The Trait Model of Personality

The Trait Model of Personality

Quialetta Harris

PSY 330: Theories of Personality

Instructor Dr. Edward Fischer

September 22, 2015

If someone was asked to characterize the personality of an immediate associate, what kind of things would you say? A couple of things that might come to mind, detailed characteristics such as outgoing, kind, and level-headed. All are traits of personality.

Traits of personality can relate to a person’s emotions, motivations, interpersonal interactions, and attitudes. Personality could be beneficial for management, because it gives them insight into different employees’ personalities that helps them to dictate how good they perform their job. Personality may also stipulate how hard that person may work, how organized they are, how they work and interact with others in the workplace, and how creative they are. Personality is unlikely to change in one’s personal life. However, this doesn’t mean an individual can’t and will adjust to change in environment.

Recently, more companies have been utilizing these self-reporting personality tests to help them to distinguish a person’s personality traits as part of their recruiting and management growth procedure, because companies are aware that experience, education, and intelligence may not be the only standards for who is qualified for that particular position. Furthermore, comprehending your own personality traits may aid in enhancing your potential to progress as an employee or management. That’s why it’s significant to comprehend the contrasting surfaces of personality and the approaches in which they can be measured.

There have been contrasting unsubstantiated point of views in the field of personality psychology over time also regarding human motivation, the individual itself, and the individual differences. The Big Five personality traits seem to fall under the individual differences. “The Big Five personality traits include extraversion, agreeableness,...