Week 14: The Big Five Theory

What is the Big Five

Personality Traits  Or Personality Dimensions
An integration of personality research that represents the various personality descriptions in one common framework.
Individual differences in social and emotional life organized into a five-factor model of personality.
“broad abstract level and each dimension summarized a larger number of …. personality characteristics”.

Human resources professionals often use the Big Five personality dimensions to help place employees. That is because these dimensions are considered to be the underlying traits that make up an individual’s overall personality:

 

 

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