PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: C. Robert Cloninger, Status Attainment, Extraversion And Introversion
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Big five inventory: cheaper version of neo. Ten item personality instrument under bfi in 10 minutes. Ipip-neo (goldberg, johnson, eber, hogan, ashton, cloninger, & gough, 2006) Traits are continuous and represent continuous dimensions in which people don"t have a trait or not. Traits are comparative, given the scores that they receive. Typically but not necessarily bi-polar meaning there is a pole at the end of the continuum ex: introverted at one end to cruel at the other end extroverted. Depression measure is uni polar b/c scores start at zero and move up. Name the trait with only one end (but still talking about a dimension as a whole) * five factors are mostly statistically independent from one another. Where you stand on any one trait tells you next to nothing compared to the other 4 traits. Facets: anxiety, angry hostility, depression, self-consciousness, impulsive, vulnerability. Correlates: somatic complaints and negative affect all the unpleasant emotions and ability to predict negative affect.
