Personality

ARTICLE REVIEWED - THREE : Hartshorne, J., 2010. How Birth Order Affects Your Personality. Scientific American Mind. [online] Available at: [Accessed 18 Feb. 2016]. Joshua Hartshorne, a developmental psychologist from Harvard, published his article ‘How Birth Order Affects Your Personality’ in 2010, to present the argument that birth order affects an individual’s intelligence and personality. Hartshorn conducted this study as a result of his own research into the connection between birth order…

The Studies of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder, often acronymed as “BPD”, is a personality disorder that ordinarily affects your moods, relationships, self-image, and behavior. It is not very well known, however it is a very common disorder. When scientists first started researching this disorder, the name was derived from the early thought that BPD was the “borderline” between psychosis and neurosis. The name Borderline Personality Disorder was meant to…

This paper discusses the results of the Myers-Briggs Four-letter Type personality test as it pertains to my personal results. The results of the test indicated that my four-letter personality type is ENTJ, which stands for Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging. The test also indicated that I have marginal or no preference of extraversion over introversion. There was also an indication of a slight preference of intuition over sensing. In addition, I have a slight preference of…

Personality types have been measured from ancient days to present. There have been many tools and techniques developed. The frequently used and easiest technique has been The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (Capraro and Capraro, 2002 The MBTI, based on Carl Jung's theory of human personality, was constructed by Isabel Myers in 1962. It was developed for personality assessment and classifying individuals into one of the sixteen possible personality types Vicky, T., & Tan Ngoh, T. (1999).…

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…

“It is fashionable to say that the individual is unique” (1). Thus Isabel Briggs Myers begins her book Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type. Truly, the world has no duplicates of people, and each person differs from any other. However one cannot too readily assume that complete diversity and chaos exists within the sphere of human personality. Indeed, Isabel Briggs Myers herself, along with her mother, found inspiration from Carl Jung 's book Psychological Types, which outlined that…

When I take a personality test, they were never accurate until now. The Myers Briggs test was right on point for my assessment, actually I never thought of the reason why I am quick to think before I react, or be so “cold” when it came down to decision making. I always thought I was someone who wouldn’t attract people to me but, from this test it opened my eyes that I do attract more people to me before I even talked to them. Sometimes when I need to get a point across I use accurate data, or…

Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, and self-image and is described as one of the most complicated and serious problems that tends to confront. It is noted that Adolph Stern first proposed the term “Borderline Personality” to the United States in 1938. He best described a group of patients who did not fit into the psychotic or into a psychoneurotic group by introducing the term…

My scores on the five dimensions of my personality were very straightforward and only ranged a little. In the extroversion or surgency category I scored relatively high. This means my score of 38 was in the top 30%. On the contrary, in the agreeableness or friendliness I scored relatively low with a 22. Since I was relatively low, so I scored in the bottom 30%. For the last three factors, which are conscientiousness or dependability, neuroticism, and openness or intellect, I scored somewhere in…

Everyone has their own unique and special personality and your personality can characterize you as an individual, but what if you had a chink in your chain so to speak and your personality was not all rainbows and cupcakes. Your personality was more dark and gray and seem like your individuality does not quite match up to how you are constantly feeling. You feel impulsive, chronically unstable with all of your emotions or you have a hard time dealing with your own self-image. Well, all of…