8Conscientiousness
The very short test of the Big Five factors1 which was mentioned in Section 6 describes the person scoring high on agreeableness as:
Someone who likes to plan things, likes to tidy up, pays attention to details, but can be rigid and inflexible.
As with agreeableness, you may wish to ask your colleagues and family to rate you against these statements using the scale given in Section 3.
Evidence for the importance of conscientiousness in accounting for variability in personality was mixed. In one study it was almost as important as were extraversion and agreeableness. In another, by the same researchers, it was much ...
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