Openness to Experience Measure
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An Openness to Experience Measure is a personality measure that ...
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- See: Big Five Personality Traits, Personality Psychology, Psychometric, Normal Distribution, Absorption (Psychology), Subjective Well-Being.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/openness_to_experience Retrieved:2017-12-2.
- Openness to experience is one of the domains which are used to describe human personality in the Five Factor Model. [1] Openness involves six facets, or dimensions, including active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety, and intellectual curiosity. [2] A great deal of psychometric research has demonstrated that these facets or qualities are significantly correlated.[1] Thus, openness can be viewed as a global personality trait consisting of a set of specific traits, habits, and tendencies that cluster together. Openness tends to be normally distributed with a small number of individuals scoring extremely high or low on the trait, and most people scoring moderately.[1] People who score low on openness are considered to be closed to experience. They tend to be conventional and traditional in their outlook and behavior. They prefer familiar routines to new experiences, and generally have a narrower range of interests. Openness has moderate positive relationships with creativity, intelligence and knowledge. Openness is related to the psychological trait of absorption, and like absorption has a modest relationship to individual differences in hypnotic susceptibility. Openness has more modest relationships with aspects of subjective well-being than other Five Factor Model personality traits. On the whole openness appears to be largely unrelated to symptoms of mental disorders.