PERSONALITY AND PERSONAL GROWTH
SEVENTH 2026 CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED
A PLUS
◉ What do personal concerns consist of?
Answer: Things that are important to people, including their goals
and major concerns in life.
◉ What is a life narrative?
Answer: Aspects of personality that integrate to give a person an
identity or sense of self.
◉ What does the Five-Factor Model consist of?
Answer: Five independent dimensions of personality: Neuroticism,
Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness, and
Conscientiousness.
◉ What are the six facets of Neuroticism?
Answer: Anxiety, Hostility, Self-consciousness, Depression,
Impulsiveness, and Vulnerability.
, ◉ What are the six areas of Openness to Experience?
Answer: Fantasy, Aesthetics, Action, Ideas, Values, and Occupational
choice.
◉ What characterizes agreeable people?
Answer: They are not skeptical, mistrustful, callous, unsympathetic,
stubborn, rude, or aggressive go-getters.
◉ What traits describe conscientious people?
Answer: Hardworking, ambitious, energetic, scrupulous,
persevering, and desirous to make something of themselves.
◉ What changes occur in dispositional traits across adulthood
according to Costa and McCrae?
Answer: Over a 12-year period, 10 personality traits remained
stable, while extraversion and openness decrease, agreeableness
increases, and neuroticism often diminishes.
◉ What are the two forms of personality changes identified by
Ursula Staudinger?
Answer: Personality Adjustment (developmental changes in
adaptive value) and Personality Growth (ideal end states like self-
transcendence).
SEVENTH 2026 CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED
A PLUS
◉ What do personal concerns consist of?
Answer: Things that are important to people, including their goals
and major concerns in life.
◉ What is a life narrative?
Answer: Aspects of personality that integrate to give a person an
identity or sense of self.
◉ What does the Five-Factor Model consist of?
Answer: Five independent dimensions of personality: Neuroticism,
Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness, and
Conscientiousness.
◉ What are the six facets of Neuroticism?
Answer: Anxiety, Hostility, Self-consciousness, Depression,
Impulsiveness, and Vulnerability.
, ◉ What are the six areas of Openness to Experience?
Answer: Fantasy, Aesthetics, Action, Ideas, Values, and Occupational
choice.
◉ What characterizes agreeable people?
Answer: They are not skeptical, mistrustful, callous, unsympathetic,
stubborn, rude, or aggressive go-getters.
◉ What traits describe conscientious people?
Answer: Hardworking, ambitious, energetic, scrupulous,
persevering, and desirous to make something of themselves.
◉ What changes occur in dispositional traits across adulthood
according to Costa and McCrae?
Answer: Over a 12-year period, 10 personality traits remained
stable, while extraversion and openness decrease, agreeableness
increases, and neuroticism often diminishes.
◉ What are the two forms of personality changes identified by
Ursula Staudinger?
Answer: Personality Adjustment (developmental changes in
adaptive value) and Personality Growth (ideal end states like self-
transcendence).
