What is Your Most Defining Personality Trait?
What is Your Most Defining Personality Trait?
Looking for a better way to understand yourself and connect with those around you? The Big Five personality theory provides a framework for the major personality traits and how people tend to behave. Applying this theory helps to better know yourself and get along with others.
Best of all, the theory has an easy-to-remember acronym, OCEAN. Each letter stands for a basic personality trait:
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Each person falls somewhere on the spectrum of each of the five OCEAN personality traits. Learning whether a person ranks high or low for each characteristic reveals the reasons behind their common actions and how they tend to behave.
You can take this quiz to find out your most dominant personality trait according to the Big Five theory to learn more about yourself. For fun, have a friend take the quiz to get to know their most dominant trait. Maybe you can even correctly guess the results!
How do you react under pressure?
On your way out, you notice a crowd enjoying a dance performance in the street. What do you do?
Which of these pictures stresses you out the most?
Which sounds like the most like you on a Friday night?
Which of these images appeal to you the most?
A stranger comes up to you to ask for directions. How do you react?
What do you strive for in life?
Which of these pictures inspires you the most?
Openness to Experience
Openness to Experience
Your most defining characteristics: Imaginative, creative, and open-minded
You love trying new things. Because of your big imagination, you tend to think outside of the box. Full of originality, you have an unconventional outlook, which gives you a knack for creative expression and the arts. You like unfamiliar experiences and enjoy going outside of your comfort zone.
Conscientiousness
Conscientiousness
Your most defining characteristics: goal-oriented, disciplined, and organized
You have a strong awareness of the impact your behavior has on other people. That leads you tackle tasks head on, making you extremely reliable. Because you prepare yourself, you tend to adjust easily to life’s challenges and can overcome obstacles that come your way. Nothing goes past you, as you are very organized and detail-oriented.
Extroversion
Extroversion
Your most defining characteristics: Outgoing, talkative, and social
You love spending time with people and really know how to work a room. Your draw energy from socializing and thrive in a large group. You have no problem being the center the attention even in a crowd. You love meeting new people and enjoy having a wide social network of friends and acquaintances.
Agreeableness
Agreeableness
Your most defining characteristics: Cooperative, understanding, and altruistic
You get along with everyone! You have a warm personality that makes you likeable to others. You have a natural ability to resolve conflict, which makes you a great mediator. You are tolerant and patient with other people. Your friends appreciate you because you are thoughtful and understanding.
Neuroticism
Neuroticism
Your most defining characteristics: Kind-hearted and anxious
You strive for perfection and seek control over a situation. When things don’t go as planned, you can easily feel overwhelmed and anxious. Although you have found ways to manage stress, you worry and tend to overthink situations. Still, you have such a kind heart, and only want the best for you and your loved ones.
What is Your Most Defining Personality Trait?