¶ … Blair Hornstein's personality through the Five Factor theory and Psychoanalytic theory. It has 3 sources. Personality theories vary in their concepts, definition and usage. Due to this variability one, as an analyst can identify and associate with personality thereby understands people's characteristics, behaviors and the way interact within their environment. In this paper the researcher has chosen the McCrae and Costa's Five Factor Theory and Freud's Psychoanalytical Theory to analyze a media personality Blair Hornstein.

Blair Hornstein, a student of New Jersey is an 18-year-old girl who successfully caught the attention of the media, U.S. Courts and the U.S. President with her legal suit against her school Moorestown High School earlier this year. Her suit has been based on the fact that she wants to be the sole valedictorian of her class as she has A plus grades while the school wanted her to share the title with two other students with A minus grades. She refused and sued the School on the basis that she should have the sole title. The School objected her refusal on the basis that she suffers from immune deficiency for the past two years and as a result received home tutoring whereas the other two students could not compete with her grades due to extracurricular activities at school which often lower grade points. She has been rescinded admission at Harvard University on account of plagiarism and currently awaiting decision at the State Court for a $2.7 million suit as punitive damages (NBC...

She is also ambitious whose aim in life is to be part of the Ivy League and to become a lawyer.
What makes this "disabled" and yet ambitious individual to sue her school for a mere title; why did she sue and not attend her high school graduation ceremony; but most of all what are some of the factors that motivated her to engage in a battle against the world? These are some of the questions that plague her friends, fellow students, teachers and the readers alike and which perhaps could be explained by the following theories.

McCrae and Costa's Five Factor Theory

According to the Five Factor theory," extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience (or culture) have been correlated with many other personality traits and some behavioral and social outcomes." (McCrae & Costa 1999) At the heart of this theory is neuroticism or emotional stability which combines all of the five traits. Neuroticism is desirable in individuals and has been observed to be characteristics in the American social culture. Individuals need to be emotionally associated with the external environment and their characters are the result of the interaction between the environment and the inner self. For example an individual who is high on self-monitoring, then s/he is…