Personality Test Analysis

a. According self tests using the Five Factor Model, my personality has low extraversion and emotional stability, a high degree of openness, and moderate levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness. Low extraversion is demonstrated in both professional and social envionments. While working a corporate job as a financial analyst, taking the time and initiative to interact with coworkers beyond the scope of the job was limited to a brief conversation once a day with the same two people. In large social gatherings, interactions are limited to familiar people with whom I have pre-existing friendships. If I attend a concert by myself, I will bring a book to read in between musical acts to prevent people from speaking to me. Low emotional stability is exhibited through a tendency to be easily and overly stressed about work, school, and relationships. For example, financial analysts collect data from their clients for reports. It was common for data to be received later than expected and for deadlines to be moved in result. These obstacles were expected, yet there was still copious amounts of stress and anxiety each time data was late and deadlines were pushed. Then, the stress from work would easily carry over to other facets of life, and vice versa- unrelated job stresses would affect job performance and. A high degree of creative and intellectual openness to experience is shown through many hobbies, interests, and endeavors. Most solitary time is spent designing, making patterns, and creating clothes, cycling gear, and writing music on the guitar and piano. Magazine and journals for art, architecture, science, and business are constantly being read for knowledge, inspiration, and ideas for ongoing projects. While sewing and music ha...

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...onnaire which uses single adjectives or the NEO questionnaires developed by Paul Costa and Jeff McCrae. If scores are similar between the International Personality Item Pool and another certified questionnaires, than this questionnaire has high content validity.

f. The questionnaire is useful in measuring personality traits, but should not be the ultimate definer. There were some test-retest and inter-rater discrepancies that were significant enough to question the validity of the questionnaire on some traits, such as emotional stability.The most common feedback was that the rater did not know how to rate some of the statements because it depended on the situation, and thus the rater gave more moderate scores. However, the generality of the questions cannot be avoided since personality is how these traits are exhibited over time and situations.