Personality

Six Main Views

  1. biological
  2. psychological
  3. personality
  4. sociolgoical
  5. circumstantial
  6. self-communicating, dynamic, self-regulating, experimental organisms
  • first five were influential but not determinative

Four Main (Data-Driven) Types [2]

  • attributedTo @Martin-Gerlach (Private) et al

  • Average: The most common type are people who are high in neuroticism and extraversion while lower in openness.

  • Reserved: People in this type are not open or neurotic but they are emotionally stable. They tend to be introverted, agreeable and conscientious.

  • Role-models: These people are natural leaders with low levels of neuroticism and high levels of agreeableness, extraversion, openness and conscientiousness. They listen to new ideas and are reliable.

  • Self-centered: While these people score high in extraversion they rank below average openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness.

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Resources


Children
  1. OCEAN Model