PERSONALITY
TRAIT THEORIES
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secondary
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central
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cardinal
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tertiary
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Detailed explanation-1: -A cardinal trait is one that dominates your entire personality, and hence your life-such as Ebenezer Scrooge’s greed and Mother Theresa’s altruism. Cardinal traits are not very common: Few people have personalities dominated by a single trait. Instead, our personalities typically are composed of multiple traits.
Detailed explanation-2: -Allport grouped these traits into three different categories: cardinal traits, central traits, and secondary traits.
Detailed explanation-3: -In their research, they classified traits into five broad dimensions: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. You can remember them by using the acronyms OCEAN or CANOE. Openness-Describes an individual’s openness to experience.