PSYC 332 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - PSYC 332
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The big 5 traits: evidence of their usefulness. In predicting important life outcomes: ex: the way we construct our social relationships, the way we follow health advice , the big 5 seems to be able to predict some things over time. In your own everyday life: there are more subtleties and complexities to the big 5-trait system. We might think that the system does not capture our personality but it is more complex than that and richard will explore this. What can the big 5 predict: marital outcomes, work performance (focus on meta-analysis, social patterns of university students (prospective longitudinal of students in. Germany: positive and negative affect, school performance. If you wanted to predict which marriages would unfold in a positive way versus a negative way, the most predictive trait was neuroticism. If you have a university degree, the 50% rate of divorce drops down to 20: religious beliefs and values, life events.
