The Big Five Personality Traits: A Complete Guide

The Five-Factor Model of Personality, more generally referred to as the “Big” Five (or OCEAN), is comprised of five superordinate personality dimensions: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. These dimensions were identified by decades of psychological research on traits. Early trait theorists, such as Gordon Allport and Raymond Cattell, identified thousands of adjectives to describe […]