Personality characteristics and their measurement

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.

Questions Answered

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. A nurse would work on agreeableness (friendly/compassionate) and extraverted. 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 look for logical explanations or solutions to just about anything and everything, that make decisions with one's head and based on fairness, that believe that telling the truth is more than being tactful, that sometimes miss the "people" part of the situation and that are too task-oriented or uncaring. Feeling people are those that have people and communication as an orientation, that are more concerned about harmony and are nervous when it is missing, that look for what is important to others, that make decisions based on compassion, that are more tactful than blunt and are perhaps too idealistic or "mushy." Finally, judging people are those that make a list to do and plan ahead to avoid a deadline. Perceiving people are those that are more casual and "in the moment." The author of this report assessed this and came to the conclusion that ISTJ applies the most to the author (MBTI, 2014).