Personality

model of personality underlie human behavior. The behaviors are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. I scored a 12 in extraversion and agreeable, a 13 in conscientiousness and emotional stability, and a 7 in openness to experiences. Personality Insights extract and analyze personality attributes to help discover actionable insights about people and entities, and in turn guides end users to highly personalized interactions. Personality…

The MMPI-2 is another well-known and highly used personality test. As the original MMPI was published in 1943 and the first update was not released until 1989, there was some controversy. Therefore, the MMPI-2 had to be revised carefully in order to maintain the tests supremacy among the top personality tests. MMPI-2 was designed to primarily focus on the assessment of adults, but also is effective for adolescents (Archer, 2014). The authors had several goals and ideas they wanted to focus…

Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by on ongoing distrust for other people based on the unsupported belief that people are out to get them by tying to trick, harm, or exploit them. The symptoms of this disorder can include hostile and jealous behavior, unwillingness to release personal information in fear it will be used against them and they may display unwarranted counterattacks in response to compliments and social interaction. Signs and symptoms may also include controlling and…

The Neurotic Personality Trait Definition Neuroticism is one of the five personality traits associated with the Five Factor Model of personality. This model of personality also includes the traits openness-to-experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness. Neuroticism describes a personality trait in which the person possessing the trait may be more likely to voice feelings of anxiety and often fluctuates emotionally (Vitterso & Nilsen, 2002). According to McCrae and Sutin,…

analyze the underlying reasons as to why Katniss is able to become the heroic girl from District 12, psychologists share the unconscious reasons as to why people have the personalities that they do. Through the four major personality traits, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Trait, and Social Cognitive, scientists have identified the personalities that help distinguish the reasons why Katniss…

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states. The people of the United States are more commonly diagnosed with DID than those of other countries, women are also more affected than men by a 10:1 ratio. The population of people who suffer from this specific mental disorder usually suffered a form of trauma in their life; the personalities are developed as a coping mechanism to deal…

Narcissistic personality disorder is a rare, complex mental disorder. From Mayo clinic the symptoms include Believing your better than others, being obsessed with power, success and attractiveness. Failing to see other’s emotions, setting unrealistic goals and easily being hurt or rejected. The combination creates an easily angered aggressive, person who only cares about themselves. Saber is an Narcissistic, which he picked up from his mother. You can see his Narcissism in three main symptoms…

(a) Personality refers to the distinctive character and property among people. (b) MBTI personality theory has four preferences that help to improve our personality in human relationships and develop leadership skills and choose the right career. Extroversion is generally expressed as the “social,” the energy is focused outside and very sensitive to others and is an impulsive personality character. Introversion is an introspective nature, the energy is focused inside and tends to concern the…

Now that I have reported the findings of the personality inventories, I will explain these findings as each inventory goes into detail about what the results mean in relation to my personality. To begin with the first inventory, the MBTI, my results concluded my personal four-letter profile to be INFJ/P. Each letter signifies one of two traits in four categories. There are numerous descriptions for each of the traits, but I am going to summarize those that I consider are the most relevant. The…

(textbook, p. 329), the category of personality disorders is a relatively new field of study in psychology. As a result, there is a considerable amount of discrepancy and controversy over its classification and diagnostic criteria. The current discrete DSM-5 Model for personality disorders identifies individuals as either having a personality disorder or not having the disorder, leaving no room in between these two categories despite one’s varied and unique personality traits. However, there is…