For decades, psychologists strived to understand people and their personalities by defining personality traits. Eventually, most settled on the five-factor model, also known as the big five.

A more recently introduced six-factor model known as HEXACO adds the factor of honesty-humility to the original five traits. One test, the latest version of the Big Five Inventory, asks how much a ...

For more on the five-factor model, see the Big Five Personality Traits. What is openness? Created with Sketch. Openness (also called openness-to-experience or open-mindedness) reflects ...

It's one of the big five traits taken from the five-factor model of personality, a widely accepted personality model. Openness is characterized by your use of imagination. It has a bearing on how ...

Today we focus on one of the concepts under trait theories known as the Five Factor Model or the Big Five Personality traits. It is one of the most studied and applied models in the description of ...

The five-factor model traits of openness to experience/intellect and agreeableness, as well as Eysenck’s psychoticism trait, were not associated with physical activity. Potential moderators of ...

The test — the International Personality Item Pool, available online in both long and short versions — rates you on five personality traits, known to psychologists as the "Big Five." ...

The following is a summary of “Relationship between personality traits and health-related quality of life after ...