NEO Personality Inventory

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Personality models, originally created in psychologic research, are today applied and used as assessment tool in very different fields: In therapy, education, in the human-resource sector, or as basis for many different personalised services in the tech industry. Beyond the Myers Briggs Type Indicator the NEO Personality Inventory is widely known and used. It is a further development of the so called five factor model by P. T. Costa, Jr., and R. R. McCrae.

Because this model with its scales can be easily used for data analysis, it is very common and also plays a major role in the data industry today. It is used there for the creation of psychometric profiles, for example for tailor-made advertisements aiming to adress the characteristics of person more specifically than by standard campaign posters.

Revised NEO Personality Inventory (also: OCEAN)

Openness to experience

Aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas, values

Conscientiousness

Competence, order, dutifulness, striving to achieve, self-discipline, deliberation

Extraversion

Warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, seeking excitement, positive emotion

Agreeableness

Trust, straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, tendermindedness

Neuroticism

Anxiety, hostility, depression, self-consciousness,impulsiveness, vulnerability to stress

The model works with scales. A profile of a bit open, less conscientious, quite extraverted, altruistic and not very anxious person would look like:

O 30

C 20

E 50

A 70

N 30

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References

  1. Revised NEO Personality Inventory @Wikipedia

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