1. The Big 5
PERSONALITY INVETORY

2. What is the Big 5? A system of classifying personality traits
Describes 5 basic personality traits that generally fit everyone
Helps us to get an understanding of ourselves and others
Tests use behavioural factors and mathematically correlates answers together to describe personality characteristics

3. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Extraversion:
Engages with the external world
Being with other people
Often experience positive emotions
Action-oriented
Group interaction and socializing

4. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Extraversion:
Opposite: introversion
Lower energy and activity levels than extraverts
Quiet or low-key
Deliberate (planning)
Less social interaction
Independent
Reserved (can be mistaken for unfriendly/unsociable)

5. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Agreeableness:
Seeks cooperation and social harmony.
Considerate, friendly, generous and helpful.
Optimistic view of people.
Believe that people are usually honest and trustworthy
Usually well-liked

6. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Agreeableness:
Opposite: Disagreeable
Self-interest above others
Unconcerned with the well-being of others
Skeptical or suspicious of other people
Less cooperative
Objective decision makers –not easily influenced by others

7. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Conscientiousness:
High degree of self-control
Typically avoid trouble
Usually plan and persist at achieving goals
Reliable
Often successful
Can be perfectionists

8. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Conscientiousness:
Opposite: Unconscientious
Impulsive behaviour (acting without thinking)
Can often get in trouble
Can be unreliable
Thinking about the present, not planning for or thinking about the future
Sometimes show a lack of ambition (drive to achieve)

9. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Neuroticism:
May experience one or more of the following; anxiety, anger or depression
Emotionally reactive
Responds emotionally to events more so than others
Can view events “out of proportion”
Lengthy emotional periods of frustration can affect decision making and thinking clearly

10. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Neuroticism:
Opposite: Balanced (emotionally)
Less emotionally responsive and reactive
Free from persistent negative feelings
Able to achieve a greater clarity of thought and decision-making with

11. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Openness to Experience:
Tend to be creative and imaginative
Curious, appreciative of arts and sensitive to beauty
More aware of their own feelings
Tend to be individualistic and non-confirmative
Abstract thinking, symbolic recognition and performance arts

12. The Big 5 Personality Traits:
Openness to Experience:
Opposite: Closed to experience
Prefer concrete and straight forward concepts
New ideas or concepts may be viewed with suspicion
Narrower or common interests
Conservative and resistant to change

13. Take the Big 5 Personality Test
Answer each question honestly
Don’t worry about your results
Use the test as a tool to understand yourself better

14. Take the Big 5 Personality Test
When you are finished create a BIG 5 stamp on the front page of your passport. -Just like you did for multiple intelligences
Click HERE to begin the test.
If you finish early, complete THIS QUIZ and compare your results to the first one.