Description
Take the Big Five Personality Test to obtain a free basic report of your personality traits. You will use the results of this test in this assignment.
Complete the Career Dispositions Self-Inventory Worksheet.
Explanation & Answer
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PSY/250 v10
Career Dispositions Self-Inventory
Worksheet
Introduction
Refer to Chapter 13 in your textbook, Theories of Personality, for this assignment.
McCrae and Costa (Feist et al., 2018) theorized that personality traits can be categorized by five major
factors:
• Openness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism
Like Allport, they claim that individuals will score at a specific point along a continuum for each of the five
factors.For example, a high score in extraversion may reflect that someone is outgoing, or a low score
may reflect that a person is reserved. Most people will score somewhere in the middle, with only a few
who score at either of the extremes.
Combined, these factorscan give us insight into recognizing and accepting our own dispositional traits as
well as those of others. Such an understanding of personalitycan help us to self-reflect, predict behaviors,
anddemonstrate empathy in ways that can improve our relationships with colleagues in diverse workplace
environments.
Part I: Trait Theories
Explain how dispositional trait theories (Allport, McCrae and Costa) are different from biological trait
theories (Eysenck and Buss) in 125–175 words.
Dispositional theories focus on studying human behaviors and personality. The theories measure the
steady pattern of habits in the behaviors, emotions, and thoughts of individuals. The focus of this theory is
a trait, which promotes the understanding of human personality (Feist et al., 2018).The traits become
stable over time, depending ...