Question

What are the “Big Five?” Is personality driven by nature or by nurture?

Answer 1

what are big five?/

These are the personality traits, generally indivisual personality is identified using some measures these are defined by different reasearches in different scenarios the main five primary factors of personality identified by Goldberg are;These are also calles OCEAN

1 Extroversion

2 Agreeableness.

3 Conscientiousness.

4Neuroticism.

5 Openness to experience.

For ex: the term agreeableness define terms like generosity, amiability, and warmth and aggressiveness and temper on negative side. The traits associated with neuroticism are jealous,tasty, fearfulness oversensitive. The traits associated with openess are imaginative, daring and intellectual. The traits associated with Conscientiousness are persistent, ambicious and planner etc.

Is personality driven by nature or by nurture??

Nature is as pre-wiring and is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors. Nurture is placed as the influence of external factors after conception, experience and learning on an individual. thus personality driven by nuture not nature