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{: #agreeableness}
Agreeableness is a person's tendency to be compassionate and cooperative toward others. The tables that follow qualify results for characteristics as high or low: {: shortdesc}
- Any score above the mean of 0.5 indicates a greater than average tendency for a characteristic. A score at or above 0.75 indicates readily discernible aspects of the characteristic; such scores are considered high.
- The opposite statements are true of scores below 0.50 and 0.25, which are considered low.
For more information, see Percentiles for personality characteristics.
{: #facets-agree}
Brief descriptions of the dimension's facets and of individuals who score high in each facet.
| Facet | Individuals who score high... |
|---|---|
| Altruism / Altruistic | Find that helping others is genuinely rewarding, that doing things for others is a form of self-fulfillment rather than self-sacrifice. |
| Cooperation / Accommodating / Compliance | Dislike confrontation. They are perfectly willing to compromise or to deny their own needs to get along with others. |
| Modesty / Modest | Are unassuming, rather self-effacing, and humble. However, they do not necessarily lack self-confidence or self-esteem. |
| Morality / Uncompromising / Sincerity | See no need for pretense or manipulation when dealing with others and are therefore candid, frank, and genuine. |
| Sympathy / Empathetic | Are tender-hearted and compassionate. |
| Trust / Trusting of others | Assume that most people are fundamentally fair, honest, and have good intentions. They take people at face value and are willing to forgive and forget. |
{: #range-agree}
General descriptions that might apply to individuals whose scores evidence more or less of each facet of the dimension, as well as terms that might describe such individuals.
| Description of low value | Description of high value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Term | Facet | Term | Description |
| You are more concerned with taking care of yourself than taking time for others. | Self-focused | Altruism | Altruistic | You feel fulfilled when helping others and will go out of your way to do so. |
| You do not shy away from contradicting others. | Contrary | Cooperation | Accommodating | You are easy to please and try to avoid confrontation. |
| You hold yourself in high regard and are satisfied with who you are. | Proud | Modesty | Modest | You are uncomfortable being the center of attention. |
| You are comfortable using every trick in the book to get what you want. | Compromising | Morality | Uncompromising | You think it is wrong to take advantage of others to get ahead. |
| You think people should generally rely more on themselves than on others. | Hard-hearted | Sympathy | Empathetic | You feel what others feel and are compassionate toward them. |
| You are wary of other people's intentions and do not trust easily. | Cautious of others | Trust | Trusting of others | You believe the best of others and trust people easily. |
{: #dimensions-agree}
Information that relates the dimension to other dimensions, describing combinations of personality characteristics. Provides insight into how primary and secondary characteristics might interrelate to represent an individual's composite personality.
| Dimension | High agreeableness | Low agreeableness | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conscientiousness | High | Helpful, cooperative, considerate, respectful, polite | Strict, rigid, stern |
| Low | Unpretentious, self-effacing | Inconsiderate, impolite, distrustful, uncooperative, thoughtless | |
| Extraversion | High | Effervescent, happy, friendly, merry, jovial | Bullheaded, abrupt, crude, combative, rough |
| Low | Soft-hearted, agreeable, obliging, humble, lenient | Cynical, wary of others, reclusive, detached, impersonal | |
| Emotional range | High | Sentimental, affectionate, sensitive, soft, passionate | Critical, selfish, ill-tempered, antagonistic, grumpy |
| Low | Generous, pleasant, tolerant, peaceful, flexible | Insensitive, unaffectionate, passionless, unemotional | |
| Openness | High | Genial, tactful, diplomatic, deep, idealistic | Shrewd, eccentric, individualistic |
| Low | Dependent, simple | Coarse, tactless, curt, narrow-minded, callous | |