). They are combined into five broad trait dimensions that lead onto orthogonal factors; and are known as the five factor model...

Throughout this chapter, researchers are going to investigate what are relevant concepts and the theoretical aspects which relates to the current study by using opinions and definitions of early scholars. Theoretical aspect of a study provides further information about the impact of Personality traits on...

The aim of conducting this research is to study the correlation between Irrational belief, Aggression and Big five personality traits. There were 266 participants which were approached through convenient sampling from different departments of University of Karachi. Three scales including Koopersman irrational belief inventory, Buss...

The relationship between personality and job performance has been a frequently studied topic in industrial psychology in the past century (Barrick, Mount & Judge, 2001). Understanding its people is as important to a company as understanding its operations and processes. Behaviors can come from different...

Nowadays personality traits are becoming more and more vital in recruitment and personal assessments, it is aiming to forecast possible academic success and work performance in different settings. Openness was one of the five characteristics of the theory of the Big Five. It shows whether...

Personality is defined as the individual differences in characteristic set of cognition, affect, and behavior. It forms the distinctive attributes of an individual, and it is what makes us who we are. In 1981, Goldberg’s ground-breaking work has successfully narrowed down Cattell’s 16 personality factors...

Over the past few decades, a growing number of researches regarding personality has emerged and has mainly revolved around five dimensions: Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to experience and Extraversion, these are the basis of personality. There are many personality tests such as, the Myers...