The purpose of this report is to provide answers to the questions presented in the Rasmussen General Psychology course research project. The first question asked was what are the five personality traits according to the five-factor model. According to the website psychology.suite101 (Pawlik-Kienlen, 2007), the big five personality traits are: • Conscientiousness – being disciplined, dedicated, and organized. It also means being disciplined, having goals in life and striving to achieve them. • Agreeableness – being pleasant and easy-going, cooperative, compassionate and caring • Neuroticism – being easily influenced by negative emotions such as depression, anger, or anxiety, moody • Openness – being willing to try new things and ideas, experiencing new adventures, appreciation of art, imaginative, creative • Extroversion – being positive, optimistic, energetic and self-confident. The second question asked was to explain what it means to be high or low in these traits. My explanation is that being high or low in a specific trait is not necessarily good or bad. Most people fall into the intermediate or “normal” zone. It is simply an indication of where a person is on the scale in each specific area to determine what their individual personality traits are. The next task was to read the scientific article: The Big Five Personality Traits, General Mental Ability and Career. lifelong success and address the two personality traits that are correlated with job satisfaction and briefly describe these correlations. The two personality traits most correlated with job satisfaction are conscientiousness and extroversion. Awareness due to the tendency... middle of paper ......definition provided in each of them, I could easily see them reflected in my personality. The results are as follows:1. Extraversion - (25) average - I am neither very energetic nor too reserved.2. Agreeableness – (26) average – I'm not overly trusting and I'm not very aggressive either3. Conscientiousness - (41) relatively high - I am very methodical and organized but not easily distracted4. Neuroticism – (11) relatively low – I am secure and relaxed but not overly emotional5. Openness - (19) relatively low - I am not exceptionally creative nor do I seek out culture. I'm quite a down-to-earth person. Note: According to the test, the score on each scale is interpreted against a large sample of people who have taken the test and relatively high means my score was in the top 30. % and relatively low means my score was low 30%.