Discussion: Personality Traits and Personality Tests

One area of controversy is how well you can accurately assess the personalities of employees or potential employees. One popular way is through various assessment tools, such as questionnaires.

For your first post, give the following information:

  1. How would you rate yourself on each of the Big Five personality traits based on only the description of the trait? Would your friends agree with your self-ratings?
  2. After your own self-ratings, you can use the link provided in your textbook, http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ to take a personality test. Alternatively, you can do a word search in Google or other search engines on “big five personality test” and find an online personality test that will tell you how you rate on the Big Five dimensions.
  • Take the test and compare your results with your initial self-ratings.
  • How do you feel about the personality test you took? Was it accurate, or not very helpful?

Also, provide the link to the test from the text or the one you found in case any of your classmates want to use it.

For your second and third posts, compare your results with those of your classmates, and try to find a classmate with opposite traits from yours as well as one with very similar traits.

Additional Key Elements of the Assignment: Your Initial Post should occur in a timely manner (by the third day of the module for full timeliness points). Include the original questions along with your initial, informative post. Support your post with information from at least one high-quality peer-reviewed academic reference and provide the complete source information (so that your peers can find the article if they wish). Utilize your own personal experiences, as applicable.

Note: A URL (website address) is NOT a reference. A reference always contains four parts: author, publication date, article title, and the source of the article. Sometimes there is no author, but the APA manual tells you what you can put in that spot instead. The source for a high-quality peer-reviewed journal article is the journal!

Your Subsequent Posts: Read through responses by peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Introduce ideas/comments and/or research not mentioned yet.

Remember: To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). Only one outside source is needed (in the initial post). But in any post, if you borrow ideas/information from other authors, give them credit for their work.

Now that you have completed the three assignments in this module, do you agree with the statement, “Yes, I can meet the three Module 1 learning outcomes”? If your answer is no, please review the material again before taking your quiz in this module.