The study of personality psychology has given personality psychologists access into the making of a persona, and grants them access to anticipate and comprehend behaviors. Evaluating my life using the various themes, and categories presented by personality psychology all have helped me to gain a better sense of self-understanding on how I have reached to be the person that I am today. Three important personality psychology constructs that have influenced my personality development are the self full-filling prophecy, attachment styles, and identity statuses. Theories and constructs like these continue to help me explore my behaviors and thoughts constantly. The self-fulfilling prophecy, similar to behavioral confirmation can be described
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Anxious-ambivalent, avoidant, and secure. Every attachment style describes a different temperament, and future implications for the child expressing the attachment style. Anxious-ambivalent can be seen in a child who came from a home or homes where caregivers were unstable. Children with anxious-ambivalent attachment styles have a tendency to develop relationships that require a lot of dependency on the other, which eventually drives them away with the intense amount of need. An avoidant attachment style is seen in children who had cold caregivers, and were not very warm or receiving. Children who have an avoidant attachment style tend to be cold, and generally tend to stay away from people. Lastly, a secure attachment style can be seen in children who had authoritative, warm, caring, and stable caregivers. Caregivers also made themselves available to the child. Children with a secure attachment style have the best outlook in the future and in life compared to the other two attachment styles; they tend to be more comfortable in their skin and carry more confidence. They also have healthier relationships in the future. I identify most with a secure-attachment style, as a young child my parents were very warm, met my needs and I grew to trust to that my parents would return if we were separated …show more content…
Growing up I loved helping. In elementary school I helped create a club called the “peace team”, and during recess we would go around our school and pick up trash in order to help keep our schools clean, on weekends we would clean up beaches. I volunteered at the animal humane society down the street from my house when I was ten, I sometimes helped my mom when she worked in a retirement home around the ages of 11 to 17, I have helped tutor my younger cousins when I was in high school, I got a job that helped give direct intervention to children with Autistic spectrum disorder. When out in public and a stranger seems to need help, you can find me assisting them. I love being an aide to others, no matter how hard or simple the situation is, I want to help. I am a lover of people, animals, and nature. Knowing that I am helping make a difference even if in small ways makes it all worth it for me. If I can help make someone or something’s life be better, easier, or more pleasant it was all
Anxious-ambivalent, avoidant, and secure. Every attachment style describes a different temperament, and future implications for the child expressing the attachment style. Anxious-ambivalent can be seen in a child who came from a home or homes where caregivers were unstable. Children with anxious-ambivalent attachment styles have a tendency to develop relationships that require a lot of dependency on the other, which eventually drives them away with the intense amount of need. An avoidant attachment style is seen in children who had cold caregivers, and were not very warm or receiving. Children who have an avoidant attachment style tend to be cold, and generally tend to stay away from people. Lastly, a secure attachment style can be seen in children who had authoritative, warm, caring, and stable caregivers. Caregivers also made themselves available to the child. Children with a secure attachment style have the best outlook in the future and in life compared to the other two attachment styles; they tend to be more comfortable in their skin and carry more confidence. They also have healthier relationships in the future. I identify most with a secure-attachment style, as a young child my parents were very warm, met my needs and I grew to trust to that my parents would return if we were separated …show more content…
Growing up I loved helping. In elementary school I helped create a club called the “peace team”, and during recess we would go around our school and pick up trash in order to help keep our schools clean, on weekends we would clean up beaches. I volunteered at the animal humane society down the street from my house when I was ten, I sometimes helped my mom when she worked in a retirement home around the ages of 11 to 17, I have helped tutor my younger cousins when I was in high school, I got a job that helped give direct intervention to children with Autistic spectrum disorder. When out in public and a stranger seems to need help, you can find me assisting them. I love being an aide to others, no matter how hard or simple the situation is, I want to help. I am a lover of people, animals, and nature. Knowing that I am helping make a difference even if in small ways makes it all worth it for me. If I can help make someone or something’s life be better, easier, or more pleasant it was all