The Big Five Model

Society has discovered the relation between personality and psychopathology, whereby the current community is majorly focused on analyzing the function of the former in the field of the latter. The Big Five Model, also termed FFM (The Five-Factor Model), is a famous approach that enables the audience to learn more about human personality, and it covers five personality qualities; openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, and conscientiousness (Shi et al., 2018). It is an approach that uses the mentioned traits to try and understand as well as analyze people’s actions and behaviors. The openness personality describes creative or artistic individuals, while the extraversion trait indicates assertive and enthusiastic people. Agreeableness is connected to gentleness, reliability, and warmth; neuroticism is demonstrated as self-consciousness, while conscientiousness is understood as the inclination to competence and dutifulness (Shi et al., 2018). Even though the model deals with one of the significant aspects of psychopathology, and despite its shortcomings, it is relevant to proving its validity, the primary aim of this paper.