Overview
The Personality results in TraitLab Pro help members understand their personality across five broad dimensions, commonly known as the Big Five or OCEAN. These dimensions provide a comprehensive framework for understanding individual differences in how people think, feel, and behave.
The Big Five dimensions are:
Openness to Experience: Reflects how open someone is to new ideas, experiences, and creative thinking. People higher in openness tend to be curious, imaginative, and enjoy exploring novel concepts, while those lower in openness prefer familiar routines and conventional approaches.
Conscientiousness: Describes how organized, disciplined, and goal-oriented someone tends to be. People higher in conscientiousness are typically methodical, reliable, and focused on achievement, while those lower in conscientiousness tend to be more flexible, spontaneous, and adaptable to changing circumstances.
Extraversion: Captures how energized someone feels by social interaction and external stimulation. People higher in extraversion tend to be outgoing, assertive, and energized by being around others, while those lower in extraversion often prefer quieter environments and smaller social groups.
Agreeableness: Reflects how much someone prioritizes cooperation, trust, and harmony in relationships. People higher in agreeableness tend to be compassionate, trusting, and focused on maintaining positive relationships, while those lower in agreeableness are often more competitive, skeptical, and direct in their communication.
Neuroticism: Describes how someone typically responds to stress, uncertainty, and negative emotions. People higher in neuroticism tend to experience emotions more intensely and may be more sensitive to stress, while those lower in neuroticism typically remain calmer and more emotionally stable in challenging situations.
Each person's personality can be summarized well by a different combination of Big Five dimensions. There is no "good" or "bad" set of Big Five scores. The Big Five system simply gives us a useful way to describe different ways people tend to think, feel, and behave.
Results in TraitLab Pro
To access personality results, select a member from your Dashboard. Personality results will be available if the member has completed their assessments and "Personality Traits" was included in the original invitation.
Individual member personality results are shown in three ways:
One-sentence summary
A single sentence that captures broad tendencies about the member's personality across all five dimensions.
Trait scores
A visual representation of the member's scores on each of the Big Five dimensions. Each trait is displayed as a horizontal line with markers indicating very low, low, average, high, and very high levels. A blue line highlights the portion that represents the member's score range, showing how they compare to a large, diverse sample of people.
The blue line represents the margin of error around the member's score, with the center of the blue line being the best estimate of their actual score level.
Trait summaries
These 1-2 sentence summaries describe each Big Five score in more detail, explaining what the member's level on each dimension might mean for their typical thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.