BIG FIVE TRAITS WHY IS IT RELEVANT? WHAT DOES IT AFFECT?
Emotional stability
  • Less negative thinking and fewer negative emotions

  • Less hypervigilant

  • Higher job and life satisfaction

  • Lower stress levels

Extraversion
  • Better interpersonal skills

  • Greater social dominance

  • More emotionally expressive

  • Higher performance

  • Enhanced leadership

  • Higher job and life satisfaction

Openness
  • Increased learning

  • More creative

  • More flexible and autonomous

  • Training performance

  • Enhanced leadership

  • More adaptable to change

Agreeableness
  • Better liked

  • More compliant and conforming

  • Higher performance

  • Lower levels of deviant behavior

Conscientiousness
  • Greater effort and persistence

  • More drive and discipline

  • Better organized and planning

  • Higher performance

  • Enhanced ...

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