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The big five factor

If you’ve taken a college psychology course or

have any interest in personality, you’ve more
than likely come across the term “Big Five”
personality dimensions or personality traits.
These have been gathered through the result of
decades’ worth of psychological research into
personality. While they don’t capture the
idiosyncrasies of everyone’s personality, it is a
theoretical framework in which to understand
general components of our personality that seem
to be the most important in our social and
interpersonal interactions with others.

Decades of research on personality has

uncovered five broad dimensions of personality.
These so-called Big Five dimensions are called:

• Extraversion (your level of sociability and

enthusiasm)
• Agreeableness (your level of friendliness
and kindness)
• Conscientiousness (your level of
organization and work ethic)
• Emotional Stability (your level of calmness
and tranquility)
• Intellect (your level of creativity and
curiosity)

These are not “types” of personalities, but

dimensions of personality. So someone’s
personality is the combination of each of their Big
Five personality characteristics. For example,
someone may be very sociable (high
Extraversion), not very friendly (low
Agreeableness), hard working (high
Conscientiousness), easily stressed (low
Emotional Stability) and extremely creative (high
Intellect).

A considerable amount of research suggests that

personality is stable throughout life and
associated with a range of important life
outcomes, from academic and occupational
success, to marital stability and physical health.

The AB5C Model of Personality

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The Big Five personality dimensions provide a

very broad overview of someone’s personality. Of
course, there is much more to personality than
someone’s scores on just these five dimensions.

The Abridged Big 5 Circumflex (AB5C) is a

circular model of personality where psychologists
examine traits or “facets” that are essentially
blends of any two of the Big 5 dimensions.

Consider, for instance, someone who is high in

Intellect and high in Extraversion. This person
would be both sociable and creative. But the
combination of high Extraversion and high
Intellect reveals the more subtle characteristic of
being witty or humorous. In contrast, suppose
someone is high in Intellect but low in
Extraversion. The combination of these two
characteristics reveals the quality of being
reflective.

Because people can be high or low on each of the

Big Five dimensions, when we combine the
different possible combinations, we end up with
45 personality facets from which we can compute
Big Five personality scores.

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