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How Does the SDI Compare to Five-Factor Models of Personality?
by Tim Scudder

You may have heard the acronym OCEAN in connection with five-factor models of personality because the factor names can be arranged as follows:

  • Openness to Experience: The degree to which a person needs intellectual stimulation, change, and variety.
  • Conscientiousness: The degree to which a person controls, regulates, and directs their impulses.
  • Extraversion: The degree to which a person engages with the external world.
  • Agreeableness: The degree to which a person needs pleasant and harmonious relations with others.
  • Neuroticism: The degree to which a person experiences negative feelings.

The five factors emerged from a substantial body of academic research and are widely believed to have a genetic component. Each factor is a broad category that includes many specific traits and rates a person along a continuum.
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