What does your/their score on the factor imply about your/their personality?

For this assignment, you are going to apply what you have learned about personality to yourself or to someone close to you. Using the measure of The Five Factor Model, discuss your standing or the standing of someone close to you on the five factors.

What does your/their score on the factor imply about your/their personality?
Does your/their standing on these traits explain some of your/their behavior? Choices in life?

Also, discuss what influence your/their standing on each trait might have in the following areas. How might a person’s personality traits influence each of these areas?

Academic functioning
Social functioning (including functioning in intimate relationships)
Occupational functioning
Health
Risk-taking
This assignment is designed to allow you to apply what you have learned to the real world of personality and to see how it operates in your life or in the life of someone close to you. Include your thoughts, ideas, and hypotheses whether or not there is scientific data to support them. It is also acceptable, and advisable to use first person pronouns in your paper.

Feel free to use the material provided only if it helps.

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