Neuroticism

iv. The promotion of physician resiliency is a major focus for combatting burnout, helping an individual to respond to stress, in a healthy, adaptive way such that personal goals are achieved at minimal psychological and physical cost. Individuals with high resiliency are capable of bouncing back quickly while growing stronger in the process (Epstein & Krasner, 2013). v. Epstein & Krasner (2013) addresses the qualitative research that suggests it is very possible to enhance resiliency, in which…

Psychology covers many interesting areas of study. And psychology is present in our daily lives in so many different ways and because of that it changes many lives. There are two topics that we learned about that I thought were really interesting, to me personally. One topic was the chapter on Sleep – module 9. And the second topic I want to talk about is Improving Memory, which is in module 26: Forgetting, Memory Constructions, and Improving Memory. I know that for many college students like…

In the current age, the job market is filled with cut-throat competition with candidates fighting for an edge over their competitors, it is through an individual holding social and emotional competencies that provide an edge over other candidates. This range of emotional developments are often known as soft skills, examples of which being personality traits, preferences and motivations (Heckman & Kautz, 2012). Through this portfolio I will comprehensively analyse and assess my competencies in…

“Successful leadership means picking the right people for the right assignments and developing them. These followers are not clones of the leader, but are people that have talents that may be dormant or underdeveloped” (Manning & Curtis, 2015, p. 302). Delegation is prioritizing tasks that need to be completed and assigning them to people. The ability to do this effectively is a major responsibility for an effective leader. It is not about getting the chore done, it is about finding the…

Nowadays, procrastination is usually treated as our biggest enemy. According to Piers Steel: A high rate of college students engages in procrastination, many of them consider themselves procrastinators, and nearly a half of them procrastinate consistently and problematically (Piers Steel 65). For college students, “whose academic lives are characterized by frequent deadlines” (Bruce W. Tuckman 1), academic procrastination can be serious for them. Therefore, we need to know why students like to…

Saskia Fletcher Myers Briggs Testing Instrument (MBTI) Wilmington University Myers-Briggs Type Indicator One of the most enduring typological classifications was devised by Jung and has served as the foundation for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Anastasi, 1997).The Myers-Briggs (MBTI) designates one's personality type, based upon a classification scheme, which consists of four basic scales and two types within each scale. Thus, there are sixteen possible Myers-Briggs…

Introduction Until recently, I have been surrounded by ineffective leaders for my entire professional career. Prior to June 2016, I was employed by The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) for eight years. During that time, a common problem for the leadership there was that they severely struggled with motivating subordinates. Turnover was also extremely high, and this was largely due to the ways that the leaders communicated with their followers. After witnessing such extreme…

This psychological approach continues with the supposition that adapting hereditariliy based inclinations and social marking all have a part to play in clarifying the reasons for criminal conduct; i.e, they are not fundamentally unrelated, yet reciprocal. An alternate supposition is that the division of the world into the criminal and the honest is to a great extent an encouraging hallucination. The sorts of criminal cdonduct dissected is violations against property and persons not the more…

In order to understand human behaviour in the workplace we need to not only take a close look at personality differences between individuals but we would also need to understand the different work environments and scenarios effecting employees’ behaviour, motivation and performance. In this respect, both the Trait Approach and the Social Learning Approach have been major contributors. As it will be discussed in this essay, whilst these two approaches differ in their focus, they both acknowledge…

“Although certainly not all individual differences are captured within this model, most stable patterns of thoughts, feelings, needs, and behaviors can be mapped onto Emotional Stability/Neuroticism, Extraversion/Surgency, Openness to Experiences/Intellect/Culture/Imagination, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness.” (Furtner & Rauthmann, 2010 pg.340) The big five are personality dimensions that can clue in leaders as to how well a person will…