Reflective Essay: The Five Factor Personality Test

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The Five Factor Personality Test was an eye opening experience its crazy how a simple test can know so much about you from a sum of questions. I thought it was an interesting experience and I learned a lot about myself some things I knew others I supposed but never really thought about them. Personality is such a big aspect of the human being, my personality type says a lot about what type of person I am how far I will go in life and how I deal with things. This test was spot on. I very much agree with the different factors and each facet.
For example, with the extraversion facets they were almost all average scores. What caught my eye was that the gregariousness was very low, I’m friendly and pretty cheerful but I got a 14 for gregariousness. I do love being by myself at times I love having private time where it can be my thoughts and I. I feed of alone time if I don’t have it I even get in a bad mood after a while. I cannot be around big crowds the feeling of being surrounded by a large group of people makes me feel anxious. Speaking of anxiety this ties in with the neuroticism section of the test my scores were pretty eye opening. I already know I am an anxious person I just did not know I would get such a high level of it on this test I got 84 very high. Again I agree I am very anxious since I was a child, I feel like I need to …show more content…

In some way you are also learning about each of our personalities. This was a fun way to find out things about ourselves. I think my life, my environment and genetics can have so much to do with a person and how the person acts. I see the qualities I've been taught but I also see the qualities I have inherited through genetics; through my parents, grandparents and so on. This was a unique experiment and the knowledge I have gained from something as simple as a test is