The Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits aka 'The Big Five'

This video describes the five-factor model of personality traits, which is also known as “The Big Five” model of personality. In this model, personality comprises five personality traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The acronym OCEAN is helpful for remembering the personality traits. Openness to experience is characterized by insight, creativity, an appreciation of art, intellectual curiosity, and a high awareness of feelings. Conscientiousness is characterized by impulse control, planning tasks carefully, being highly organized and prudence. Extraversion is characterized by getting energy from social interaction, talkativeness, and having a large number of acquaintances. Agreeableness is characterized by being cooperative, increased level of caring, empathy, friendly, seeking to compromise. Neuroticism is characterized by mood dysregulation, anxiety, worry, depression, frustrating, nervousness, being easily upset, and low emotional stability. Genetics explain about 50% of personality traits, but the percentage is not the same for every personality traits. Personality traits tend to be stable over time.

[rhondabaileyyy]

The acronym OCEAN was helpful in remembering these 5 areas.

[charlesiragui]

I understand that Dr Grande closed with a comment on the stability of the personality traits over a lifetime but I want to suggest that it might be true that Agreeableness and Neuroticism, less genetically influenced traits, would be the factors that one would work on for self improvement. Introversion: no. Openness: no. Conscientiousness: no. But trying to get along with people, empathize with them or stand fast against them, to worry less, to control better one's anger, these are places that a person could "grow". The others are factors of life orientation: this is who I am, so I need to set myself up for success.

[little-rascal]

Only after watching Dr Grande’s 700k vid that I knew there were educational vids! I usually just click when your newest vid comes up n it has become a habit. Now I can watch them all! So much wonderful things to learn! Thank you, Dr Grande!

[moniquetammenga]

Dr. Todd Grande! I think this video is very interesting. The five factor model is very well explained. Thank you for your explanation. 🙏

[KateDever-sr]

Thank you for your breakdown and explanation of each OCEAN factor. Your presentation was quite helpful.

[stacykorinek]

I just looked this up for my Intro to Personality class. Thank you again for helping with my homework, Dr. Grande!

[tsbcmhc]

OCEAN is definitely going to help me remember the traits of the five-factor model!

[studiosingyourstyle]

All 5 points change and depend on the situation we are referring to. I wish I could believe in this testing, but to be honest I believe it’s weak at best. It labels those that need a label and to the rest of the world we daily make new labels

[marlak]

Dr. Grande, I enjoy your videos very much because you are obviously a very good clinical psychologist. I would like to mention that Bronfenbrenner believed environmental factors to be more salient in personality development, and capable of overcoming genetics in the development of personality. He believed he provided empirical evidence. Also, although Freud was a neurologist by training and wanted very much to identify biological links to his patients' mental illness, he never did. He ultimately charted a continuum of normal to abnormal personality development including character traits as these developed in relation to the outside environment. Freud found childhood trauma to be most salient in the development of mental illness. This suggests although heredity is a factor, infants being exposed to their immediate environment of unstable or abusive parents are subject to become unstable more so per their interactions with parents than due to their genes. The five factor model seems very useful but less developed than it could be if American psychologists would look a little closer at

[zureezee]

I like the acronym OCEAN it helps in remembering the personality traits. After taking the personality test I wonder how well it tests these traits when the responses are either very extreme or right in the middle hence being average. I liked the in-depth explanation you gave of what people with these traits are more likely to be like or things they engage in

[amandagerrick]

This video was helpful in understanding "The Big Five" in greater detail. I will look back at this when working on my self-assessment paper since I took the personality test.

[janicedixon]

OCEAN is a good way to remember the five factor model. Before gaining a better understanding about personality traits, I was someone who considered certain personality traits as good or bad.

[judsongaiden]

0:20 The only point of disagreement is in the way it defines "extroversion" versus "introversion." Instead of using the proper Jungian definitions of those terms, it uses the pop culture definitions. Carl Jung coined the terms "introvert" and "extrovert" (he spelled it "extravert") - and was, himself, an introvert.

2:52 So one might think. That is, until one realizes that one of the purposes of "society, " as with "the state, " is to limit the individual's capacity for Openness to Experience (hence all the repressive rules and so-called "laws" that keep our minds and souls in chains).

3:34 The downside to being too Conscientious is obsession and paranoia (speaking from experience here).

7:39 Empathy, good. Compromise, bad. As Margaret Thatcher said, "Compromise is the absence of leadership."

[briannagoitiandia]

It was helpful to learn about the pros and cons of each personality trait and that they are usually consistent over time.

[lillianm.dougherty]

Hi Dr. Grande

A counselor once told me that when you ask someone how they are and most shoot for the “I’m fine” response. She said “Fine” stands for F___ed up, insecure, neurotic, and emotional. I bet that’s true a lot of times for many people, especially in today’s world.

[kelly]

This is a very good overview and the acronym is very helpful in remembering what they are.

[lizconnor]

The acronym for the big five will be really helpful for studying! I've never heard of it before and always forget at least one personality trait. I also find it really interesting that genetics contribute more to openness to experience than the other personality traits. Very informative!

[monbonica]

This really helped me understand myself a lot, and understand other people.

[chenxishu]

Very useful, my score is O 79% C 87.5% E 24% A48% N 58% I think I know myself more deeply

[pixelated.peachyangel]

Introverts do not think deeply - that has more to do with openness.
Introverts also aren't necessarily shy or mean. Shyness is introversion with anxiety. Being mean is disagreeable.