Personality Assesment

Personality Assessments

Personality types are some of the greatest things to learn about people. Typically, when I meet a new person I will ask them what there Myers-Briggs personality type is. I am an INFP, which I think is very fitting based on their summary of what this type is like, and how I would interact with other types. I decided to try another personality test, because I've taken the Myers-Briggs so many times before and got the same results, so I wanted to know how I ranked on other tests. I took the Big Five test, and let me just say some of the results didn’t seem right to me. The Big Five measures five broad types of your personality. The types can be remembered using the acronym OCEAN, Openness to Experience, Consciousness, Extraversion, Agreeability, and Neuroticism. Each of these five categories have 6 different facets to help break down and understand your personality better.

My Personality Type

The one that confused me the most was my score on Extraversion, I got a 75/100 which is considered high, and I've always considered my-self to be more of an ambivert or an introvert at that. I love people and being around them, but I need so much me time to regain energy from those times. The facets that drove up my extravertness were that I’m highly excitement seeking, at a 99/100, and I'm assertive and cheerful. I scored average on friendliness, gregariousness, and activity level, which is about right. The one that wasn’t as surprising was the Conscientiousness category. I know I am very spur of the moment and free willed so I live for the moment. I scored a whole 5/100 on this one. My highest score on the facets was Achievement-Striving which was at 47/100 which is an average score for that. The other facets are self-efficacy, orderliness, self-discipline and cautiousness, which I scored low on all of them, and on cautiousness I managed to receive a 0/100. The other three categories, agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness to experience, were all things I hadn’t thought about in depth in my personality but the scores made sense. On Agreeableness I scored average, which means I care about how others feel, but I still have a sense of who I am and what I need as well. I scored high on altruism, cooperation, modesty and sympathy, which I think do define me very well. I care a lot about other people, too much sometimes and that goes a lot into altruism and sympathy which makes a lot of sense. My two lower categories were trust and morality, which isn’t news to me. I have a hard time trusting people, and that’s always been a thing about me. I want to trust, but I don’t know how. Morality was my lowest score at 17/100, a lot of this comes from the fact that I do see the right and wrong sides of things, but I chose to make the decision I want to make even if I know the outcome may not be the best decision. Openness to experience, I scored average on this category as well. It is based on whether you are open to new experiences or want to stick with tradition. I'm in the middle on that even with the way I think, I think something’s need to stay the way they are because that’s just how it needs to be, but change is really good sometimes, and sometimes things need to change for the betterment of someone or something else. Neuroticism, the emotions category, I scored high, which means I am emotionally unstable. My score was 86/100. The facets for this category are anxiety 77, anger 87, depression 70, self-consciousness 80, immoderation 73 and vulnerability 90. The only one that surprised me out of these 6 facets is the anger, I didn’t realize my score would be that high, but upon further exploration of myself it makes a lot of sense.