Big Five Personality Traits (OCEAN)

Treebeard posted this in another thread, but I didn’t want to hijack that thread:

So, I found this site:

http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/

And I scored this:

I’m a O93-C94-E59-A94-N1 Big Five!!

Lookie there! I’m almost a ‘Divergent!’ :stuck_out_tongue:
(Except that I’m not as extroverted as apparently some people would like)

Anywho, that link above asks lots of personal questions, but I was able to get by with leaving most of the questions blank and answering just my gender and age, I think.

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Have done several of these and the most variable score I get is with the openness to experience. If being liberal is seen as more relevant in scoring high on this factor then I tend to score higher ie I’m not a conservative thinker . If it’s more based on trying new things as this one is then I tend to score lower. With that category much depends on what the tester is looking for and is the most open to interpretation.

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Another test with slightly different questions. http://www.personalitytest.org.uk/

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hurf hurf hurf hurf

I’m a O24-C35-E9-A8-N71 Big Five!!

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I’m a O90-C10-E22-A63-N60 Big Five!!

I’m going to go have a novel experience and you can’t come!

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oh what a damn score I have :D:
I’m a O12-C6-E22-A4-N71 Big Five!!

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BLEEEEP!

Well, if it weren’t for the antipsychotics (1 mg of Haldol daily), I think that I would have scored as much more ‘neurotic.’ No humans are perfect. :frowning:

yeah, I should really start to go out more often. to see people, toopen myself to others… I am depressed, nothing happened in my life since 13 years…I just had this bachelor degree in sociology and than I stopped doing anything…
plus my ex pdoc was saying that ill always be victim of negatives symptoms of the illness, I hate her for that :/… she didn’t belived in me I guess

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I’m a O24-C64-E3-A74-N18 Big Five!!

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I’m a O59-C25-E22-A90-N49 Big Five!!

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I’m a O80-C64-E74-A87-N27 Big Five!!
I tend to score higher on openness than agreeableness though. This was a short test but the results look about right for me.

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I look like you apathy :slight_smile:

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Hmmmm. Looks like @anon9798425 is the only true ‘Divergent,’ among us so far, because only he or she scored high enough on the ‘Extraversion’ dimension and within a positive range on the other 4 dimensions.

No wonder he or she likes this test. :stuck_out_tongue:

Please, @anon9798425, just don’t break into singing that old song:

Just kidding! :smile: Thanks for bringing the test to our attention, @anon9798425

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This is me on meds. What does it mean? Without meds I would be much more nervous and anxious.

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personality wise or physically?

So, here’s a question that I find fun to think about:

I’ve found some theories online about the 5 factions of divergent being based on the 5 big personality characteristics.

So, which personality characteristic do you think would go with each faction? Hmmmm?

Here is a link with a bunch of words describing aspects of each of the big 5 personality traits, on the Educational Testing Service web site:

So,

  1. Openness
  2. Concientiousness
  3. Extraversion
  4. Agreeableness
  5. Neuroticism

Let’s start with the obvious ones.

One of the words listed in the link above for Openness is ‘Intellect.’ That’s obviously the ‘Erudite’ faction. As Wikipedia says: Erudite (the intellectual)

One of the words listed above for Agreeableness is ‘Altruism.’ That’s obviously the ‘Abnegation’ faction. As Wikipedia says: Abnegation (the selfless)

Amity is clear just from its name. The definition of Amity on google is ‘a friendly relationship.’ Therefore, Amity must be Extroversion, which is all about friendly relationships.

One of the phrases listed above for Neuroticism is ‘panic easily/remain calm under pressure.’ Therefore, it seems clear to me that a low score on neuroticism corresponds with bravery, and therefore Dauntless. As Wikipedia says: Dauntless (the brave)

The last one is less clear, but by process of elimination, we are left with trait of Conscientiousness and the faction of Candor. Huh?! How do we go from ‘a tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement against measures or outside expectations,’ to ‘honesty?’

Well, it is my guess here that the writer stretched the model a little bit for good storytelling reasons. It is far more entertaining to have a bunch of characters shooting their mouths off and telling the truth than it is to watch people performing very dutifully.

After all, shouldn’t all of the factions perform their different duties conscientiously?

And, believe it or not, some people see the word ‘honest’ as not just covering verbally telling the truth, but also keeping one’s verbal promises, which means that one would have to act very dutifully and ‘conscientiously’ toward those promises or obligations.

So, I think these are how the Big 5 Personality Traits align with the ‘Divergent’ factions:

  1. High Openness: Erudite
  2. High Concientiousness: Candor
  3. High Extraversion: Amity
  4. High Agreeableness: Abnegation
  5. Low Neuroticism: Dauntless

Eh. I could be wrong. Thoughts? :smile:

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No thoughts? Okie day. I had fun typing all of that stuff, anyway. :slight_smile:

It’s interesting that all the first ones you mentioned ended up being high on their respective personality trait in order to qualify for the corresponding faction. Until you get to Low Neuroticism, it’s all High scoring traits. Maybe Low Neuroticism is really the Divergent?

Yes, that is interesting, isn’t it?

Some people may interpret it differently from me by saying that high ‘neuroticism’ in this context is actually useful for a faction like ‘Dauntless,’ because of its emphasis on things like anger.
http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/a-dip-in-the-ocean-ii-double-dipping-dauntless-can-the-neurotic-be-brave/

I, however, choose not to dishonor our nation’s veterans and warriors by calling them ‘neurotic.’ I also don’t believe that. Further, despite my lack of experience in the military, I do have evidence that lack of ‘neuroticism’ (including calmness in tense situations) is a useful characteristic for them, and nbcnews.com even has an article on the use of tranquilizers in the military:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30748260/ns/health-health_care/t/us-military-heavily-armed-medicated/#.VwOI6vkrLhk

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It basically told me I’m a reckless, unsophisticated ass hole with mental health problems.

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