Neeuroticism Extraversion Openness Five Factors Inventory

The Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) is a widely used personality inventory. It has sixty questions using a Likert scale that measures five personality traits: OCEAN – openness (to experience,), conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. My overall results from the NEO-FFI were low in neuroticism, low in extraversion, high in openness, average in agreeableness, and high in conscientiousness. Likewise, my results were fairly consistent with what I had originally perceived my scores to be. Overall, I do agree with my results since there were many consistencies I recognized. Yet, at the same time, my behavior could fall into both categories of high and low compared to the norms. Additionally,

My score on extraversion was 22, low again compared to the norm. For this trait, I agreed with my results at first, but after some thinking I realized although I am introverted, I do behave extravertly sometimes. In general, I prefer working alone, staying indoors, and I don’t like being around a lot of people. For example, when given a group project, I’d prefer working on my own. Yet most of the time, I end up being the group leader because I get along well with people and am usually optimistic. Basically, I prefer settings with less people, but I can mingle well with strangers at parties or functions. Most of my friends and myself included, would say I am extraverted because I make friends easily and am usually very happy and cheerful. But that is only partially true because I do behave differently depending on the situation and my role as a friend, student, employee, etc. Therefore, I don’t agree with my results overall. Considering I show both introversion and extroversion, I think my results should have been within average compared to the

It only took about five minutes to complete, which isn’t long. While taking the survey, I had to double-read the question at times because I didn’t know the answer. Some habits are easy to see and some I had to think about it because I never fully took into account every detail of my behavior. Also, it was interesting to learn that my behavior has changed. I think it is easier for others to see changes than yourself, unless there is a significant event in your life. Hence, I didn’t realize my neuroticism has decreased significantly over time. Also, I found this survey was well-organized. When I went back to look at the questions, I found that each trait had twelve questions asked in five sets. Mixing the traits made the survey easier to go through for me in