Big Five Personality Traits
Encyclopedia of Social Psychology
Big Five Personality Traits
Contributors: Corinna E. Löckenhoff & Paul T. Costa Jr.
Editors: Roy F. Baumeister & Kathleen D. Vohs
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology
Chapter Title: "Big Five Personality Traits"
Pub. Date: 2007
Access Date: March 16, 2015
Publishing Company: SAGE Publications, Inc.
City: Thousand Oaks
Print ISBN: 9781412916707
Online ISBN: 9781412956253
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956253.n67
Print pages: 116-118
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Definition
The Big Five personality traits are the most basic dimensions that shape the structure of human personality and underlie the regularities in people's thinking, feeling, and behavior. The Big Five are dimensional, which means that each of them describes a continuum between two extreme poles. All people, regardless of gender, age, or culture, share the same basic personality traits, but people differ in their relative standing on each of the traits. The individual Big Five are Neuroticism (vs. Emotional Stability),
Extraversion (or Surgency), Openness to Experience (also called Culture or Intellect),
Agreeableness (vs. Antagonism), and Conscientiousness. As a memory aid, note that the first letters can be rearranged to spell OCEAN, a term that suggests the vast scope of this model in encompassing personality traits.
The Big Five Dimensions
Personality is structured hierarchically; at the broadest or domain level are the Big Five, and below them, at a lower level of generality, are narrower traits or facets. Thus, each of the Big Five dimensions is a combination of several distinct but closely related traits or characteristics. For
Big Five Personality Traits
Contributors: Corinna E. Löckenhoff & Paul T. Costa Jr.
Editors: Roy F. Baumeister & Kathleen D. Vohs
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology
Chapter Title: "Big Five Personality Traits"
Pub. Date: 2007
Access Date: March 16, 2015
Publishing Company: SAGE Publications, Inc.
City: Thousand Oaks
Print ISBN: 9781412916707
Online ISBN: 9781412956253
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956253.n67
Print pages: 116-118
©2007 SAGE Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
This PDF has been generated from SAGE knowledge. Please note that the pagination of the online version will vary from the pagination of the print book.
Queensland University of Techn
©2007 SAGE Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
SAGE knowledge
http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956253.n67
Definition
The Big Five personality traits are the most basic dimensions that shape the structure of human personality and underlie the regularities in people's thinking, feeling, and behavior. The Big Five are dimensional, which means that each of them describes a continuum between two extreme poles. All people, regardless of gender, age, or culture, share the same basic personality traits, but people differ in their relative standing on each of the traits. The individual Big Five are Neuroticism (vs. Emotional Stability),
Extraversion (or Surgency), Openness to Experience (also called Culture or Intellect),
Agreeableness (vs. Antagonism), and Conscientiousness. As a memory aid, note that the first letters can be rearranged to spell OCEAN, a term that suggests the vast scope of this model in encompassing personality traits.
The Big Five Dimensions
Personality is structured hierarchically; at the broadest or domain level are the Big Five, and below them, at a lower level of generality, are narrower traits or facets. Thus, each of the Big Five dimensions is a combination of several distinct but closely related traits or characteristics. For