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"broad traits" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It refers to general characteristics or qualities of a person, thing, or concept. You can use it when describing someone or something in a broad or general manner, rather than focusing on specific details. For example: - Sarah's broad traits include intelligence, creativity, and a strong work ethic. - The company's success can be attributed to its broad traits of innovation, adaptability, and teamwork. - In his speech, the professor discussed the broad traits of democracy and how they have evolved over time. - The artist's paintings are known for their bold use of color and abstract forms, which are some of his broad traits as a painter.
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Unlike the broad traits supposedly assessed by personality tests, self-control struck Mischel as potentially measurable.
This list – developed during the 1980s and 1990s by Robert McCrae, Paul Costa and a number of others – describes personality using five broad traits, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience.
The Big Five measures individual differences across five broad traits: openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism (or its converse, emotional stability).
The other neuroticism facets (e.g., vulnerability, emotional instability, and lack of energy) were most related with rumination suggesting that the broad traits of emotional distress that characterize neuroticism play a role on the development of rumination.
Larger effect sizes associated with broad traits may be better suited to objectives with a more clinical focus.
As mentioned earlier, broad traits, such as Compulsivity, consist only of shared variance of their associated narrow traits.
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In addition to the trait QTL identified above, additional loci were mapped for the broad trait areas of blood analytes/potassium on chromosome 9 (QTL peak = 0 cM; maximum LOD = 5.1), and bone on chromosomes 10 and 14 (BMD; QTL peak = 60 cm and 13 cm, respectively; maximum LOD = 5.0 and 4.3, respectively).
In 1985, Costa and McCrae proposed that individual differences in personality characteristics generally reflect five broad trait dimensions: neuroticism (N), extraversion (E), openness to experience (O), agreeableness (A), and conscientiousness (C).
The diagnostic label of "PD-Trait Specified" that is assigned in the third step is elucidated by the assessment on five broad trait domains and 25 more specific trait facets, the fourth step (the diagnosis "dependent PD" has been skipped in this system due to the lack of empirical evidence).
Individual level variation in behaviour can be understood within the context of the animal personality literature, which focuses on broad trait categories including boldness, exploration behaviour, risk taking, aggression and sociability (Bell, Hankison, & Laskowski, 2009; Reale, Reader, Sol, McDougall, & Dingemanse, 2007).
This suggests that when encountering a new person who is similar to ourselves on very broad trait categories we may include them in our sense of self (i.e. see them as similar to ourselves) without believing they are necessarily a more likeable person.
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