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Extraversion

Meaning in psychology, with examples

/ˌekstrəˈvɜːʃən/nounCommon term

In psychology, extraversion means: A personality trait describing how outgoing, talkative, energetic and sociable a person is, and how much they seek stimulation and the company of others.

In Turkish: dışadönüklük, dışa dönüklük

How it is used

One of the Big Five traits, described as a dimension by Jung and later by Eysenck. People score high or low on extraversion, and the opposite end is introversion. A person high in it is an extravert.

Example sentences

  1. People high in extraversion reported more positive emotions in everyday life.

  2. Extraversion predicted how often participants joined social activities.

Common collocations

  • high in extraversion
  • extraversion and introversion
  • extraversion scale
  • Big FiveA widely used model that describes personality with five broad traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
  • traitA relatively stable tendency to think, feel or behave in a certain way across many situations, such as being outgoing, anxious or organised.
  • personalityThe fairly stable pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that makes a person different from others and consistent across situations and over time.
  • temperamentA child's inborn, biologically based style of reacting to the world, such as activity level, mood and how easily they adapt, which forms a basis for later personality.

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