What Do We Assess When We Assess a Big 5 Trait? A Content Analysis of the Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Processes Represented in Big 5 Personality Inventories

Key Takeaways:

Big 5:

• The Big 5 traits are: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness
• Celebrated for their ability to simplify an otherwise overwhelming number of traits, their cross-cultural applicability and their ability to predict health-relevant and other outcomes