Personality Assignment

Summer 2022

In this assignment you will be investigating personality through the use of questionnaires. This will give you some hands-on experience in the types of methods that psychology researchers use when studying personality. However, in this case you will be investigating only one person (rather than many as researchers typically do). Choose someone in your life to be your "participant". It should be someone that you know fairly well - a friend, family member, or roommate. Ask them the questions listed below (Parts 1-3) and then respond to the follow-up question at the bottom (Part 4). 

 

Part 1: Demographics

1. Age: _36_____

2. Gender:   □ Male     □ Female    □ Non-binary    □ Prefer not to answer

3. Status in Canada:   □ Citizen     □ Landed immigrant     □ Refugee

4. Education: What is the highest level of education that you have attained? _

Grade 12______________________________________

5. Religion: What is your religious background?

□ Catholic     □ Jewish     □ Muslim    □ Protestant     □ Other __________________________________

6. Ethnicity: Please check the box(es) that best describe the group(s) with which you would identify. 

□ Arab     □ Black    □ Chinese     □ Latin American     □ Filipino      □ Indigenous   

□ Japanese     □ Korean     □ Persian     □ South Asian     □ Southeast Asian   

□ West Asian    □ White/Caucasian     □ Prefer not to answer

□ Other (please specify) _____________________________

7. Disability: Do you identify as having a disability?

□ Yes    □ No     □ Prefer not to answer

 

Part 2: Personality

For each of the items below, circle the number that corresponds best with the participant's typical behaviour. Ask the participant to say how much they agree or disagree that the statements match them in their daily lives.

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree
1. I usually do tasks properly	1	2	3	4	5
2. I worry a lot	1	2	3	4	5
3. I have a lot of interests	1	2	3	4	5
4.  I can easily get others excited about doing things	1	2	3	4	5
5.  I can easily trust others	1	2	3	4	5
6.  I get nervous easily	1	2	3	4	5
7.  I like to think about things	1	2	3	4	5
8. I am diligent and work fast	1	2	3	4	5
9. I can easily forgive others after an argument	1	2	3	4	5
10. I like to be around other people	1	2	3	4	5
11. I usually do what I intend to do	1	2	3	4	5
12. I have a lot of imagination	1	2	3	4	5
13. I can be moody and my mood changes quickly	1	2	3	4	5
14. I prefer to work with others than alone	1	2	3	4	5
15. I like to help others	1	2	3	4	5

 

** Coding/Analysing: To create a score for the participant on each of the Big Five personality traits, tally up the points in the following order:

1. Extraversion: Sum of items 4, 10, and 14

Score: __11____

1. Openness: Sum of items 3, 7, and 12

Score: __8____

1. Neuroticism: Sum of items 2, 6, and 13

Score: __9____

1. Agreeableness: Sum of items 5, 9, and 15

Score: __15____

1. Conscientiousness: Sum of items 1, 8, and 11

Score: __13____

What are the top two highest scoring personality traits? What are the two lowest scoring personality traits?

 

The top two highest scoring personality traits are Agreeableness and   Conscientiousness.

The two lowest scoring personality traits are Openness and Neuroticism.

 

Part 3: Motivation (pursuing goals) and Self-Efficacy (believing that you can reach your goals)

For each of the items below, circle the number that corresponds best with the participant's typical levels of motivation and self-efficacy. Ask the participant to say how true or not true the statements match them in their daily lives.

		Not At All True	Hardly True	Moderately True	Exactly True
1.	I can always manage to solve difficult problems if I try hard enough.	1	2	3	4
2.	If someone opposes me, I can find the means and ways to get what I want.	1	2	3	4
3.	It is easy for me to stick to my aims and accomplish my goals.	1	2	3	4
4.	I am confident that I could deal efficiently with unexpected events.	1	2	3	4
5.	Thanks to my resourcefulness, I know how to handle unforeseen situations.	1	2	3	4
6.	I can solve most problems if I invest the necessary effort.	1	2	3	4
7.	I can remain calm when facing difficulties because I can rely on my coping abilities.	1	2	3	4
8.	When I am confronted with a problem, I can usually find several solutions.	1	2	3	4
9.	If I am in trouble, I can usually think of a solution.	1	2	3	4
10.	I can usually handle whatever comes my way.	1	2	3	4

 

** Coding/Analysing: To create a score for the participant on their level of motivation and self-efficacy, tally up all of the numbers that you circled above

            Total Score: __35______

Categories:

1. Very low motivation and self-efficacy: scores from 10-19
2. Some motivation and self-efficacy: scores from 20-29
3. Average motivation and self-efficacy: scores from 30-39
4. Very high motivation and self-efficacy: scores from 40-49

 

Part 4: Analysis and Discussion

Please give a summary of the participant's personality and motivation/self-efficacy, and provide your analysis and comments. Specifically, comment on how effective these questionnaires were at describing the participant - is this an accurate representation of who this person is?