A Case Study On Big Five Personality Theory

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A CASE STUDY ON BIG FIVE PERSONALITY THEORY
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A CASE STUDY ON BIG FIVE PERSONALITY THEORY1
The big five personality theory discusses the five factors that determine the behaviour of
an individual. The five factors are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion
agreeability and neuroticism. According to the scores derived from TIPI, the results show that
Mr. Rogers was an extraverted, open to new experiences, agreeable, emotionally stable and a
conscientious individual. The test showed that Mr. Rogers had scored high in the areas
concerning the areas of extraversion, and dependability. He was a self-disciplined individual. He
scored 6 on extraversion open to new experiences and sympathetic areas [1] He scored a 7 in
being emotionally stable. He scored low in the areas regarding quarrelsome nature, anxious, and
uncreative or conventional. As Mr. Rogers was a television celebrity, he can be said to be
extraverted. He was the host, the producer and the chief puppeteer of his television show [1]. He
was a thoughtful person who cared about the children. This is a sign that he was a
conscientiousness individual who believed in helping others. He was agreeable as his behaviour
towards the children showed that he was always ready to help them. He was ready to talk about
topics such as poverty, death and war and never shied away from them [2]. The different roles
that he played during his whole lifetime show that he was open to experience and was always
ready to take on challenges that came in his life. He was emotionally stable who believed in
helping others.
Therefore based on the big five model of personality, the psychologist would place him
the areas of extraversion, openness to experience, emotionally stable, conscientious and
agreeable. The traits that he possessed were a result of the combination of nature and nurture.
This means that he had inherited certain traits from his parents as the case study reveals that
these traits were also evident in his sister who wrote the obituary. The environment that he grew
up in was also responsible for his developing of traits [3]. The person was a songwriter and was