posted August 18, 2006 01:26 AM              

Masculine VS Feminine Personality
Which character traits do you personally attribute to either of the 2 categories either in your life or in general:

Bearing
Confidence
Courage
Integrity
Decisiveness
Justice
Endurance
Tact
Initiative
Coolness
Maturity
Improvement
Will
Assertiveness
Candor
Sense of humor
Competence
Commitment
Creativity
Self-discipline
Humility
Flexibility
Empathy/Compassion

Here are some factors to consider:

The Big Five Personality Factors
A remarkably strong consensus of what traits are basic has emerged over the last 20 years. Five superordinate factors have emerged and are referred to as the Big Five or the 5-factor model. These five factors are well supported by a wide variety of research.

The early evidence supporting a 5-factor model was first published by Fiske, in 1949. During the 1980s and 90s a vast array of research has combined to support the 5 factors. Not everyone however agrees in the naming of the five supertraits.

The 5-factor model is commonly measured by the NEO by Costa and McCrae (1985).

The Big 5 according to the NEO are Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness
to Experience, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness (Remember OCEAN, or NEOAC):

Neuroticism (Emotional Stability)

Extraversion (Introversion)

Openness to experience (Closedness to experiences)

Agreeableness (Disagreeableness)

Conscientiousness (Lack of conscientiousness)
Each Supertrait is measured by 6 facets (or subordinate traits). These are:

N
E
O
A
C

Anxiety
Warmth
Fantasy
Trust
Competence

Angry hostility
Gregariousness
Aesthetics
Straightforward-ness
Order

Depression
Assertiveness
Feelings
Altruism
Dutifullness

Self-consciousness
Activity
Actions
Compliance
Achievement striving

Impulsiveness
Excitement-seeking
Ideas
Modesty
Self Discipline

Vulnerability
Positive emotion
Values
Tender-mindedness
Deliberation

And just a little thing, if you notice the majority of people throughout our "media" and history who are seen as the object of beauty are MASCULINE dominant?
But ones who are seen as devoted to service and ones own inner potential are FEMININE dominanat? Does anyone have a scientific answer to this (what I like to call backwards, wayward, reversed, etc)phenomenon?

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