neuroticism

(noun)

The tendency to easily experience unpleasant emotions such as anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability.

Examples of neuroticism in the following topics:

  • The Big Five Personality Traits

    • The Big Five personality traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
    • Neuroticism - Neuroticism describes vulnerability to unpleasant emotions like anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability.
    • Neuroticism also refers to an individual's level of emotional stability and impulse control and is sometimes referred to as emotional stability.

  • Other Important Trait Theories

    • These traits are extroversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism.
    • Extroversion and neuroticism provide a two-dimensional space to describe individual differences in behavior.
    • An individual could rate high on both neuroticism and extroversion, low on both traits, or somewhere in between.

  • Leadership Traits

    • Some of the inherent leadership traits in Zaccaro's model include extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, neuroticism, honesty/integrity, charisma, intelligence, creativity, achievement motivation, need for power, oral/written communication, interpersonal skills, general problem-solving, decision making, technical knowledge, and management skills.

  • The Trait-Theory Approach

    • This model contends the following traits are correlated with strong leadership potential: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, neuroticism, honesty, charisma, intelligence, creativity, achievement motivation, need for power, communication skills, interpersonal skills, problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, technical knowledge, and management skills.