Enneagram of Personality

people’s lives, there is an endurance of external and internal stressors. In my personal life, I feel like I am experiencing greater than normal levels of stress. In my professional career, I am working in a stressful environment with strong personalities. Working in an intensive care unit with critical patients is demanding, let alone the drama surrounding the patients and the staff members as well. This is an example of an external stressor. An external stressor includes anything from…

Introduction I have been always very sceptical about personalities tests, seeing them as another form of horoscope or fortune cookies which establish a set of vague of personalities descriptions. Although I was aware that Myers Briggs personality test are used by companies all over the world, I knew that they lack scientific credibility. Despite these doubts I have approached the Module 4 Group Assignment with positive and enthusiastic attitude. Surprisingly my Myers Briggs test turned out…

Myers-Briggs Personality Test is designed to help people understand more about themselves and their personality type. Myers used Jung’s theory of psychological types as an approach to classify personality types into 4-letter code which are introversion (I) or Extraversion (E), Intuition (N) or Sensing (S), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) (“16Personalities”). There are 16 different personalities that can be described based on the combination of these 4-letter code…

What is personality? Well, according to the book its states that “Personality is a stable set of characteristics and tendencies that determine those commonalities and differences in the psychological behavior (thoughts, feelings, and actions) of people that have continuity in time and that may or may not be easily understood in terms of the social and biological pressures of the immediate situation alone” (1972, p. 9). There are also four main approaches to personality and they are called:…

rest of my life. My personality craves challenges and I am not be satisfied unless I push myself. While working at the medical center I knew I wanted more for myself but did not know there was a reason. An assessment I took about my personality gave me insight into the reason I felt this way. Answering personality questions about myself on a website brought up my personality type. I found myself to be extraverted, intuitive, feeling and prospecting. According to this personality profile, I…

Introduction Every individual has their own unique personality. According to Vijendran (2012), our own unique personality, consequently provides us with a unique view on the world. The British Psychological Society (2011) provides that the ups and downs of life, in essence, life experiences, impact greatly on our personalities. In this regard, life experiences exist in the background of our lives even in adulthood. Another key factor that impacts on personality is the environment or setting…

popular and used personality tests out currently. Of course, Jung did not create it, but it was built off of his original personality theories. The idea of personality typologies originated with Jung and was adopted by many other theorists and amended to fit their personal opinions. Some of the major personality perspectives are type theories, trait theories, psychodynamic theories, behavioral theories and humanist theories. Type theories claim that there are a specific amount of personality…

2009). Everyone will agree that is an immense amount of time waiting in line. Waiting in line, there are three different personality types that tend to emerge. We can draw certain conclusions from these three different personality types. We will look at type A the aggressive, type B the passive-aggressive, and type C the passive that shows signs of anxiety. The first personality type is the most noticeable standing in line. The aggressive type shows signs of annoyance and aggravation. They will…

assessments such as the MYERS BRIGGS, True Colors, Values Game, Eureka as well as Strength Quest revealed unique qualities that I often times overlook in my persona. These different assessments contributed to a deeper understanding of my skills and personality. In what follows, I discuss my reactions to the different career assessments that were presented during our class. Assessments Strength Quest. As I went over my Strength Quest, it felt as if I was reading a horoscope. When I shared my…

Each individual has a unique set of personality traits that determines how they behave, solve problems and interact with others. Understanding these traits can help each individual have more self-knowledge and by doing so increasing personal success. Learning about our personality type and the type of others, makes us understand why people react differently in different situations; it also least us observe that we are predisposed to certain specific abilities and inclinations. According to Dr.…