Write about what each of the four personality factors mean and why do you think you have got that particular score for each factor. Furthermore, you would need to research and findout which personality theory, this test is similar to, e.g., Kelly, Cattell

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Psychology Assignment 4

Write about what each of the four personality factors mean and why do you think you have got that particular score for each factor. Furthermore, you would need to research and findout which personality theory, this test is similar to, e.g., Kelly, Cattell, Roger, or others.

26 April 2010

        

        Personality of people is something that we describe and assess almost every day and it concerns the most important parts of an individual’s psychological life. While there are many different types of personality theories have been proposed over the years. To start studying the theories, we first have to clearly understand what personality means. So what is personality? Given that the word “personality” was originally found and derived from the Latin word “persona” and means “mask”. To put in the study of personality, it refers to the study of “masks” that people wear. These are the personas that people demonstrated and also the inner parts of psychological experience which we collectively call our “self”. Warren & Carmichael have suggested a more vivid definition of personality: Personality is the entire mental organization of a human being at any stage of his development. It embraces every phase of human character: intellect, temperament, skill, morality, and every attitude that has been built up in the course of one's life. (Warren & Carmichael, 1930, p. 333). In this paper I have taken the 41 personality questionnaires(41Q) which is base on Carl Jung 4 personality indicator: Extroverted vs. Introverted, Sensing vs. Intuitive, Feeling vs. Thinking and Judging vs. Perceiving which reflect mainly on people’s inner personality. Finding out how this questionnaire work and how the questionnaire gives a unique result to individuals. I have compared the differences and similarity of Cattell, Roger and Briggs Myers theories to the 41Q, presenting different methods to find out individual’s personality.

Appendix 1 is the result I received from the 41 personality questionnaire I took which is “based on the four personality indicators originally developed by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung.” (www.41q.com) The four personalities include extroverted-introverted, sensing-intuitive, thinking-feeling and finally judging-perceiving. Extraverted people tend to focus on the outside world they tend to be people that are easy to approach, sociable enjoy attending parties or any form of large social gathering; they are likely to enjoy spending most of their time with people and feel more active and recharged during a social interaction. People that are introverted live in a rather inside self world they are likely to be quiet and peaceful, they would prefer to do activities alone or some a few close friend, they will find socialising rather draining of energy. Sensing and intuition indicate how people process information, in sensing personality they tend to believe in their five senses and see things as what they are, they are more realistic, practical and very aware of their surroundings.  On the other hand intuition people tend to focus on the future and like taking chances; when processing with information they are likely to read between the lines, they are more creative, idealistic and Theoretical person. More of an abstract thinker compared to sensing personality which is more concrete thinkers. Thinking or feeling tells how people make a decision, people that is more of the thinking side will make decision base on facts and being control by their head instead of their hearts, they are very logical, objective and very impersonal which means they live in a very systematic life lacking of emotions. People with feeling personality make decisions based on principles and values allowing their feeling in their heart to speak, they tend to be warm, passionate, caring of others and a romantic person but they also easily get upset by other people’s action.  Finally judging and perceiving personality is about the person’s outwardly displayed. People with judging personality like things to be in order and organised always in need of a plan and pattern to follow, they are the people that is punctual and responsible. Perceiving personality like to keep their options open and be creative with what they do, their adaptation ability is very high, they dislike being in routine office work will not be suitable for them. They also tend to be very relaxed with their life and care free; they also can be much disorganized and also always like a change in their environment.  

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The result I received from the test tells that my personality type is reliable realist which is people that work towards their goal, having a high level of concentration, very thorough, responsible, organizes and dependable. Best suited careers related to a very systematic working style not much to do with creativity for example business executives, administrators and managers, accountants, police, detectives, judges, lawyers and many more. The main reason why I received such result is because I got a fairly high score in sensing and a moderate score in thinking and judging which fall under a very rational, realistic, ...

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