today, the global traits of personality are commonly known as the big five. the big five traits are most important for getting an abstract, theoretical understanding of the big, overarching domains of personality, and in understanding how different traits of personality relate to each other and how different research findings relate to each other. the big-five are important for understanding and interpreting an individual's personality profile mainly in getting a broad overview of their personality make-up at the highest level of personality organization. however, it is still the scores on the more specific primary traits that define the rich, unique personality make-up of any individual. these more-numerous primary traits have repeatedly been found to be the most powerful in predicting and understanding the complexity of actual daily behavior (ashton, 1998; goldberg, 1999; mershon & gorsuch, 1988; paunonen & ashton, 2001).