Surgency

Surgency

Surgency is a personality attribute that is part of the Big Five personality traits, or the Five-factor model (FFM). It is most commonly referred to as the quality of extraversion. Other synonyms for surgency include dominance, self-confidence, competitiveness, outgoingness, and decisiveness. Surgency involves patterns of behaviour often exhibited in group settings and generally concerned with getting ahead in life. Such behavioural patterns often appear when someone is trying to influence or control others. Individuals lower in surgency prefer to work by themselves and have relatively little interest in influencing, controlling, or competing with others.

The word does not appear in standard dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster's and Cambridge; thus it appears to be coined by Tupes and Christal or some earlier researcher.


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