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a very good job of predicting how people behave in a variety of real-life situations.

The following are the Big Five factors:

● Extraversion. The extraversion dimension captures our comfort level with

relationships. Extraverts tend to be gregarious, assertive and sociable. Introverts tend
to be reserved, timid, and quiet.

● Agreeableness. The agreeableness dimension refers to an individual’s propensity to

defer to others. Highly agreeable people are cooperative, warm and trusting. People
who score low on agreeableness are cold, disagreeable and antagonistic.

● Conscientiousness. The conscientiousness dimension is a measure of reliability. A

highly conscientious person is responsible, organized, dependable and persistent.

Those who score low on this dimension are easily distracted, disorganized and

unreliable.
● Emotional stability. The emotional stability dimension—often labeled by its

converse, neuroticism—taps a person’s ability to withstand stress. People with

positive emotional stability tend to be calm, self-confident, and secure. Those with
high negative scores tend to be nervous, anxious, depressed and insecure.

● Openness to experience. The openness to experience dimension addresses range

of interests and fascination with novelty. Extremely open people are creative, curious,

and artistically sensitive. Those at the other end of the category are conventional and

find comfort in the familiar.

3.4 Definition of Values

Values represent basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence

is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state
of existence. They contain a judgmental element in that they carry an individual’s ideas as

to what is right, good or desirable. Values have both content and intensity attributes.

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