Openness to experience

The Leadership Scale for Sports (LLS) (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980) as described previously, consist of 40 items that measure five types of leader behavior styles. The LLS scale is made up of 40 items that are divided into 5 subscales. 13 items refer to Training and Instruction, 9 items to Democratic Behavior, 5 items to Autocratic Behavior, 8 items to Social Support, and 5 items to Positive Feedback. These 40 items are answered on a 5 point Likert scale. Response categories are: always, often,…

Expressing your creativity (art or dancing), and mostly feeling that you’re growing as an individual. 3. OWN EXPERIENCE OF HOW MY COMMUNICATION WAS INFLUENCED BY EACH LEVEL OF MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS. 1) PHYSIOLOGICAL/SURVIVAL NEEDS a) We need proper food for instance breakfast so that we can have energy to make it easier for you to communicate with people.…

The Freeman-Gravitas Prescriptive Executive Coaching Multi-Rater Assessment (FG-PEC; Gavita, et al., 2012). FG-PEC is a multi-rater measure (self-rating, subordinate, superior, colleague and client rating) of managerial skills relevant for the prescriptive executive coaching process, based on the cognitive behavioral approach to coaching. It has 50 items based on five domains relevant to managerial competencies: behavior, emotion, thoughts, situations, and socio-cultural context. The instrument…

1. Despite the broadening of psychodynamic theorizations, there are five major propositions that psychodynamic psychotherapists generally follow. The most central of these five is the unconscious; a postulation that is more developed and specific than any other postulation that can be found in current cognitive or social psychology (Westen, 1998; Bargh & Morsella, 2008). Primarily pursued by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and then Johann Freidrich Herbart (1776-1841), the theory of…

Marry Anne Warren’s infamous personhood argument lists 5 essential traits in order to be considered a person. These traits are: i. consciousness and capacity to feel pain, ii. reasoning, iii. self-motivated, iv. capacity to communicate, and v. presence of self-concept and self awareness. Warren continues to argue in favour that one is considered person if they possess at least one of these traits, for if they do not, they cannot be considered a person. It is clear that Warren is for the practice…

Personality indicators or assessments can be an eye opener for a person who is not completely knowledgeable or truthful about his or her own personality traits. Personalities do tend to differ based on the various things such as the time of the week, time of the day, awareness, and even physical appearances. Personally, I feel my personality is acceptable and can improve, but with the help of a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and a Big Five Personality Model, I have a new form of identity for myself…

I have always wondered who I am. I figured that my beliefs were justified by my experiences, but I realized that I have not really had an understanding of what those experiences were. Through the help of psychology, I have learned a lot about myself and what my motives are. My comprehension of the science of how my brain works, why I stress over certain things and how my personality has evolved has improved drastically. I aspire to have the knowledge that I am more than my conscious…

Introduction Anne-Marie Slaughter is President and CEO of New America and this essay is adapted from her forthcoming book, “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.” Slaughter describes the international system as a web and the world as networks instead of states with boundaries. The main claim of her essay is to promote the United States to adopt a grand strategy of building and maintaining an open international order based on three pillars: open societies,…

My three engagement activities of service, leadership and internship complemented each other very well, because all three of my experiences taught me what it meant to be a well-rounded leader. Throughout my entire engagement within the program it was very surprising to see many connections overlap within each activity. The first one I realized that I had practiced with all three activities was social engagement, me practicing social engagement was included in all three of my activities by me…

Unfortunately because of the fall the patient suffered small bruise in the forehead but there was no bone injury. • Analyse and briefly describe what the experience meant to you Based on my analysis, the situation can be prevented if the patient was assessed properly and if there was a good communication between the nurse and the patient. Furthermore, the experience I encountered is also a mind opening to me that nurses should not be task oriented but rather patient centred (Peate, Wilkd, &…