Big 5 Inventory Analysis

After completing the Big 5 Inventory, I am shocked by the results. The one that surprised me the most was agreeableness. I scored pretty low on that one which is shocking because it says I find it easy to criticize others, but I don’t find myself to be critical at all. My mom said the same thing, but it does take me a lot to forgive people depending on the situation. I scored pretty high on the extraversion which isn’t a shocker at all. I love to talk, especially to tons of different people. My family easily agreed that this result was very accurate. I scored low for conscientiousness which makes sense at certain times. When it comes to my room, I love it to be cleaned and organized, but I can easily mess it up in seconds. My mom agrees with the fact that I can one of the most organized and messy person at the same time. For open-mindedness I scored a little under 50%, which is and is not surprising. I
I was always an extremely forgiving person as long as you made an attempt to make things right. This changed because I was disappointed by the fact that some people do wrong multiple times. Negative emotionality has also changed over time because as a child, I had no worries. If my mom wasn’t my mom, she would say I don’t seem like a worried person at all. When I was little, she said I said whatever, whenever, and I didn’t care what anyone thought. Now, I still like to do everything, but between her and I, I do get anxious and worried. “Despite the many theoretical reasons for expecting dramatic changes in personality during late adolescence and the transition to young adulthood, the research literature suggests that radical changes in personality traits do not actually occur during this period” (Robin, Noftle, & Roberts). A lot of people feel in college is where their personality changes, but it isn’t. People say their personality has changed in order to make them feel better because they are a “new