“How ‘Normal’ is ‘Abnormal’”; Big Five personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness) and Narcissism

It has been subjected that abnormal personality can be molded as extremes of normal personality. The big five personality traits have been constantly used by psychologists describe the human psyche. These include:

This study also involved other traits such as narcissism and creativity which can be related to the big five. It is known that high end of extraversion and low and agreeableness are related to narcissism. Creativity, which is such an abstract concept, was measured using self-reported creativity and biographical inventory of creative behaviors. Interestingly, both openness and extraversion were related to self-reported creativeness in order to create novel and creative ideas this was turned over inclusiveness. Now there is a considerable body of empirical research the proposed a link between creativity and personality mood disorders leading to a genetic marker that brings creativity and psychotic traits as they come hand in hand. Obsessive-compulsive disorder exhibit neatness, order, cleanliness and perfectionism which contrasts completely with creative mindsets. This study also post narcissism as the other extreme of personality variants, since most narcissists would be characterized by grandiosity they would think of themselves as highly creative individuals. In this study there was a sample of 207 individuals that were recruited, the participants for each between 16 and 54 and came from diverse ethnic backgrounds. In order to attain creativity they use the biographical inventory of creative behaviors(BICB) that correlates self-rated creativity with divergent thinking. A self-rating would also provide a secondary measure creativity. The study concluded to be a positive car relationship between creativity and both openness and extroversion with the two accounting for approximately 26 to 31%. To contrast this data there was a correlation that shows that obsessive-compulsiveness is associated with introversion and neuroticism and it's not especially related to openness. It was also suggested that obsessive-compulsiveness is hard to measure by the big five questionnaire. Although, contrary to their hypothesis, obsessive-compulsiveness was positively related to everyday creative achievement. In other words this evidence suggests that ritualistic behaviors could possibly help promote creative behaviors. But to be more specific, the creative behavior of people with OCD are more likely to be associated with creativity in the areas of science and technology rather than in the arts. People who also suffer from OCD have been shown to have high levels of narcissism that is related to self-perception.