A Swedish singer and songwriter name Lykke Li once self-proclaimed that “I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers to my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.” Now Lykke Li is a singer and songwriter that, up until it came time for me to write this paper, I had no clue who she was. But the essence of her quote is so bona fide that it can almost pertain to any person when their type of personality enters their mind. Personality is the sum of all experiences that we as people have encountered over certain periods of life and, for me, taking this personality quiz was somewhat eye opening how certain experiences and how my childhood life and personality translates into the descriptions that pull up on these questionnaires.
Before completing these questionnaires, I had a generic baseline test on 5 basic questions about personality in my notebook, which at the time I did not take very seriously. One of the main things that seized my attention out of our first baseline that my test is that I scored myself as a 5 or 6 (1=low, 7=high). When answering this question in class, I considered myself as a shy and reserved person when I am in class and moderately outgoing outside of class. Although, even when I am outside of class I am not “high strung” or “seeking attention”,
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My score in this specific field came as another surprise to me as well, especially since I scored so low in openness to experience and intellect field. Before taking this questionnaire, I considered myself decently creative, most likely at the 50th percentile (scored myself as a 4 on the 1-7 scale), although I know I thrive and take over in system environments. But, to my surprise, I scored in the lower 4th percentile of this
Although I am at times shy and not talkative, I am not a complete introvert. One of the questions they asked on the test was that am I outgoing or sociable. I strongly disagree because I work 60 hours a week and I go to campus four times a week. For five days in a week, I work the night shift, 12 hours straight. Therefore, I do not have the time to be outgoing. Once again, it is not because I don’t want to, it’s because I can’t be outgoing, like how I used to. I do enjoy being with people, participating in social gatherings, and I have full of energy. There are a lot of factors when it comes to this
I suppose many of us would stumble on the question. In fact, it is really very difficult to define Personality in the real sense. Day and night, we see people all around us. We meet them; we talk to them; we discuss with them and share our feelings with many of them. But in spite of all these we sometimes fail to judge the personality of the person right in front of us.
Personality predispositions can determine levels of extraversion, which determine the levels to which one seeks social support, thus determining positive affect. Similarly, personality predispositions can determine levels of neuroticism that may influence one’s style of coping in the face of both positive and negative external factors which can determine negative affect (Diener, 1996). Happiness, a core aspect of positive subjective wellbeing, involves maintaining a superior level of positive affect in comparison to negative effect, based on specific positive or negative emotions linked to the recent experiences in one’s life (Emmons & Diener, 1985). Positive emotions such as joy and pride must trump negative emotions such as frustration and sadness in the recent past or present in order for an individual to feel happy. Life satisfaction builds on this and is a cognitive valuation of the quality of an individual’s experiences as a sum throughout their entire life (Emmons & Diener, 1985). Individual personality traits have been found to influence the different patterns and levels of life satisfaction, positive and negative affects and simply general, overall happiness (McCrae, 1983).
For extraversion, I scored a 37, which is average. It is true, I am neither a chatterbox or reserved, because there are those days when I am enthusiastic or low-key. I scored low on activity level, which I found interesting, because I like to stay busy and active. As for neuroticism, I scored low at 25, thankfully. I was quite worried about my result of this factor, because no one wants to be described as neurotic. I would describe myself as relatively calm and composed, but there are some days I am stressed. For anxiety, self-consciousness, and vulnerability I scored an average, which would explain my stressful days. The other facets, anger, depression, and immoderation I scored low. Which is good, meaning I’m not neurotic. Thirdly, for consciousness I scored a high of 68, which I am very pleased about. For the reason that it said I have clear goals and determination, which I cannot argue with that. My agreeableness is lower than I expected of 23. I know I try to be considerate of others, but from the results, my answers to the questions resulted otherwise. At least for sympathy, cooperation, and trust I scored an average. Lastly for openness I scored a low of 4, which was alarming to me, because the number was a single digit number. Though I do find myself preferring plain and simple things, however it was upsetting that I scored low on adventurousness for someone who likes to
In the vast and detailed world of psychology, there are a variety of different tests you can participate in. For example, you can participate in aptitude, verbal or numerical reasoning, and psychometric tests. These tests assess on a variety of different situations such as: behaviors, abilities and intelligence. Personality tests, a common and favored test, measure things such as: behavioral style, opinions, motivators, personal values and career interests. Most often, people complain or disagree with the score of some areas on their personality test; however, there are no right or wrong answers. After completing this personality test and reviewing the results, I found that the overall scoring accurately described me in most areas. The Big Five Personality test scores in five different areas involving openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
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Trait approach covers the big five personality traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. These five traits have been identified as the most identifiable personality traits, even across cultures and societies. According to McCrae, Costa, and Busch’s (1986) study on personality system comprehensiveness, the big five personality model included the five traits most identified with by individuals asked to describe themselves and others. I found this segment of the class especially intriguing as it helped me not only learn so much about myself, but also take a deeper look into the personality of my family, peers, and even strangers. I am also more conscious of how I self-monitor my personality traits. For example, I am very much so an introverted person but at times I try to be extroverted based off the environment. In highly social environments, I consciously smile and try to talk to people because I want to be perceived in a favorable light, not actually because I feel the need to be sociable. In other words, I don’t want to be perceived as odd. I believe I developed this form of self-monitoring because when I am introverted at social events people will constantly ask me if I’m ok since I’m quiet, which makes me uncomfortable as they make me the focus. Being the center of attention makes me anxious, and therefore to prevent that I have developed being a fake-extrovert to avoid it. This exemplified how I apply self-monitoring to my everyday life. Trait approach gave me insight into how to identify vastly accepted personality traits, as well as, how each of these traits can be influenced and
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that test was my personality type which is (ISTJ) Introvert, Sensing, Thinking and Judging. I
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