The ________ is a personality assessment model that describes five basic dimensions encompassing most of the significant variation in human personality, namely extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.
This model provides a structure for personality and it states that it can be divided into 5 independent states:
Extraversion: how an individual tends to act and relate during interpersonal relations, such as communicating with other individuals.
Agreeableness: a friendly and optimistic individual who tends to help others gets along well with everyone.
Conscientiousness: relating to the individual's discipline.
Emotional Stability: also known as neuroticism, it measures one's emotional adjustment against emotional instability, in order to understand the individual and know how he/she could react.
Openness to experience: it centers on measuring one's tolerance and search of new experiences, as well as trying to get out of a basic routine to try new things.