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Big Five

Meaning in psychology, with examples

nounCommon term

In psychology, Big Five means: A widely used model that describes personality with five broad traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

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How it is used

Also called the five-factor model (FFM) and remembered with the acronym OCEAN. Researchers measure it with inventories such as the NEO-PI-R or the Big Five Inventory and report a score for each dimension.

Example sentences

  1. We measured the Big Five traits with a short 44-item inventory.

  2. Neuroticism is the Big Five trait most closely linked to anxiety and depression.

Common collocations

  • Big Five traits
  • Big Five Inventory
  • five-factor model
  • OCEAN model
  • traitA relatively stable tendency to think, feel or behave in a certain way across many situations, such as being outgoing, anxious or organised.
  • extraversionA personality trait describing how outgoing, talkative, energetic and sociable a person is, and how much they seek stimulation and the company of others.
  • personalityThe fairly stable pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that makes a person different from others and consistent across situations and over time.
  • psychometricRelating to the measurement of psychological qualities such as intelligence, personality and symptoms, and to the methods used to check how good those measures are.

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