The Big Five

While learning about personality, we learned that there are hundreds of different traits that a person could have. Robert McCrae and Paul Costa said that most of these traits can be resulting from just five higher order traits that are known as the “Big Five.” These five traits are Extraversion, Neuroticism, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Doing a self report on the Big Five I would say:
I am higher on the extraversion scale because I am very outgoing. I enjoy going to parties, especially parties where I get to meet knew people and I like being around other people. When I am sitting at my house by myself I am always wishing that I was at a friend’s house. I would score myself very low on the neuroticism scale because I am very friendly. I always find myself introducing myself to new people. And while most people are nervous about going off to college by themselves without all their former friends as a security blanket, I am counting down the days until I get to meet my new roommate. I am very open to experience. I am always traveling around the world to experience different cultures and see how other people live their lives compared to myself. I would score myself pretty high on the agreeableness scale because whenever my friends need someone to vent to or have some one cheer them up they usually come to me because they know that I am someone who won’t go out and tell other people about what is going on. Also I would score myself very high on the conscientiousness scale because I am not a big procrastinator. A great example of this was in my foods class. For Innovative snack lab, our big project that we have to do is a cook book with different recopies we find our selves along with ones that we make up on our own. This project was assigned at the beginning of the semester and isn’t due until the end of May. I ended up finishing mine back in February. I feel that my personality has helped me to be a person that many people tend to get along with and one that people enjoy being around.