Personality Theory Project: Personal Characteristics

Personality Theory Project
I chose to take a self-objective personality assessment on Outofservice.com to analyze my own personality traits. A series of 60 questions were asked for to me to rate my behavior a scale of 1 through 5 to determine my personality. Questions ranged from, how I am at parties to how much I care for others. The website uses the Five-Factor Model to understand the way people’s personalities differ from one another’s, the same model used in general psychology. I was given a percent and a brief description on my behavior in the traits of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Even though they are many more personality traits, each individual lies somewhere on the spectrum of these five

Moving to a different school and town was culture shocking to say the least. Having to pack up and leave your home town was difficult to do during high school. Grand Rapids is a very big city compared to the small town feel I was used to. Going from knowing everyone in your grocery store to not recognizing anyone wherever you go. This experience had me go into depression. I started getting very sad at home and at school, I didn’t ever want to go out of the house and started to express my anger and emotion onto my family. This is why I can see how my Neuroticism score was so high compared to my other scores. I wear my emotions and heart on my sleeve and sometimes it gets the best of me. Thankfully, I am very social, I make friends easily and love to be around people. I started to realize how I really was and had to get back to being my talkative myself. I became more outgoing and tried harder to impress my new friends. I bought new cloths, wore my hair differently, and my vocabulary changed to suit how they talked. My Extraversion rating was the highest out of all my traits, but I am easily persuaded on how I should act because of who I am

This theory is adapted by an induvial by watching others. I’ve learned pretty much everything through my friends and family to not know how to fully think on my own yet. Cognitive-Social Theory focuses on Albert Bandura's two main points of Reciprocal determinism and Self-efficacy. Reciprocal determinism is when our personality is shaped by interaction among cognitive factors, behavior, and environment. This can happen in three ways by: our friends influencing us, how we interpret and react to events, and situations to which we interact. I am totally deceptible of peer pressure and easily influenced, coming to a new school and new friends influenced a lot of my decisions. My new friends influenced my clothing choice to a more “preppy” expensive style. I started to listen to country music, care about makeup, and became a lot more girly due to my fashionable down-to-earth friends of mine. Also, our personalities shape how we interpret and react to events. Because I tend to very anxious, I help sometimes my situations with a lot of high stress because I get very stressed out quickly. Lastly, our personalities help create situations to which we interact, we often treat others on how they treat us by teaching them how to treat us. Because we usually learn how to treat other by how we’re acting, this should always be a common reminder for us to observe how we are behaving. While Self-efficacy is a person's