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A critique of Big Five & An applied personal profile As the name indicated, the Big Five (Costa and McCrae 1976) theory consisted of five factors: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. This time, one would critically review the Big Five personality theory. One would discuss the factor analytic technique that used to develop this approach, the reliability of this theory's taxonomy, the compression with other less broad or more detailed approaches and the application of this approach in the temporal states. Finally, the situational behaviors against stable personality would be presented. First of all, the factor analytic technique that was adopted for developing the Big Five has a few problems. McCrae and John (1992) argued that it was not a purely objective method and it required arbitrary decisions on analyzing. During the course of analyzing, there might be other factors which effected the interpretation of relationship between behavior and trait. But...

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