Big Five Personality Model

The "Big Five Personality Model" is a psychological trait theory that identifies and categorizes human personality into five broad dimensions—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—distinguishing it from other personality frameworks by its empirical basis in factor-analytic studies of trait descriptors.

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13.5K

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2017–2026

2K

Variants

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Authors

13.5K

  1. PT
    Paul T. Costa

    National Institute on Aging, United States

    79 publications · 37.5K citations

    63

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  2. JD
    Joshua D. Miller

    University of Georgia, United States

    97 publications · 11.4K citations

    55

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  3. TA
    Thomas A. Widiger

    University of Kentucky, United States

    84 publications · 8.5K citations

    51

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  4. MC
    Michael C. Ashton

    Brock University, Canada

    60 publications · 18.2K citations

    46

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  5. DR
    Donald R. Lynam

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    72 publications · 12.2K citations

    46

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Venues

  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    240 publications · 79K citations

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  2. Personality and Individual Differences

    563 publications · 64.2K citations

    118

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  3. Journal of Personality

    205 publications · 28.4K citations

    89

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  4. European Journal of Personality

    212 publications · 21.9K citations

    86

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  5. Journal of Research in Personality

    156 publications · 39.1K citations

    70

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