Personality psychology

so many different personalities in the world, and it would be extremely boring if we all acted the same. “Every society and social group has values, experiences, and understandings that are widely shaped among members but may not be endorsed by those outside of the culture or group” (Wood, 2016, p.54). This is your personal identity, which is how you choose to live your life and what you stand for. Your identity can be shared closely with other people. However, your personality is uniquely your…

utmost regard and always inspired me to tell the truth regardless of the circumstances that it may bring because in the end, according to my grandma, “the truth shall set you free.” Therefore, honesty was definitely one of my grandma’s greatest personality traits as she spoke the truth even when the truth meant that she would be disadvantaged in some way or another. My grandma said that “telling the truth is the right thing to do and therefore everyone should do it but very few actually do.”…

matched my personality. With people having different types of personalities, there is going to be different types of leadership. My four letter personality type is ESFJ. This is a sensing type and stands for: extraverted feeling with sensing. Those four letters explain that my personality involves my feelings to be dominant and extraverted, where as my sensing is supplementary and introverted. In general, people with ESFJ personalities’ are conscious and collaborative. ESFJ personalities…

al. (2007) found that self-efficacy provided greater incremental validity, or value added, when the complexity of the relevant job or task was low, rather than when it was medium or high. They also found that when individual variables, such as personality, ability, and job/task experiences, where not held constant, self-efficacy provided diminished predictive validity. Their study of…

The purpose of this project is to utilize the results generated by the Myers-Briggs Personality assessment to obtain my personality type and evaluate the validity of the results. Given the personality type of ESFJ with a temperament of SJ, I am given the title “The Caregiver” meaning I am externally motivated with a desire to help others. Being an extrovert, I thrive in social environments. As an ESFJ, facts and details are imperative to properly understand and execute directions. I often react…

behavior test are very useful. We were assigned to take the Employee Personality inventory exercise. This exercise examines what traits the behavior exhibits. It decides what behavior is dominate, the communication style, leadership style, and the strengths and weaknesses of the dominate behavior. I also went ahead and took a few more tests to get a well-rounded opinion of my personality style. According to the Employee Personality…

She was such a lovely friend I was depressed that I didn’t get her number before she left. There are many types of people in this world. Every person with their own unique set of personalities. Throughout our lives we witness many bad and great personalities clashing with each other. Knowing this, one might ponder who are the best types of friends? Different friends will fulfill your different needs. Although these may vary from person to person, the friend who you shared your childhood with,…

The MBTI And The Horoscope Since we behave based on our personality, do we think about the method to figure out our personality? There are two theories, which help people’s personalities: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Horoscope. The origins of these two systems are totally different. Instead of test of the MBTI, the way that the Horoscope uses is simple according to people’s birthday. Even though there are differences between Myer-Briggs Type Indicator and the Horoscope, both…

delved into the MBTI inventory, I gained great insight as to what the personality preferences meant and how I can use them in my favor throughout my life. The biggest relief for me was learning that no one personality type is better than the other. It is all a matter of preferences and proclivities. In my mind, the word “introvert” had a negative connotation to it. It represented a deficiency in something. It was more like a personality trait that is inadequately lacking in…

-According to the Myers-Briggs type personality test, my type is ENFJ (34% Extravert, 9% Intuitive, 34% Feeling, and 12% Judging). The results showed that I have a moderate preference of extraversion over introversion, a slight preference of intuition over sensing, a moderate preference of feeling over thinking, and a slight preference of judging over perceiving. However, I am not sure how accurate these results are. For example, my results showed I have a moderate preference of extraversion…