Big five personality traits: Who are you?

<p>An individual’s personality traits define how they perceive the world around them. It is a set of characteristics and features that cause them to think, feel, and behave in a particular way.</p> <p>Personality traits are characteristic of enduring behavioural and emotional patterns rather than isolated occurrences.</p> <p>Although all aspects of your personality stem from both nature and nurture, many models of personality types attempt to explain why we are the way we are.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>People have probably been fascinated by personality traits since the first <i>Homo sapiens </i>roamed the earth. The first profound personality test was created in 1915, during the First World War. </p> <p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-personality-test-was-developed-during-world-war-i-180973192/" target="_blank">Robert Woodworth’s “Psychoneurotic Inventory”</a> was the forerunner of personality tests such as the Myers-Briggs test. </p> <p>Such personality qualities seem more consistent over time, being heavily loaded genetically. Five of the most studied factors that genetically influence someone’s personality: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism.  </p> <p>Whereas, personality traits are the most common way we tend to describe human behaviour in people. According to Goldberg's five factors of personality, <b>OCEAN</b> model. We all have a combination of the five traits.</p> <p>(<b>O</b>penness, <b>C</b>onscientiousness,  <b>E</b>xtraversion,  <b>A</b>greeableness, <b>N</b>euroticism) or you could use the mnemonic <b>CANOE </b>instead, depending on your nautical preference.</p> <p>It is important to note that each of the five primary personality traits suggested could represent a range between two polar extremes with the Jungian dichotomy. </p> <p>For instance, extraversion represents a continuum between extreme extraversion and extreme introversion. In the real world, most people lie somewhere in between.  </p> <p>The five factors are not nece