Big Five Personality

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Personality is hard to measure, but asking yourself questions directly about how lazy, introverted, or intelligent you are, can help describe you. I conducted a self-interview survey called the Big Five Personality. The survey contained about sixty questions asking me directly questions about myself. Overall, I scored high in all the categories, except extraversion I found that I had negative and positive results. I also found some similarities with the other survey results. In the following paragraphs, I will go over the S data, the method of completing the questionnaire, analysis of the report, and my own personal reaction of the results. The following survey used in this study was a self-interview. The self-interview survey conducted …show more content…
For example having the participant take the survey a month later and having the same results. Validity in this report is high because all questions ask the participant about their personality. An example is question one; I am someone who is outgoing, sociable. The person would rate how strongly they agree or disagree with the phrase or sentence. The report is measuring what it is supposed to be measuring which is personality. Generalizability is good because this survey can be use by others and generalizable with other surveys. I found that I scored high on open-mindedness, conscientious, agreeableness, negative-emotionally and low on extraversion. I had positive results from being open to new experiences and negative results from being introverted to being overly worrisome. I found similarities with the first survey results and the second survey from the participants. The same results have been cross referencing with each other confirming some accuracy of the …show more content…
I notice that I scored pretty high on the following categories open-mindedness, conscientious, agreeableness, and negative-emotionally. I have to agree on the results about the positive outcomes I am a reliable, creative, and good-natured person. I especially have to agree on scoring high on negative-emotionally being high as I tend to be an anxious and worrisome person. Currently, I’m worried about this paper. A certain result did surprise me or to be more specific the percentile being so low at 13. They explain the reason that its low can account for it only being compared to only people that have done the survey. The other reason is I believe that maybe people who are introverted may not likely do this survey. I am introverted, but I’m also friendly, talkative, and more open after getting to know