Diener & Lucas () Flashcards
Personality traits
Reflect people’s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. They imply consistency and stability. Rests on the idea that people differ from one another in terms of where they stand on a set of basic trait dimensions that persist over time and across situations. They reflect basic dimensions on which people differ
Five-Factor Model
The most widely used system of traits. OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Each can be divided into facets
Personality
The characteristic ways that people differ from one another
Criteria that characterise personality traits
- Consistency
- Stability
- Individual differences
Lexical hypothesis
States that all important personality characteristics should be reflected in the language that we use to describe other people. Used statistical techniques to determine whether a small number of dimensions underlies the thousands of words we use to describe people
Openness
The tendency to appreciate new art, ideas, values, feelings, and behaviours
Conscientiousness
The tendency to be careful, on-time for appointments, to follow rules, and to be hardworking
Extraversion
The tendency to be talkative, sociable, and to enjoy others; the tendency to have a dominant style
Agreeableness
The tendency to agree and go along with others rather than to assert one’s own opinions and choices
Neuroticism
The tendency to frequently experience negative emotions such as anger, worry, and sadness, as well as being interpersonally sensitive
Facets
More specific, lower-level units of personality. Useful because they provide more specific descriptions. Allow better predictions
HEXACO model
A revision of the Big Five. It has slightly different versions of some traits. It adds Honesty-Humility
Honesty-Humility
Reflects individuals who are sincere, fair, and modest
