PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Big Five Personality Traits, Nomothetic, Factor Analysis
16 Jun 2018
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PSYC 100 – Lecture 29
Personality
Contemporary Approaches to Personality
• What is personality?
o A characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to
each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations
o Idiographic approach –
unique personality characteristics
o Nomothetic approach – examine personality in large groups of people,
with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure
• The Trait Perspective
o A y ,
feeling, and behaving; w
o Factor analysis – a statistical technique used to group items that people
respond to similarly
▪ E. y, w,
cluster, referred to as a factor
o The Five Factor Model – created by McCrae and Costa (1987)
▪ A trait-based theory of personality based on the finding that
personality can be described using five major dimensions
▪ The factors are: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion,
Agreeableness, Neuroticism
▪ Individuals score either highly or lowly on each of these personality
factors
o Beyond the Big 5: the Personality of Evil?
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