 |
| Obtained from: http://msfitmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-Brain-Stretch.jpg |
This particular test measured five personality constructs including: extroversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism. My scores were the following:
extroversion - 82%
openness to experience - 94%
conscientiousness - 86%
agreeableness - 87%
neuroticism - 44%
These scores and descriptors did not surprise me and the explanations for the most part were accurate to my personalty. Of all of these scores I am most interested in the neuroticism score. In this category high scores are assigned to highly emotionally reactive people with higher rates of negative feelings were as lower scores are assigned to people with less emotional reactivity. I find myself somewhere in the middle in this category, which I assume is somewhat good. I can be very passionate at times. I have also been known to occasionally have a temper, but I feel like on the whole I am fairly well balanced.
I am particularly interested in this score, because the scale explained that simply having a low score doesn't mean that you think or feel any more positively than a person with a high score, it just means you are less prone to reactivity in regard to emotions. I feel like mental health is a cornerstone to the other aspects of the survey and as such the interpretation and the reflection on the aspects of that attribute are immensely important.
James,
ReplyDeleteI also took the five factor test. Thank you for sharing your scores with everyone! It looks like you scored relatively high in all of the categories except for the last one. It seems that you would be a very easy person to work with in a professional learning setting. I think that everyone works through different emotions and it can be difficult at times to hide those emotions when working with other adults over important topics.
It's always nice to reflect on any aspect of ourselves that can affect our teaching and learning.
ReplyDeleteJames,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate what you have to say in regard to mental health. Tests like these can illuminate a lot of behavioral characteristics in ourselves and in others. I think that these tests are also fun to pull into the classroom, seeing how our students so often cannot place the source(s) of their frustration, so conversation about taking care of ourselves and how to understand the varying types of people that we are definitely benefits social emotional learning for all ages.