Many theories describe a person’s character, their traits and aim to predict some of the critical life events based on these factors. Catell’s Big Five Personality Traits are “neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness” (Lim, 2020, para. 3). Each of these characteristics is a continuum, which means then any person will have a different percentage of each of the five factors. For this assignment, I selected my uncle Joe who works as a sales representative. In terms of extraversion, he is very sociable. He quickly engages in a conversation even with people he does not know well. Hence, in the Big Five extraversion continuum, he is more extroverted and introverted. Next, in terms of openness to new experiences, one can be either opened or closed to something new. Joe falls on the far right side of this spectrum because he is very open to anything new and is always happy to try things he has never done before.
The following characteristic is conscientiousness, where one can be either spontaneous or conscious. Although the Big Five characteristics stay the same for most of one’s life, I would argue that in terms of conscientiousness, Joe has changed as he used to be more spontaneous several years ago. Still, on the spectrum, his character is more spontaneous than conscious. Finally, in terms of agreeableness, his personality gravitates towards the center of the range, meaning that he is generally not hostile but also that he does not agree with everything. Thus, in terms of this characteristic, he is very balanced. In summary, this paper describes the four out of the Big Five personality traits using the example of my uncle Joe.
Reference
Lim, A. (2021). Big Five personality traits. Web.