Factors of Personality Traits

Question: Define the Factors of Personality Traits. Answer: Studies have shown there is a strong connection between personality traits and healthy related attitudes and behavior. Individuals personality shapes their behavior and attitude. The proposal will assess the relationships between personality traits, healthy behavior, and healthy attitude. The study would aim to relate the personality traits to the five big meta traits of personality so as to find out how personality affects the healthy behavior (Ryan Deci, 2011). The five meta traits of personality that would be included are: Extraversion-Introversion, Emotional Stability-Neuroticism, Conscientiousness-Impulsivity, Agreeableness-Hostility, and Openmindedness-Closedmindedness. The participants would be of almost the same age around 25 to 40 years. The study would be based on scoring the individuals on these five aspects. For Neuroticism two aspects would be considered smoking and alcohol. The hypothesis is Higher Neuroticism relates to undesirable healthy behavior and attitude. The a nalysis method use for this would be Cox model. The second trait of conscientiousness hypothesis is higher levels of conscientiousness are associated with lower mortality. The analysis of it would be done using SEM model. The third trait openmindedness would be related to healthy behavior and healthy attitude. Open mind personality individuals have a healthy behavior and healthy attitude. For this Scoring method would be used. The fourth trait Agreeableness signifies a patient personality trait which is associated to a positive healthy behavior and attitude. The analysis would be done by the SEM model only. The fifth trait Extroversion would relate to outgoing, friendly, lively, active, and talkative features (Nicholas et al, 2015). The effect of this trait on behavior and attitude is desirable. The analysis would be done using Cox model. The controls that would be considered during the study would be alcohol abuse, drug abuse, smoking, and any other bad habit. The findings would be taken and assessed according to the scores of the participants. The five personality traits would show how the participants behavior and attitude varies with their traits (Goodwin Friedman, 2006). Like for example an open mind and extrovert individual would have a healthy attitude and healthy behavior. On the other hand, a close mind and introvert individual may have undesirable attitude and behavior. The mediators like alcohol abuse and drug abuse will affect the behavior and attitude in many ways. The mediators would be taken care of during the analysis process. The outcome of the study would be how the five personality traits affect the healthy behavior and attitude. References Goodwin, R.D. Friedman, H.S. (2006). Health status and the five-factor personality traits in a nationally representative sample.J Health Psychol. 11:64354. Nicholas, A.; Turiano, Benjamin, P.; Chapman; Tara, L.; Gruenewald; Daniel, K.; Mroczek. (2015). Personality and the Leading Behavioral Contributors of Mortality, Health Psychol.; 34(1): 5160 Ryan, R. M.; Deci, E. L. (2011). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55, 6878