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Personality Characteristics Essay

Psychology The author of this report is to answer to two different psychology-related questions. The first question asks the author of this report to speak to how certain career people would tend to fit into the five factor model. The second and final question asks the author of this report to take an online personality assessment and share the results. While making broad generalizations about the first of those two questions would be unwise, there are patterns and trends that would make themselves clear and personality tests like the one taken in the second question would be much more precise.

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The five factors of the Five Factor grouping are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. The president of a corporation would absolutely tend to have extraversion and neuroticism as the main foci. To be specific, they would tend to be secure and confident as well as outgoing and energetic....

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A religious figure would have agreeableness (friendly/compassionate) and extraverted (outgoing/energetic). Finally, an artist would possess openness to experience (inventive/curious) and agreeableness .
The personality test that was taken by the author of this report was the Meyers Briggs (MBTI instrument. The outcomes of the Meyers Briggs model is quite similar to the Five Factor model, although there are only four sets of dimensions. These four dimensions are extraversion vs. introversion, sensing vs. intuition, thinking vs. feeling and judging vs. feeling. Extraversion vs. introversion is fairly straightforward. Sensing vs. intuition and the rest are a little more complicated. Sensing are people that seek solutions whiole intuition people look at the big picture. Thinking people are those that enjoy technical/scientific fields where logic is important, that notice inconsistency, that…

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MBTI. (2014, September 28). The Myers & Briggs Foundation. The Myers & Briggs Foundation. Retrieved September 28, 2014, from http://www.myersbriggs.org/

Rathus, S.A. (2013). PSYCH (3rd ed.). Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.
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