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Your Online Personality Questionnaire Results

Your score on Openness to Experience places you in the middle range, indicating you have a
combined style of thinking: sometimes you like to think in plain and simple terms, when the
circumstances dictate, while at other times you like to think in more complex, abstract ways. You like
a combination of these styles of thinking, and combine them in ways to best suit what you are doing.
Sometimes you are down-to-earth, practical, and a no- nonsense type of person. At other times, you
prefer more novel and stimulating things. This combination of being a "doer" and "thinker" puts you
in a potential strong position in your occupational, social and personal life. It is a very flexible way of
perceiving, thinking and behaving towards the world, and means that you can apply yourself to
different tasks with ease and flexibility.

In terms of enhancing your potential, you might want to consider experimenting separately with
exclusively novel/stimulating tasks and routine/practical tasks. Such experimentation would
strengthen your cognitive skills in these two different areas, and this would serve to improve your
overall performance when both sets of skills are required, as well as allowing you to deal with
situations that require a high level of proficiency in one of other of these areas.

Your score on Conscientiousness places you in the middle range. This means you are reasonably
reliable, organized, and self-controlled. You neither like to live for the moment and do what feels
good now nor become too stuck in mundane routine and attention to detail. Your occupational,
social and personal lives tend to be well-organised, and where things go wrong you have the
capability to go about remedying matters in a sensible fashion.

In occupational contexts, you have the ability to switch between attention to detail, when this is
necessary, and seeing the bigger picture, when this is necessary: this is a great asset. One possible
downside is in those areas where either extreme attention to detail or the bigger picture is needed.
Here you might want to experiment with acquiring the ability to attend to detail only and then to
ignore detail and focus on the bigger picture. This acquired ability would place you at great
advantage when situations arise that demand one of these two extreme forms of behaviour.

Your score on Extraversion places you in the middle range, indicating you are neither a subdued
loner nor a jovial chatterbox. You enjoy time with others, but also time alone. Your behaviour can
depend on the situation, and you are neither always introverted nor always extraverted. You have a
good balance of Extraversion that allows you to respond appropriately to different demands made
upon you. How you typically behave will be influenced by your scores on the other four dimensions
of personality, especially Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, and Neuroticism.
When you are in a slightly introverted mood, you prefer being reserved and quiet and you may enjoy
some solitude and solitary activities. You are neither a raving party-goer or wall-flower, all of the
time, but you can switch between these behaviours as you see fit. You probably have a few good
friends, as well as wide circle of acquaintances. In occupational settings you have the ability to
modify your behaviour according to what is required, and people will see you as sociable, but not
overly so. If you are high on Agreeableness, people will see you as a likable person, who gets on
with many people.

The challenges that you face is being able to use the information provided from your other four
dimensions to decide what's most appropriate in the specific occupational, social or personal context
you find yourself in. Your Extraversion score does not incline you towards great introversion or
Extraversion, and this gives you considerable potential flexibility in dealing with social situations in
the most appropriate manner.

Your level of Agreeableness places you in the middle range, indicating some concern with others'
needs, but, generally, unwillingness to sacrifice yourself for others. You can be tough, critical, and
uncompromising when the situation demands, but also tender-minded, accepting and compromising
at other times. How you typically behave will be influenced by your scores on the other four
dimensions of personality, especially Openness to Experience, and Neuroticism.

Your flexibility, and ability to modify your behaviour depending on what the situation demands,
meaning that other people will see you as a particular asset and not something who is stuck in one
mode of behaving irrespective of what the situation demands. Although extreme ways of thinking,
feeling and behaving are usually inappropriate, you might want to play around with developing some
very tough-minded ways of thinking and behaving, as well very tender-minded ways, so that if
situations arise that call for such extreme responses then you are prepared to respond. Developing
the capacity to switch between these states may be especially beneficial in different areas of your
occupational, social and personal life.

Your score on Neuroticism is high indicating that you are quite easily upset, even by what most
people consider the normal demands of living. People consider you to be sensitive and emotional.
Being sensitive and emotional may be beneficial in some situations, where they are appropriate;
they may also be a pre-requisite for strong empathy and artistic feelings. However, experiencing
frequent and intense emotional reactions is not good from either psychological or physiological
perspective. Things often get blown out of proportion and other people can be hurt and offended by
strong emotional over reactions, especially when such emotional reactions lead to arguments where
things are said and done that have long-term negative consequences.

Whilst recognising that you are an emotional person, with the capacity to experience a full and rich
range of emotions, you should start to develop a strategy to reduce the negative consequences of
frequent and intense emotions in order not to let them harm the way you feel about yourself and the
world, as well as the bad effects they can have on others. One strategy might be 'time-out': when
you feel yourself getting angry or upset, then remove yourself from the situation or person(s) who
are provoking this reaction for 10 minutes. Don't just walk out, but say something like 'Excuse me for
10 minutes, I need to do something.'
Alternatively, if you are feeling overwhelmed by multiple worries, you may find it helpful to write
down a list of the things that are worrying you. Then you can simply read the list and cross out all
the items that you cannot change and all the items that are not important in the big scheme of
things. This will help you to calm down and focus on the things that are really important and things
that you can change. Negative emotions tend to dominate the way we think, feel and behave, so it is
important that you rehearse in advance how you should think, feel and behave when you feel the
surge of negative emotions building-up. They merely represent emotion centres in your brain that
are over-reactive, so you need to develop skills to allow you avoid becoming dominated by them,
especially when this badly affects work, social or family relations.

Your actual scores were as follows:

Openness = 37
Conscientiousness = 52
Extraversion = -5
Agreeableness = 41
Neuroticism = 62

I hope you enjoyed taking this personality questionnaire and found the results interesting and of
some value to you. They are only a starting point to further developing your psychological skills and
achieving your full potential. Remember though, whatever your scores, you are a unique person who
does not fit exactly into any convenient categories. A questionnaire such as the one you have just
completed can indicate only general areas of personality. Whilst these are undoubtedly important in
your life, it is equally important that you feel comfortable with your personality and use the
information contained in your personality profile to devise ways of using your existing potential to
enhance those areas of your life that you particularly value and cherish.

Best wishes,

Dr Adam Perkins

This personality questionnaire is provided free of charge for personal interest only and no
responsibility will be accepted for any other usage of the results, such as in organizational or clinical
domains.