The “Big Five” Personality Traits

The Big Five are (1) openness to experience, (2) conscientiousness, (3) extraversion, (3) agreeableness (5) emotional stability. These 5 also know as the acronym OCEAN are described as important factors of personality. The results were that social dominance increased from adolescence through middle adulthood which social vitality increased in adolescences and then decreased in early and late adulthood. Agreeableness and conscientiousness increase in early and middle adulthood. Neuroticism decreased in early adulthood and openness-to-experiences increased in adolescence and early adulthood and then decreased in late adulthood.