1. The Big 5 Personality Inventory
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The Big 5 Personality Inventory
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2. Today We Will… Explain and describe the Big 5 Test
Describe each of the Big 5 personality characteristics
Describe how each of the Big 5 personality characteristics relate to each other
Identify and describe your Big 5 personality characteristics
Connect your Big 5 personality characteristics to examples from your own life

3. What is the Big 5? A system of classifying personality traits
Describes 5 basic personality traits that generally fit everyone
Helps us to get an understanding of ourselves and others
Tests use behavioural factors and mathematically correlates answers together to describe personality characteristics

4. Big 5 Categories …

5. Personality Exists on a Continuum

6. The Big Five Personality Traits
Extraversion:
Engages with the external world
Being with other people
Often experience positive emotions
Action-oriented
Group interaction and socializing

7. Extroversion

8. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Introversion:
Lower energy and activity levels than extroverts
Quiet or low key
Deliberate
Less social interaction
Independent
Reserved (can be mistaken for unfriendly/ unsociable)

9. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Agreeableness:
Seeks co-operation and social harmony
Considerate, friendly, generous and helpful
Optimistic view of people
Believe that people are usually honest and trustworthy
Usually well-liked

10. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Disagreeableness:
Self-interest above others
Unconcerned with the well-being of others
Skeptical or suspicious of other people
Less co-operative
Objective decision makes- not easily influenced by others

11. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Conscientiousness:
High degree of self-control
Typically avoid trouble
Usually plan and persist at achieving goals
Reliable
Often successful
Can be perfectionists

12. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Unconscientiousness:
Impulsive behaviour (acting without thinking)
Can often get in trouble
Can be unreliable
Thinking about the present, not planning for or thinking about the future
Sometimes show a lack of ambition (drive to achieve)

13. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Neuroticism:
May experience one or most of the following: anxiety, anger, or depression
Emotionally reactive
Responds emotionally to events more so than other
Can view events “out of proportion”
Lengthy emotional periods of frustrtion can affect decision making and thinking clearly

14. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Balanced (emotionally):
Less emotionally responsive and reactive
Free from persistent negative feelings
Able to achieve a greater clarity of though t and decision-making with

15. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Openness to Experience:
Tend to be creative and imaginative
Curious, appreciative of arts and sensitive to beauty
More aware of their own feelings
Tend to be individualistic and non-confirmative
Abstract thinking, symbolic recognition and performance arts

16. The Big 5 Personality Traits
Closed to Experience:
Prefer concrete and straight forward concepts
New ideas or concepts may be viewed with suspicion
Narrower or common interests
Conservative and resistant to change

17. Where do you think you fall?
Hypothesize where you will fall on the spectrum of each category

18. The Big 5 Personality Test
Answer each question honestly
Don’t worry about your results
Use the test as a tool to understand yourself better

19. Take the Big Five Personality Test
If you finish early, complete this:
Compare your results to the first one
When you are done, think of and write examples from your own life that reflects your personality characteristics

20. Show Us Your Results! You will create a poster based on your results
Show where you fell on the OCEAN spectrum
Give an example of how you exemplify each
Include images
Can be done on the computer or by hand