How to Define Your Personality with the Big 5 Traits (OCEAN) Test

How would you describe your personality? What makes up your character?
When it comes to the psychology of personality people often talk about either types or traits. The difference between traits and types reflects the distinction between analogue and digital.
Personality type theory is more digital, saying that something either is or isn’t of a certain sort. For example, a test using the ‘type’ approach will say you are either extroverted or introverted. It does not illustrate to what degree you are either introverted, or extroverted, and the same with other traits. In other words, it is less nuanced. The Myers-Briggs test uses this more binary approach of typology.
Traits are analogue as they measure aspects of character on a spectrum. For example, we might be more or less of a team player. The Big 5 model uses this approach to understanding personality and is the preferred tool of most psychologists when it comes to personality tests.
The Big 5, which stands for five personality traits (also known by the acronym OCEAN) was developed by a series of researchers but is most closely associated with the work of Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.
The 5 traits of the OCEAN model are:
O - Openness
C - Conscientiousness
E - Extroversion
A - Agreeableness
N - Neuroticism
The traits are generally measured by the use of psychometric questionnaires that indicate preferences and create scores expressed on a scale.
There is an explanation of each trait in the video and further detail in the accompanying article that you can access with this link:
therightquestions.co/how-to-w...
If you would like to do a free personality test then I recommend trying out:
openpsychometrics.org
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