Personality is a unique concept that is constantly changing. I have always assumed that I knew a lot about my personality, but I have been able to dig a lot deeper in the process of writing this paper. I have applied Alfred Adler’s, Abraham Maslow’s, and Carl Jung’s personality theories to my own personality. In the process of doing so, I have learned a lot about myself and about the way that other people around me view my personality.
According to Alfred Adler, each individual develops superiority in a unique way. This is called our style of life. There are four primary types of styles of life. These include the ruling type, the getting type, the avoiding type, and the socially useful type. I associate myself with the socially useful …show more content…
He believes that we are constantly working to fulfill our needs and once one need is satisfied, it is replaced by the need to fulfill another. We are constantly moving towards the end goal of happiness and satisfaction in our lives. I relate this belief to myself. I feel like I am making an effort to continue growing as a person each day. We all want to be happy.
Maslow created the hierarchy of needs which includes the physiological needs, safety needs, belonging and love needs, self-esteem needs, and finally, the self-actualization needs. Once all of these needs have been satisfied, a person can start working on fulfilling the self-actualization needs. This is considered the “desire to fulfill one’s highest potential” (Engler, 2009, p. …show more content…
Extraversion is defined as “an attitude in which the psyche is oriented outward to the objective world. The extravert tends to be more comfortable with the outer world of people and things. The introvert is more comfortable with the inner world of concepts and ideas” (Engler, 2009, p. 78).
I would describe myself as an introvert. I tend to be quiet instead of sociable, intellectual, calm, and thoughtful. However, I don’t have trouble getting along with others, I’m not artistic, and I don’t think I am impractical. I think that some days I am somewhere in middle of extraversion and introversion, which I don’t think is a bad thing. Engler states, “An individual’s habitual conscious attitude is either introverted or extraverted, but the other attitude is also present, although it may be undeveloped and mostly unconscious” (Engler, 2009, p.
According to Alfred Adler, each individual develops superiority in a unique way. This is called our style of life. There are four primary types of styles of life. These include the ruling type, the getting type, the avoiding type, and the socially useful type. I associate myself with the socially useful …show more content…
He believes that we are constantly working to fulfill our needs and once one need is satisfied, it is replaced by the need to fulfill another. We are constantly moving towards the end goal of happiness and satisfaction in our lives. I relate this belief to myself. I feel like I am making an effort to continue growing as a person each day. We all want to be happy.
Maslow created the hierarchy of needs which includes the physiological needs, safety needs, belonging and love needs, self-esteem needs, and finally, the self-actualization needs. Once all of these needs have been satisfied, a person can start working on fulfilling the self-actualization needs. This is considered the “desire to fulfill one’s highest potential” (Engler, 2009, p. …show more content…
Extraversion is defined as “an attitude in which the psyche is oriented outward to the objective world. The extravert tends to be more comfortable with the outer world of people and things. The introvert is more comfortable with the inner world of concepts and ideas” (Engler, 2009, p. 78).
I would describe myself as an introvert. I tend to be quiet instead of sociable, intellectual, calm, and thoughtful. However, I don’t have trouble getting along with others, I’m not artistic, and I don’t think I am impractical. I think that some days I am somewhere in middle of extraversion and introversion, which I don’t think is a bad thing. Engler states, “An individual’s habitual conscious attitude is either introverted or extraverted, but the other attitude is also present, although it may be undeveloped and mostly unconscious” (Engler, 2009, p.