Title: Openness to Experience Personality Trait - Psychologist World
Headings: Openness to Experience Personality Trait
Personality
Openness to Experience Personality Trait
The openness to experience personality trait measures our receptivity to new ideas and experiences.
A ‘Big Five’ Factor
Measuring Openness
Openness and Intelligence
Individual Differences in Openness
Age and Openness
Gender
Cultural Differences
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Content: The findings of the study suggest that as we grow older, our willingness to embrace new ideas and experiences gradually decreases ( Costa et al, 1986 ). Gender
Differences have also found between openness to experience in men and women. When openness as a personality factor is distinguished from intellect, women have been found to exhibit higher levels of openness than their male counterparts. However, on a facet level, conflicting correlations - both positive and negative - have been found between gender and the individual facets associated with openness ( Weisberg, DeYoung and Hirsh, 2011 ). Cultural Differences
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Measures of openness depend upon the lexical approach of describing personality using a person’s native language. Therefore, the English-based inventories used to evaluate openness cannot be used to identify the trait in non-English speaking cultures. As a result, psychologists have developed localized questionnaires for different cultures, attempting to find equivalent terms that describe facets of the five factor traits in languages such as French, German and Spanish. A series of studies investigating the replicability of Big Five factor observations in non-English speaking countries have found traits such as openness to be universally applicable across a diverse range of cultures. Continue Reading: