The Big Five (Ocean)
ABSTRACT
Understanding personality science is the key to optimizing your behaviour and getting to control working dynamics. Every single person has inherited traits from their parents, created others in their childhood and nurtured a complicated, self-developed and multi-dimensional set of characteristics that eventually will define them as a person and their relationships with their surroundings. Researchers have found that there is a science to personality and grouped them into 5 dimensions, fondly known as the Big Five or using the acronym O.C.E.A.N (can also be referred as C.A.N.O.E). Developed from the 1980s onward in psychology traits and with factor analysis applied to personality surveys, these cited dimensions grew to be: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism.
This article presents the results of a review of numerous studies, to provide a comprehensive overview of the differences between traits and how these affect us. It aims to identify how we can benefit from our “default settings” to build competent working teams and manage big programs or projects through the remark of pioneer individual skills that will germinate in the essential rapport of an entire team. The five basic personality traits is a theory developed in 1949 by D.W. Fiske and later expanded upon by other researchers including Norman (1967), Smith (1981) and McCrae and Cost (1987). We will dive upon the years spent trying to pin down character traits as a way of analysing people’s attitudes and how they were reduced from 4000, to 16 and eventually 5.
TABLE OF CONTENT
The Big Five Personalities
1.1. Openness
1.2. Conscientiousness
1.3. Extraversion
1.4. Agreeableness
1.5. Neuroticism
History of the theory
2.1.Ealy stages of development
2.2 Modern Psychology
How Personality affects you
3.1.Gender and cultural differences
3.2. Biological and development factors.
3.3.The Facial mapping processes
Working with different personalities on a Team
4.1.Relationships
4.2.Predicting behaviour at work
How are they measured?
Conclusion
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