1. Personality Styles
The Big 5

2. Personality
Personality can be defined as a dynamic and organized set of personal traits and patterns of behavior.

3. Personality Personality includes: * Attitudes * Ways of thinking
* Feelings * Impulses
* Desires * Actions
* Responses to opportunity and stress
* Everyday forms of interacting with others

4. Personality Style
"Your personality style is your organizing principle. It represents the orderly arrangement of all your attributes, thoughts, feelings, attitudes, behaviors, and coping mechanisms.
It is the distinctive pattern of your psychological functioning—the way you think, feel, and behave—that makes you definitely you."
Oldham and Morris

5. Big Five Personality Traits
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

6. Big Five Personality Traits
Openness - appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience
The trait distinguishes imaginative people from down-to-earth, conventional people.

7. Big Five Personality Traits
Conscientiousness - a tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; planned rather than spontaneous behavior.
The trait shows a preference for planned rather than spontaneous behavior.

8. Big Five Personality Traits
Extraversion - energy, positive emotions, urgency, and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others.
Extraverts enjoy being with people, and are often perceived as full of energy.

9. Big Five Personality Traits
Agreeableness - a tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others.
The trait reflects individual differences in general concern for social harmony. Agreeable individuals value getting along with others.

10. Big Five Personality Traits
Neuroticism - a tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability; sometimes called emotional instability.
They are more likely to interpret ordinary situations as threatening, and minor frustrations as hopelessly difficult.