Do you focus on your key characteristics, or how your experiences have shaped your responses?.
For this task, develop your own theory of personality.
Specifically, your theory must address the following:
• Provide a name for your theory that indicates its general focus (e.g. Big Five Factor)
Be sure to carefully review this week’s resources. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.
Reference
Beers, S. E. (2014). Personality theory. Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press.
Please be aware, the professor did gave me a list of all the 10 references articles to use. I want to know will you have a list of references? or you want me to find the references? I included 5 to 6 as suggested.
A growing body of research has pointed to the five-factor model as a recurrent and more or less comprehensive taxonomy of personality traits. The five-factor model, consists of Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), Openness to Experience (O), Agreeableness (A), and Conscientiousness (C). These traits are bipolar dimensions, it is possible that the adjectives in bipolar scales are not true psychological opposites (McCrae & Costa, 1987).
Be sure to carefully review this week’s resources. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.
Reference
McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T., Jr. ( 1987). Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 81– 90.
Do you focus on your key characteristics, or how your experiences have shaped your responses?