Big Five Personality

Big Five Personality is the psychological approach to classifying personality with the personality trait of factor analysis. Vanguard character is Allport and Cattell.

Big Five Personality is an approach used in psychology to see through the human personality trait that is arranged in five domains of personality that has been established using factor analysis. Five personality traits are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuoriticism, openness to experiences.

Trait-trait in the domains of the Big Five Personality Costa & McCrae (1997) are as follows.

Extraversion (E)
The first factor is extraversion, or it could be called a dominant-submissive factors (dominance-submissiveness). This factor is an important dimension of personality, extraversion which can predict a lot of social behavior. According to research, a person who has a high extraversion factor, will remember all social interaction, interacting with more people than someone with low levels of extraversion. In the interaction, they also will be more in control and intimacy. Peergroup they are also regarded as the people are friendly, fun-loving, affectionate, and talkative.

Extraversion is characterized by positive affect as having a high enthusiasm, happy to hang out, have a positive emotional, energetic, interested in many things, ambitious, workaholic too friendly towards others. Extraversion has a high level of motivation in the mix, a relationship with one another and their environment are also dominant in Extraversion may predict the development of social relationships. Someone who has a high level of extraversion can make friends faster than someone who has low levels of extraversion. Extraversion easily motivated by change, variety in life, challenges, and easily bored. Whereas those with low levels tend to be calm ekstraversion and withdrew from the environment.

Agreeableness (A)
Agreebleness adaptibility can also be called social or likability that indicates a person is friendly, has a personality that always give in, to avoid conflict and have a tendency to follow others. Based on the survey value, someone who has a high agreeableness scores is described as someone who has a value like help, Forgiving, and compassionate.

However, also found a bit of conflict in interpersonal relationships of people who have high levels of agreeableness, which when dealing with conflict, self esteem they will tend to decline. In addition, the avoidance of direct business in the state power in an attempt to break the conflict with others is one of the characteristics of someone who has a high level of aggreeableness. Men who have high levels of agreeableness with low power usage, it would be to show strength when compared with women.

Whereas those with low levels of agreeableness tend to be more aggressive and less cooperative.

Students who have high levels of agreeableness have a higher level of interaction with family and friends often have a conflict with the opposite sex.

Neuroticism (N)
Neuroticism describes someone who has problems with negative emotions such as anxiety and insecurity. They are emotionally unstable, as well as other friends, they also convert the attention into something opposite. Someone who has low levels of neuroticism tend to be more happy and satisfied with life compared to someone who has high levels of neuroticism. In addition to having difficulty in relationships and are committed, they also have low levels of self esteem. Individuals who have a value or score high on neuroticism is a personality that is prone to anxiety, anger, depression, and has a tendency Emotionally reactive.

Openness (O)
Openness to experience factor is the most difficult factor to be described, because these factors are inconsistent with the language used is not as other factors. Openness refers to how someone is willing to make adjustments to a new idea or situation.

Openness has a characteristic easy tolerance, the capacity to absorb information, to be very focused and able to alert on a variety of feelings, thoughts and impulsivity. Someone with a high level of openness that is described as someone who has the imagination, broadmindedness, and a world of beauty. Whereas someone who has a low level of openness that has a value of cleanliness, compliance, and security together, then the low score openess also describe the thoughts that have a narrow, conservative and do not like the change.

Openness can build personal growth. Achievement of a lot more creativity in people who have a high level of openness and low levels of agreeableness. Someone who is creative, curious, or open to the experience much easier to get a solution to a problem.

Conscientiousness (C)
Conscientiousness can be referred to as dependability, impulse control, and the will to Achieve, which illustrates the difference of order and discipline one's self. A person who has conscientious hygiene values ​​and ambitions. Such people are usually described by their friends as someone who is well-organize, timely, and ambitious.


Conscientiousness describes the control of the social environment, to think before acting, delaying gratification, following the rules and norms, planned, organized, and prioritize tasks. On the negative side of this personality trait to be extremely perfectionist, compulsive, workaholic, boring. Low levels of conscientiousness showed his sloppy, unfocused and easily distracted.

Trait dan Facets Big Five Personality Costa & McCrae

Faktor	Facet
Extraversion (E)	Warmth (E1) Tendency to easily interact and share the love
	Gregariousness (E2) The tendency for many friends and interact with the crowd
	Assertiveness (E3) Individuals who tend to be assertive
	Activity (E4) Individuals who frequently participate in various activities, have high energy and enthusiasm
	Excitement-seeking (E5) Thrill-seeking individuals who like and love to take risks
	Positive emotion (E6) Tendency to experience positive emotions like happiness, love and joy
Agreeableness (A)	Trust (A1)  An individual's level of trust towards others
	Straightforwardness (A2) Individuals who, frankly, in a truly express something
	Altruism (A3) IAnd generous individuals who have a desire to help others
	Compliance (A4) Characteristics of the reaction to interpersonal conflict
	Modesty (A5) Individuals who are simple and humble
	Tender-mindedness (A6) Sympathetic and caring for others
Neuroticism (N)	Anxiety (N1) A tendency to agitated, fearful, worried, nervous and tense
	Hostility (N2) Tendency to experience anger, frustration and hateful
	Depression (N3) The tendency of depressed individuals for normal
	Self-consciousness (N4) Individuals who show emotion embarrassed, uncomfortable among others, are too sensitive, and easy to feel inferior
	Impulsiveness (N5) Not able to control the excessive desire or urge to do something
	Vulnerability (N6) Tendency to not be able to deal with stress, dependent on others, easy to give up and panic when faced with something that comes suddenly
Openness (O)	Fantasy (O1) Individuals who have a high and active imagination
	Aesthetic (O2) Individuals who have a high appreciation of art and beauty
	Feelings (O3) Individuals who are aware of and explore their own emotions and feelings
	Action (O4) Individuals who are willing to try new things
	Ideas (O5) Open minded and willing to realize new ideas and unconventional
	Values (O6) One's readiness to reexamine social values ​​and religious politics
Conscientiousness (C)	Competence (C1) Ability, effectiveness and wisdom of doing things
	Order (C2) The ability to organize
	Dutifulness (C3) Embrace the principle of life
	Achievement-striving (C4) Aspirations of individuals in achievement
	Self-discipline (C5) Being able to regulate itself
	Deliberation (C6) Always think before acting

Description of the characteristics of individual scores high and low when measured

Characteristics of high scores	Trait scale	Characteristics of low scores
Easy to adjust to the social environment, active, talkative, the orientation of the neighbor relationship, optimistic, fun-loving, affectionate. Soft-hearted, trustworthy, helpful, forgiving, meek​​.	Ekstraversion (E) Measuring the quantity and intensity of interpersonal interaction, activity level, the need for encouragement, and capacity and with pleasure. Agreeableness (A) Measuring the quality of what is done with other people and what was done to others.	Not friendly, unpretentious, aloof, task orientation, quiet. Cynical, rude, suspicious, uncooperative, vindictive, cruel, manipulative.
Anxious, nervous, emotional, insecure, feeling of inadequacy, panic easily	Neuroticism (N) describes the emotional stability-with the scope of coverage of a strong negative feelings, including anxiety, sadness, irritability and nervous tension.	Relax, relax, feel safe, satisfied with himself, unemotional, stoic.
Out of curiosity, broad interests, creative, original, imaginative, untraditional.	Openness to Experience (O) A description of the breadth, depth and complexity of individual mental and experiences.	Conventional, simple, narrow interests, not artistic, not analytical.
Regular, hard working, reliable, disciplined, punctual, neat, careful.	Conscientiousness (C) Describe the task-directed behavior and impulse control goals and social exclusion.	Without goals, unreliable, lazy, careless, negligent, it is easy to give up, hedonistic.