McCrae and Costa McCrae and Costa’s Five-Factor Model of
Personality
BACKGROUND
Extraversion High scores Low scores
- Dispositional paradigm Affectionate Reserved
- Five-factor trait theory Joiner Loner
Talkative Quiet
OVERVIEW Fun loving Sober
Active Passive
Most researchers who study personality Passionate Unfeeling
traits agree that five, and only five, and
no fewer than five dominant traits Neuroticism Anxious Calm
continue to emerge from factor analytic Temperamental Even-
techniques-mathematical procedures Self-pitying tempered
Self-conscious Self-satisfied
capable of sifting personality traits from
Emotional Comfortable
mountains of test data. Vulnerable Unemotional
O – openness Hardy
C – conscientiousness
E – extraversion Openness Imaginative Down-to-
A – agreeableness Creative earth
Original Uncreative
N – neuroticism
Perfect variety Conventional
Curious Prefers
The five-factor trait is bipolar in Liberal routine
nature. Uncurious
Example in Cattell’s theory Conservative
“16pf”, wherein there are global
Agreeableness Softhearted Ruthless
traits and that global traits is Trusting Suspicious
actually similar to the five-factor Generous Stingy
trait theory. Acquiescent Antagonistic
Lenient Critical
THE BIG FIVE Good-natured Irritable
The study of traits was first begun by Allport and Conscientiousness Conscientious Negligent
Odbert in 1930s and continued by Cattell in the Hardworking Lazy
1940s and by Tupes, Christal, and Norman in the Well organized Disorganized
1960s (see John & Srivastava, 1999, for historical Punctual Late
Ambitious Aimless
review of the Five-Factor Model, or the Big Five).
Persevering Quitting
Example of bipolar characteristics of
these traits is, if you get a high score in
extroversion it means you are extrovert
and if it is low score then you are an
introvert.
If you get a low score in neuroticism it
means you’re emotionally stable.
Personality
BACKGROUND
Extraversion High scores Low scores
- Dispositional paradigm Affectionate Reserved
- Five-factor trait theory Joiner Loner
Talkative Quiet
OVERVIEW Fun loving Sober
Active Passive
Most researchers who study personality Passionate Unfeeling
traits agree that five, and only five, and
no fewer than five dominant traits Neuroticism Anxious Calm
continue to emerge from factor analytic Temperamental Even-
techniques-mathematical procedures Self-pitying tempered
Self-conscious Self-satisfied
capable of sifting personality traits from
Emotional Comfortable
mountains of test data. Vulnerable Unemotional
O – openness Hardy
C – conscientiousness
E – extraversion Openness Imaginative Down-to-
A – agreeableness Creative earth
Original Uncreative
N – neuroticism
Perfect variety Conventional
Curious Prefers
The five-factor trait is bipolar in Liberal routine
nature. Uncurious
Example in Cattell’s theory Conservative
“16pf”, wherein there are global
Agreeableness Softhearted Ruthless
traits and that global traits is Trusting Suspicious
actually similar to the five-factor Generous Stingy
trait theory. Acquiescent Antagonistic
Lenient Critical
THE BIG FIVE Good-natured Irritable
The study of traits was first begun by Allport and Conscientiousness Conscientious Negligent
Odbert in 1930s and continued by Cattell in the Hardworking Lazy
1940s and by Tupes, Christal, and Norman in the Well organized Disorganized
1960s (see John & Srivastava, 1999, for historical Punctual Late
Ambitious Aimless
review of the Five-Factor Model, or the Big Five).
Persevering Quitting
Example of bipolar characteristics of
these traits is, if you get a high score in
extroversion it means you are extrovert
and if it is low score then you are an
introvert.
If you get a low score in neuroticism it
means you’re emotionally stable.
