Measuring Personality

About the lecture

In this lecture, we think about how personality can be measured, focusing in particular on: (i) understanding personality as an enduring trait; (ii) the ‘Big Five’ personality traits, modelled in the 1980’s by Costa and McCrae; (iii) each of the ‘Big Five’ personality traits, as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism; (iv) the overlap between the ‘Big Five’ personality traits and Cattell’s 16 traits; (v) Hollander’s 1971 model of personality, made up of the psychological core, typical responses and role related behaviours; (vi) the limitation of personality research being that it can be context dependent.

About the lecturer

Dr Anthony Miller is a lecturer in the School of Health, Science and Wellbeing at Staffordshire University. Dr Miller’s research interests are in understanding human performance and wellbeing under pressure, with a particular focus on the social identity approach to leadership. Some of Dr Miller’s recent publications include 'Psychological distress across sport participation groups: The mediating effects of secondary irrational beliefs on the relationship between primary irrational beliefs and symptoms of anxiety, and depression' (2019) and 'Test-retest reliability of the irrational performance beliefs inventory' (2018).