Everyone else is doing it

[den_mother]

Or at least two of my friends in a couple day span have done this, so thought I'd jump on the bandwagon as I break my long LJ absence.

My Personality

Neuroticism

28
Extraversion

52
Openness To Experience

16
Agreeableness

44
Conscientiousness

31
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Comments

analysis

[curlygirlymm]

Finally a personality test that has some grounding in psychological research!!! I'm so excited, Kristen! This particular analysis (although I didn't look at the test itself), is called the Five-Factor Approach. Basically, about a century ago, a line of psychologists went through the dictionary and decided that any meaningful personality characteristic would have a word for it. Then, through the years and statistical analyses, various researchers have argued that all the original 2,000-ish personality characteristics could really be boiled down to 5 basic traits- Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism (or the acronym OCEAN for short). The subcomponents on each test are actually subject to debate- the originators of the test supposedly just picked some subscales that sounded right rather than actually testing these subcomponents. There are some people who are ardent adherents of this approach to personality, and a lot of other people who argue that it's not really all inclusive. Plus, there are criticisms of the statistical techniques used. However, besides that, grad students notoriously score very high on conscientiousness and Neuroticism- with neuroticism being associated with depression (big surprise there). Openness to experience tends to be correlated with higher education, as well. Congratulations on taking a bona fide personality test. :-D You've made my day.