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Description
of areas measured by the Ocean 120™ Personality
Test
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Here
are the Big Five Factors and their 30 related
facets.
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The
Big Five Factors |
The
Facets that make up each Factor |
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Openness
to Experience
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Imagination
Artistic
Interests
Emotions
& Feelings |
Adventurousness
Intellect
Liberalism |
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Conscientiousness
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Competency
Orderliness
Dutifulness |
Achievement
Striving
Self-Discipline
Cautiousness |
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Extraversion |
Friendliness
Gregariousness
Assertiveness |
Activity
Level
Excitement-Seeking
Cheerfulness |
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Agreeableness |
Trust
Sincerity
Altruism |
Co-operation
Modesty
Sympathy |
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Natural
Reactions |
Anxiety
Anger
Depression |
Self-Consciousness
Immoderation
Vulnerability |
Following is a more detailed description of the Big
Five and 30 related Facets. More
information on these factors and facets - and
the implications of your scores - will be
contained in your Ocean 120™ Report. |
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Openness
to Experience
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Describes
an individual's pro-active seeking and
appreciation of experience for its own
sake.
High scorers are imaginative and
open-minded. They like to work in a
challenging, changing environment.
Low scorers like routine and prefer to
be conventional.
Openness
is often perceived as healthier or more
mature. However, both open and closed
styles of thinking are useful in
different environments and occupations.
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| Facets
of Openness to Experience |
Imagination
To
imaginative individuals the real world
is often too plain and ordinary. High
scorers for this facet use fantasy, not
as an escape, but as a way of creating
for themselves, a more richer and
interesting inner-world. |
Artistic
Interests
High
scorers in this area love beauty, both
in art and in nature. They become easily
involved and absorbed in artistic and
natural events. |
Emotions
& Feelings
People
who score high for this facet have good
access to and awareness of their own
feelings. |
Adventurousness
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High
scorers for Adventurousness are eager to
try new activities, and experience
different things. They find familiarity
and routine boring. |
Intellect
Intellect
and artistic interests are the two most
important, central aspects of Openness
to Experience. |
Liberalism
'Psychological
liberalism' refers to a readiness to
challenge authority, convention and
traditional values. |
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Conscientiousness
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Conscientiousness
describes how organised,
motivated and thorough an
individual is in life and in
pursuing goals.
High scorers are methodical,
self-motivated and well
organised.
Low scorers are easy going,
less focused and less
inclined to make plans.
The
benefits of high
conscientiousness are
obvious. Conscientious
individuals avoid trouble
and achieve high levels of
success through purposeful
planning and persistence.
They are also positively
regarded by others as
intelligent and reliable. On
the negative side, they can
be compulsive perfectionists
and workaholics.
Furthermore, extremely
conscientious individuals
might be regarded as stuffy
and boring.
People lacking in
conscientiousness may be
criticised for their
unreliability, lack of
ambition and failure to stay
within the lines, but they
will experience many
short-lived pleasures and
they will never be called
stuffy.
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| Facets
of Conscientiousness |
Competency
Competency describes an
individual's confidence in their
ability to accomplish things. |
Orderliness
People with high scores in
this area are well-organised,
tidy and neat. |
Dutifulness
This facet of personality
reflects the strength of a
person's sense of duty and
obligation. |
Achievement-Striving
Individuals who score high in
this area strive hard to achieve
excellence. Their drive to
be recognised as successful
keeps them on track as they work
hard to achieve their goals. |
Self-Discipline
Self-discipline, called
'will-power' by many people,
refers to the ability to persist
at difficult or unpleasant tasks
until they are completed. |
Cautiousness
Cautiousness describes the
disposition to think carefully
through possibilities before
acting. |
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Extraversion
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Extraversion
describes how energetic and
enthusiastic a person is when
dealing with people. It
describes an individual's
preference for quantity and
intensity of interpersonal
relationships.
High scorers are outgoing and
actively look for the company
of people. The higher the
score the more likely this
description will apply.
Low scorers tend to be serious
and reserved preferring not to
be with a large number of
people.
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| Facets
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Friendliness
Friendly
people genuinely like other
people and openly demonstrate
positive feelings toward others. |
Gregariousness
Gregarious
people find the company of
others pleasantly stimulating
and rewarding. They enjoy the
excitement of crowds.
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Excitement-Seeking
High
scorers for this area of
personality are easily bored
without high levels of
stimulation. |
Cheerfulness
This
facet measures a person's
ability to experience a range of
positive feelings, including
happiness, enthusiasm, optimism
and joy. |
Assertiveness
High scorers for Assertiveness
like to charge and direct the
activities of others. They tend
to be leaders in groups.
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Activity
Level
Active individuals lead
fast-paced and busy lives. They
do things and move about
quickly, energetically,
vigorously and they are involved
in many activities. |
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Agreeableness
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Agreeableness
describes a person's attitudes
towards other people.
High scorers are
compassionate, frank and
co-operative.
Low scorers are generally
unconcerned about other
people. They are independent,
self-reliant and competitive.
Agreeableness
is obviously advantageous for
attaining and maintaining
popularity. Agreeable people
tend to be better liked than
disagreeable people. On the
other hand, agreeableness is
not particularly useful in
situations that require tough
or absolute objective
decisions.
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| Facets
of Agreeableness |
Trust
People
who score high in this area
fundamentally assume that most
people are fair, honest and have
good intentions. They take
people at face value and they
are willing to forgive and
forget. |
Sincerity
High scorers for this facet
see no need for pretence or
manipulation when dealing with
others and are therefore candid,
frank and genuine.
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Altruism
Altruistic
people find helping other people
genuinely rewarding.
Altruistic people find that
doing things for others is a
form of self-fulfillment rather
than self-sacrifice.
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Co-operation
Individuals
who score high for Co-operation
dislike confrontations. They are
perfectly willing to compromise
or to deny their own needs in
order to get along with others.
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Modesty
High
scorers are unassuming, rather
self-effacing and humble.
However it is important to
understand that they are not
necessarily lacking in
self-confidence or self-esteem.
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Sympathy
People who score high for
this area are tender-hearted and
compassionate.
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Natural
Reactions
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Natural
Reactions measures the
different ways people have of
reacting emotionally to
pressure and stressful
circumstances.
High scorers often have
strong, overly-sensitive
emotional natural reactions.
Low scorers are less reactive.
They tend to be relaxed and
rarely experience negative
emotions.
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Anxiety
The 'fight-or-flight' system of
the brain of anxious individuals
is too easily and too often
engaged. Therefore, people who
score high in this area often
feel like something unpleasant,
threatening or dangerous is
about to happen. |
Anger
This
facet measures the tendency to
feel angry. Whether or not
a person expresses annoyance and
hostility depends on his or her
level of Agreeableness.
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Depression
This facet measures normal
differences in the way that
people react to life's ups and
downs. We are not using
the word 'depression' in a
medical or clinical sense. |
Self-Consciousness
Self-conscious individuals are
sensitive about what others
think of them. Their concern
about rejection and ridicule
cause them to feel shy and
uncomfortable around others.
They are easily embarrassed. |
Immoderation
People who score in the high
range for Immoderation
feel strong cravings and urges
that they have difficulty
resisting - even though they
know that they are likely to
regret it later.
They tend to be oriented toward
short-term pleasures and rewards
rather than long-term
consequences.
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Vulnerability
High scorers on Vulnerability
have difficulty in coping with
stress. They experience
panic, confusion and
helplessness when under pressure
or when facing emergency
situations. |
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