Describe the Big Five Model. List and discuss the five ...

[melina_rosy]

Describe the Big Five Model. List and discuss the five personality traits that are based on the Big Five Model of personality.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

A person who rates as being high in Machiavellianism would use any means to accomplish a task.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

[ally]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: In recent years, research has shown that the five basic personality dimensions of the Big Five Model underlie all others and encompass most of the significant variation in human personality. The Big Five provide more than just a personality framework. Research has shown that important relationships exist between these personality dimensions and job performance.
a. Extraversion  the degree to which someone is sociable, talkative, and assertive.
b. Agreeableness  the degree to which someone is good-natured, cooperative, and trusting.
c. Conscientiousness  the degree to which someone is responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented.
d. Emotional stability  the degree to which someone is calm, enthusiastic, and secure (positive) or tense, nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative).
e. Openness to experience  the degree to which someone is imaginative, artistically sensitive, and intellectual.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: TRUE

[melina_rosy]

Excellent

[kjohnson]

Gracias!