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What is Big Five Personality Model ?

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Question added by Alee Iftikhar , Administration & Marketing Officer , Sunrise Marketing (Pvt) Ltd
Date Posted: 2015/11/05
Nasir Al Hodani
by Nasir Al Hodani , رئيس قسم مستودعات المنتج التام , دواجن الوطنيه

he big five personality traits are the best accepted and most commonly used model of personality in academic psychology. The big five come from the statistical study of responses to personality items. Using a technique called factor analysis researchers can look at the responses of people to hundreds of personality items and ask the question "what is the best was to summarize an individual?". This has been done with many samples from all over the world and the general result is that, while there seem to be unlimited personality variables, five stand out from the pack in terms of explaining a lot of a persons answers to questions about their personality: extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience. 

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