neuroticism

Examples of neuroticism in the following topics:

• Trait Anxiety

  • Individuals who score high on neuroticism are more likely than the average to experience such feelings as anxiety, anger, envy, guilt, and depressed mood.
  • Neuroticism is often marked by shyness and a lack of self-confidence, making tasks like public speaking seem like an insurmountable challenge.
  • Trait anxiety refers to a long-term form of anxiety, often stemming from neuroticism.

• The Five-Factor Model

  • Neuroticism also refers to an individual's degree of emotional stability and impulse control.
  • People high in neuroticism tend to experience emotional instability and are characterized as angry, impulsive, and hostile.
  • Watson and Clark (1984) found that people reporting high levels of neuroticism also tend to report feeling anxious and unhappy.
  • In contrast, people who score low in neuroticism tend to be calm and even-tempered.
  • Neuroticism and extroversion tend to decline slightly with age (Donnellan & Lucas; Terracciano et al.).

• The Big Five Personality Traits

  • The Big Five personality traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
  • Neuroticism - Neuroticism describes vulnerability to unpleasant emotions like anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability.
  • Neuroticism also refers to an individual's level of emotional stability and impulse control and is sometimes referred to as emotional stability.

• Other Important Trait Theories

  • These traits are extroversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism.
  • Extroversion and neuroticism provide a two-dimensional space to describe individual differences in behavior.
  • An individual could rate high on both neuroticism and extroversion, low on both traits, or somewhere in between.

• Allport's, Cattell's, and Eysenck's Trait Theories of Personality

  • He believed personality is largely governed by biology, and he viewed people as having two specific personality dimensions: extroversion vs. introversion and neuroticism vs. stability.
  • In the neuroticism/stability dimension, people high on neuroticism tend to be anxious; they tend to have an overactive sympathetic nervous system and even with low stress, their bodies and emotional state tend to go into a flight-or-fight reaction.
  • He also hypothesized that neuroticism was determined by individual differences in the limbic system, the part of the human brain involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory.

• The Brain and Personality

  • It was an investigation carried out in which identical and fraternal twins, ages 11 and 12, were tested for neuroticism.
  • Eysenck developed a model of personality based on neuroticism and a second factor, extroversion.
  • Eysenck also hypothesized that neuroticism was determined by individual differences in the limbic system, the part of the human brain involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory.

• Leadership Traits

  • Some of the inherent leadership traits in Zaccaro's model include extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, neuroticism, honesty/integrity, charisma, intelligence, creativity, achievement motivation, need for power, oral/written communication, interpersonal skills, general problem-solving, decision making, technical knowledge, and management skills.

• Workplace

  • The Big Five personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—have been linked to onboarding success.

• The Trait-Theory Approach

  • This model contends the following traits are correlated with strong leadership potential: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, neuroticism, honesty, charisma, intelligence, creativity, achievement motivation, need for power, communication skills, interpersonal skills, problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, technical knowledge, and management skills.

• Overview of Personality Assessment

  • According to the five factor model, the five dimensions of personality lies along a continuum of opposing poles and include Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.
  • Eysenck's inventory focuses on three dimensions: psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism.