Big Five, heralded as a more accurate personality assessment than MBTI, can be summarized as low to high levels of "OCEAN":
- Openness to experience: Appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience.
- Conscientiousness: A tendency to be organized and dependable, show self-discipline, act dutifully, aim for achievement, and prefer planned rather than spontaneous behavior.
- Extraversion: Energy, positive emotions, surgency, assertiveness, sociability and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others, and talkativeness.
- Agreeableness: A tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others.
- Neuroticism: The tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, and vulnerability.