... understanding personality theory for theory’s sake Above all, if you are reading this, I suspect you want to know about and understand your own personality I would therefore urge you to turn to the Appendix ... score yourself using the Newcastle Personality Assessor before we go any further and you know too much about what is riding on your answers You may like to have your scores to hand as you read the ... time (By the way, the big five are traits I think people call it the fivefactor rather than the five-trait model because they like the alliteration.) Traits are continuous, like height is, rather than...