Cult of personality

The article that I chose for this week’s writing assignment is a study that seeks to understand how humor styles and well-being are related while also tying in the importance of social relationships and gender. Research has shown that humor in individuals may be linked to a greater resistance to stress and depression as well as better mood and self-esteem. “Studies have also found that humor may be associated with greater physical well-being, including better immune functioning and pain…

The Meyers Briggs Personality test is in-depth introspective psychological questionnaire designed to understand personality types and how people perceive the world and make decisions. There are sixteen (16) personality types and four (4) temperaments. Many use the Myers Briggs Personality test to as a way of understanding themselves and their commonalities and differences with other people especially in the work place. They Meyers-Briggs Personality Test described my personality as Extraverted…

“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is an arrangement of the innate needs that motivate behavior (LN, Personality Theory). I think it took till now in my life for me to understand what it means to have self-actualization. I now know that I need to do to live up to the man I want to become. I need to surround myself with positive people that lift me up instead…

Personality Type A wide variety of people with differing personalities use texting to communicate every day. In the 1920’s Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers created the Myers-Briggs Personality Test to determine some of the differing traits that make up human personalities. Although the test cannot always predict how a person will act, it does provide insight into a person’s behavior. The test itself is based loosely on Carl Gustav Jung, the father of analytical psychology’s theory…

Everyday, people go through events in their lives that shape and mold them to the individuals that they are. In most cases, those events are negative and in others positive. Regarding the situation that you find yourself in, the process can be for the greater good. In my case, my outcome was positive and beneficial. The outcome was for the greater good because in the end I became a more positive person, I eventually became comfortable with who I am, and beneficial because I figured out that I…

bottled up inside. As caretakers, ESFJ’s believe there is a lot wrong with the immediate environment. They are not paranoid, just hyper-vigilant. Their personality type allows them to loosen up and be humorous, such as teasing around, which I find enjoyment in Although, I find that this personality type identifies…

Disorder, DID for short, is also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. It is a way of creating different personalities to deal with anxiety or trauma from a past event or experience. DID can mess with the mind and change who you are. Everyone acts divergent when they are not in their normal setting. People may be loud and wild with peers and more enclosed and quiet around family members but that doesn’t necessarily mean they have that personality disorder (Meyers, 2014). A few ways to…

unconscious processes in normal and neurotic behavior. He suggested the existence of an unconscious element in the mind. This would then influence consciousness and conflicts in various sets of forces. Freud states that there are three elements of personality, ID, superego, and ego. ID is driven by basic wants and needs; these are usually instinctual such as hunger, thirst, and sexual intercourse. Superego is driven by the morality principle with the morality of higher thought and action.…

Johnson et al. conducted a longitudinal study to explore the idea that personality disorders during adolescence are associated with high-risk, violent behavior during adolescence and early adulthood. A sample of 717 youths from upstate New York were interviewed to assess for Axis I and II personality disorders and violent behavior (Johnson et al.) The results shows that adolescences with a greater number of DSM-IV personality disorder symptoms were more likely than others to commit violent…

me as having a slight preference of introversion over extroversion, making up about 19% of my personality. (Humanmetrics.) The first criterion, from my point of view, fits me completely if I had to describe my…