Big Five Personality Traits

Social and Emotional Skills Study

The Study on Social and Emotional Skills is a new OECD international survey that assesses 10 and 15 year-old students in a number of cities and countries around the world.

The study draws on a well-known framework in the field of social and emotional skills – the Big Five model – to provide a general outline of how these skills should be organized. Social and emotional skills in this model are arranged hierarchically, with five general skill categories that can be split into narrower, lower-order skills. The broad categories of the Big Five are:

1. Openness to experience (open-mindedness)

2. Conscientiousness (task performance)

3. Emotional stability (emotional regulation)

4. Extraversion (engaging with others)

5. Agreeableness (collaboration)

OECD Social and Emotional Skills Well-being, connectedness and success study