MGT 550 Chapter 2: Personality and Values

The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others

Refers to factors determined at conception which include physical stature, facial attractiveness, gender, and temperament.

Popular characteristics that individuals show frequently in a large number of situations

Worlds most widely used personality assessment instrument in the world.

Has strong supporting evidence. States five basic dimensions underlie all others and encompass most of the significant variation in human personality.

Big 5 Dimension that captures one's comfort level with relationships. Extraverts tend to be gregarious, assertive, and sociable. Introverts tend to be reserved, timid, and quiet.

Big Five Dimension refers to an individuals propensity to deter to others. Highly agreeable people are cooperative, warm, and trusting. People who score low on agreeableness are cold, disagreeable and antagonistic.

B5D is a measure of reliability. A highly conscientious person is responsible, organized, dependable, and persistent. Those who score low on this dimension are easily distracted, disorganized, and unreliable.

B5D often labeled by its converse, neuroticism, taps a persons ability withstand stress. People with positive emotional stability tend to be calm, self-confident, and secure. Those with high negative scores tend to be nervous, anxious, depressed, and insecure.

B5D addresses one's range of interests and fascination with novelty. Extremely open people are creative, curious, and artistically sensitive. Those at the other end of the openness category are conventional and find comfort in the familiar.

Self perspective that people differ in the degree to which they like or dislike themselves and whether the see themselves as capable and effective.

Person is "aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time, and, if required to do so, against the opposing efforts of other things or other persons".

Those who actively take the initiative to improve their current circumstances or create new ones

Represent basic convictions that "a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence."

An individuals values ranked in terms of their intensity.System is identified by the relative importance we assign to values such as freedom, pleasure, self-respect, honesty, obedience, and equality.