Five-Factor Model of Personality

By C. Soto, Anna Kronauer, Josephine K. Liang. 2013

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The five-factor model of personality (FFM) is a set of five personality trait dimensions, often referred to as the Big Five: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Originally derived from research examining the structure of personality-descriptive language and personality inventories, the FFM is now the most widely used model of personality structure. Research using the FFM has found that each Big Five dimension develops across the lifespan in response to biological and environmental influences. Measures of the Big Five have shown considerable reliability and interrater agreement, and can be used to predict a variety of important social, occupational, psychological, and health outcomes. Keywords: lifespan and development psychology; measurement in psychology; personality; personality traits

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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A Survey of Personality Computing (2014, neutral): “These traits, known as Big Five (BF) or Five-Factor Model (FFM), are today the “the dominant paradigm in personality research, and one of the most influential models in all of psychology” [15].”
Bridging the Gap between Social Animal and Unsocial Machine: A Survey of Social Signal Processing (2012, positive): “made in terms of the Big Five, the most important and common personality model [111].”
Successful Explanations Start with Accurate Descriptions: Questionnaire Items as Personality Markers for More Accurate Predictions (2018, positive): “…Thorsteinsson, Rooke, & Schutte, 2007; Malouff, Thorsteinsson, & Schutte, 2006), relationship satisfaction (Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Schutte, Bhullar, & Rooke, 2010), volunteering (Carlo, Okun, Knight, & de Guzman, 2005), exercising (Rhodes & Smith, 2006), or voting choices (Vecchione et al., 2011).”
Personality traits, loneliness, and attitudes toward aloneness in adolescence (2013, background): “These characteristic adaptations were considered to emerge in accordance with the developmental challenges of adolescence and were thought to be influenced by personality traits (McAdams & Pals, 2006; McCrae & Costa, 1996, 1999).”
Personality and Friendship Satisfaction in Daily Life: Do Everyday Social Interactions Account for Individual Differences in Friendship Satisfaction? (2015, background): “For example, research has found that all of the Big Five personality traits predict romantic relationship satisfaction to some extent (Heller et al., 2004; Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Schutte, Bhullar, & Rooke, 2010; Schaffhuser, Allemand, & Martin, 2014).”
Explaining the Link between Personality and Relationship Satisfaction: Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Behaviour in Conflict Discussions (2015, positive): “Another line of research has shown that personality traits play an important role in relationship quality (e.g. Heller, Watson & Ilies, 2004; Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Schutte, Bhullar & Rooke, 2010).”