Colleen is a 20-year-old university student who is outgoing, energetic and confident. Her interests involve performing, traveling and swimming. Colleen’s friends find her enthusiastic about life and open to new ideas and change. Colleen is currently studying psychology and aspires to work as a lecturer to share what she has learnt with others. As Colleen has siblings and cousins who excel in academic performance, she possesses a high motivation to strive for success in order to keep up with the people around her. In doing so, Colleen has perfectionistic strivings and pays attention to the smallest details of her work. Due to her inability to always achieve her targets, she has reflected on her life and easily feels frustrated. Colleen is able to maintain her social life while she concentrates on her university commitments. She enjoys meeting new people and engaging in exciting activities with her friends such as laser clay shooting and paintball fight. Colleen has strong opinions and rarely complies with others. Therefore, she often provides suggestions in group discussions and adheres to her judgements. …show more content…
The NEO PI-R is a questionnaire written by Costa and McCrae (1992) to measure five major domains of personality, which are Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), Openness (O), Agreeableness (A) and Conscientiousness (C), and six specific traits that define each domain. It consists