Big Five Personality Traits
Definition
The Big Five Personality Traits are five broad dimensions used to describe human personality. These include openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, introversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Analogy
Imagine the Big Five Personality Traits as a music equalizer with five sliders. Each slider represents one trait and can be adjusted up or down to create your unique personality mix.
Related terms
Conscientiousness: This is one of the Big Five factors; it refers to how organized, responsible, dependable, and persistent an individual is.
Agreeableness: Another factor from Big Five; it involves being kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful etc.
Introversion: It's part of the extraversion-introversion spectrum in Big Five model; introverts are typically more reserved and less outgoing than extroverts.
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